Writing Roundup
I decided to add some categories this week to make it easier for you to find your favorite links. Let me know if you like it better this way, or if the hodge podge put together as I found a good resource worked better for you. Also let me know if there are any specific tips you’d like me to be on the lookout for each week.
Happy writing!
Fiction
Gone Too Deep
Rachel Vincent knows how to give enough details about her writing process to whet readers’ appetites. In this post, she says that one of her characters is going through hard time. Her readers (including me) have posted comments about how they can’t wait to find out what she’s talking about. In her blog, Vincent goes behind the scenes just enough, unlike J.R. Ward, whose insider’s guide to her Black Dagger Brotherhood series was too much behind-the-scenes for a lot of readers.
Prop Up Your Sagging Plot Middles
The Blood-Red Pencil does it again. How many of us have wonderful beginnings and endings for our WIPs and ideas, but no idea how we will flail through the middle of the story?
Freelancing
Finances for Full-Time Freelancers
The move from full-time employment to full-time freelancing will change the way you manage your finances drastically. Not knowing when or if you’ll get another paycheck can be stressful. Jenny Cromie gives tips to help you prepare financially so that you will be able to make it on your own. Mary Richards would be so proud.
Create a Freelance Marketing Plan and Campaign
Jennifer Mattern provides some good tips on marketing your freelance business.
Media News
Why Teach Journalism if Newspapers Are Dying?
A journalism professor sent a question to Salon.com questioning his very reason for being. Cary Tennis provided a response that should give us all hope. Things may look bad now, but we will survive and thrive as long as we keep our core skills.
Longevity in the Evolving Newsroom
Continuing the message of hope, Mediabistro gives real examples of how to adapt to the changing times for the news profession.
General Writing Info
Effect/Affect
Do you struggle with which effect is correct when you’re writing? This post might have the trick that will help you.
Doing Research
Tiffany Colter gives three very good reasons for doing your research.
The Perils of Book Writing
Does writing make you fat? How do you deal with the war between keeping your butt in the chair and ensuring that your butt still fits in the chair? As part of her month-long book tour, Christina Katz shares her experiences with her lack of activity while writing her first book.
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