Blogger’s Block
It amazes me how I seem to stumble across exactly the words I need to read when I need to read them. I’ve been struggling to come up with topics for both this blog and my pop culture blog, and then this post about breaking through blogger’s block shows up in my inbox. Amazing!

Does Your Story Have Legs?
After pushing the ZZ Top song out of my head, I read this post and got a great idea for dealing with loss of momentum on my stories. (Come back Saturday for more on my own loss of motivation.) Instead of struggling to fill the screen with words, any words, why not set the story aside in a Story Stems folder and begin work on something else. Familiarity breeds contempt, after all, so perhaps a little distance is what you need when hit with writer’s block.

Top Five Things to Look for In Editing Your Rough Draft
Editing and revising can be daunting tasks. Published author Camy Tang provides some good tips to start you along the process. As someone who worked as an editor on a magazine for a number of years, I support all of her suggestions wholeheartedly. In fact, her suggestion to do a find and replace for passive verbs works well for a lot of cleanup, say removing extra spacebar spaces or tabs, the bane of the copyeditor’s existence.

Five Reasons You Should Be Tweeting
You may have noticed that I have added Twitter to my blog. You may also have noticed that I’m not in the habit of using it very regularly. After reading Angela’s post, I am now overcome with Catholic guilt over not tweeting regularly.

The Best Gifts for Writers (PDF)
Women on Writing pulled together a great gift guide for your favorite writer. Use it to buy stuff for writing friends or leave a copy where your partner can find it and get inspiration. Visit their site and sign up for the enewsletter, too.

This week, I’m including main sites. Next week, the focus will be mainly on specific blog posts, though I will include main sites as needed.

Financial Web: http://www.finweb.com
This contains easy-to-understand information useful to anyone beginning a business. It’s been a one-stop shop for me as I have struggled to decide whether to incorporate, whether to have an assumed business name, and whether I need an EIN. (No, yes, no, btw.)

The Incurable Disease of Writing: http://www.missyfrye.net
Missy Frye hosts a nice blog where she shares her own experiences as a writer. The most important posting for me is her weekly Just Write blog carnival, in which she links to some great posts for writers.

What’s a blog carnival, you ask. Visit http://blogcarnival.com/bc/index.php to find out more.

Writing Career Coach: http://www.writingcareercoach.com
Writer Tiffany Colter provides training and a blog on marketing yourself and your writing products that has helped me a lot.

Writer’s Digest Blogs: http://www.writersdigest.com/blogs
The folks at Writer’s Digest host a few blogs that talk about issues from different perspectives.

That’s it for today. Happy reading!