Misc. Links for Writers

Links for Writers

For a few weeks now I’ve been collecting interesting blog posts and other sites as I find them to share on the weekends as Bookmarkable! links. However, there is so much good information and writing that comes our way each day through inboxes and feed readers and Twitter and Facebook that I am going to …

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Instead of reading this post, you could be writing

too many choices

This morning I had finished my morning pages, replied to emails and blog comments and bookmarked new blog posts for later reading (I’m loving the Read It Later Firefox add-on), and sat down to do 30 minutes of motivational reading before plunging into my writing project. I opened Sage Cohen’s The Productive Writer to chapter …

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Memory List at 47

Since last week’s post about Malcolm Gladwell, I’ve been thinking of ways to remind myself everyone and everything has a story to tell. One terrific idea comes from Jane at youonlyhavetogetthrutoday: write a Memory List. When I first read Jane’s list, I was struck by how many of her memories resonated with my own–the Weekly …

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Bookmarkable!

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Writing contests are always fun, and none more so than Writer Unboxed’s latest “Hooks for Books” contest that asks for a single “hook” sentence in the style of Mary Stewart. Alexandra Sokoloff had an interesting and useful post recently on creating ordinary and special worlds in fiction, using films as a way to understand how …

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