Interesting blog posts about writing - w/e October 29th 2010

Oct. 29th, 2010 at 12:15 PM

Here’s my selection of interesting (and sometimes amusing) posts about writing from the last week:

Reality Check on Aisle Writer Beware (Victoria Strauss)

There Are Far Too Many “Writers” (John Grant aka realthog)

As long as you keep growing (Patty Jansen aka mikandra)

To Freebie or Not to Freebie (Rowena Cherry)

Starter Markets (Nancy Fulda aka nancyfulda) [Jon’s Pick of the Week]

Those Reversals Add Up (Gay Degani)

To Market, To Market… (Kat Richardson aka katatomic)

Introducing nook color

Moving slowly, which is okay (J. Kathleen Cheney aka j_cheney)

Goals and Obstacles (Nathan Bransford)

Tightening Up Your Manuscript (Brian Kell aka brian_ohio)

The No. 1 Component of an Effective Online Marketing and Promotion Strategy (Jane Friedman)

5 Things Every Writer Should Know About Rights (Jane Friedman)

by way of Phil Giunta (aka pgiunta)

If you have a particular favorite among these, please let the author know (and me too, if you have time). Also, if you've a link to a great post that isn't here, feel free to share.

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realthog

Oct. 29th, 2010 06:09 pm (UTC)

Thanks for the plug, Jon!

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jongibbs

Oct. 29th, 2010 07:30 pm (UTC)

My pleasure, sir :)

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brian_ohio

Oct. 29th, 2010 06:40 pm (UTC)

Thanks for the link! Always appreciated!

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jongibbs

Oct. 29th, 2010 07:31 pm (UTC)

You're welcome, Brian :)

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asakiyume

Oct. 29th, 2010 10:33 pm (UTC)

That Victoria Strauss one was very interesting and sent me reading a bunch of her archived posts, as well.

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jongibbs

Oct. 30th, 2010 02:59 pm (UTC)

I think Victoria runs one of the most useful writing blogs on the web.

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peadarog

Oct. 30th, 2010 02:54 pm (UTC)

The "Freebie" and "Too many writers" were good for me, although I blogged the latter point myself a good while back.

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jongibbs

Oct. 30th, 2010 03:00 pm (UTC)

'I blogged the latter point myself a good while back.'

Care to share a link to it?

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peadarog

Oct. 30th, 2010 03:05 pm (UTC)

You linked to it yourself, I believe :-)

It was in an ebook post, I remember that. I had a guest post on another website and that was what you linked to.

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jongibbs

Oct. 30th, 2010 03:19 pm (UTC)

Well if I linked to it, it must have been good ;)

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peadarog

Oct. 30th, 2010 03:18 pm (UTC)

Ah, here you go...

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jongibbs

Oct. 30th, 2010 03:24 pm (UTC)

From June 2009. Good post then, still good now :)