Interesting posts about writing – w/e January 21st 2011

Jan. 21st, 2011 at 12:30 PM

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

Let’s Talk Dialect (Gloria Oliver)

Ten Ways to be Awkward at a Writer’s Conference (Mary Demuth)

What’s Your Blog Identity (Rachelle Gardner)

The Myth of Overnight Success (C. Hope Clark)

Arguing Book Piracy (Jim C. Hines aka jimhines )

Combining Characters (Kathryn Craft)

How to Write a Synopsis When You Have Lots of Characters in Your Story (Chuck Sambuchino)

How do you get all that information? (Jonathan Maberry)

Query Rant (Lucienne Diver aka varkat )

Writers as Salespeople (L. J. Sellers)

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.

If you found these useful, you may also like my personal selection of interesting blog posts from 2010

Current Mood: content

Tags:

Comments

( 20 comments — Leave a comment )

kathryncraft

Jan. 21st, 2011 06:38 pm (UTC)

Thanks Jon--great stuff this week! Thanks for the mention. Loved Chuck's post on un-complicating the synopsis--most valuable.

Link | Reply | Thread

jongibbs

Jan. 21st, 2011 06:54 pm (UTC)

Those synopsis thingies can be a real pain :)

Link | Reply | Parent | Thread

bogwitch64

Jan. 21st, 2011 07:39 pm (UTC)

I had to LOL at the spelling-error mistake back and forth on Lucienne Diver's blog. Too funny.

Link | Reply | Thread

jongibbs

Jan. 21st, 2011 08:03 pm (UTC)

Link | Reply | Parent | Thread

akossket

Jan. 21st, 2011 07:46 pm (UTC)

"Let's Talk Dialect" and "The myth of overnight success" were my favorites.

Link | Reply | Thread

jongibbs

Jan. 21st, 2011 08:02 pm (UTC)

I'm glad you found them useful :)

Link | Reply | Parent | Thread

asakiyume

Jan. 22nd, 2011 06:13 am (UTC)

A lot of good ones here--thanks as always. I left a comment on Gloria Oliver's post as I've been thinking about speech patterns and things recently.

Link | Reply | Thread

jongibbs

Jan. 22nd, 2011 06:15 pm (UTC)

Speech patterns are fun to write :)

Link | Reply | Parent | Thread

a_r_williams

Jan. 22nd, 2011 08:21 am (UTC)

I liked the "Writer's as Sales People". One thing she didn't mention though, is that publishers try to make most of their money from the first few months of the book. Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch refer to this as the produce model.

In self-publishing writers have the lifetime of the book in order to generate revenue.

Great link, Jon.

Sadly, I don't think publishing companies will get it, until a lot of the mid-list writers go independent.

Link | Reply | Thread

jongibbs

Jan. 22nd, 2011 06:17 pm (UTC)

I think in all publishing, but in self-publishing especially, generating awareness is the key.

Link | Reply | Parent | Thread

(Deleted comment)

jongibbs

Jan. 24th, 2011 11:19 am (UTC)

Good points all. Much as I like having an eBook contract, I want a traditional print one too :)

Link | Reply | Parent | Thread

(Deleted comment)

jongibbs