Interesting posts about writing – w/e November 18th 2011

Nov. 18th, 2011 at 11:02 AM

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

9 Pieces of Bad Writing Advice it’s Best to Ignore (Anne R. Allen)

Spamming and the Beginning Author (Norman W. Wilson)

How Traditional Publishers are making Money (Kristine Kathryn Rusch)

Do Fiction Writers Need Platform? (Mary Kole)

5 Things to Know About Publicity Before You’re Published (Crystal Patriarche)

Two Rules for Successful Writers (Robert Lee Brewer)

Only in Novels Ten (Lynn Viehl)

Thoughts on Convention Panels (Jim C. Hines aka jimhines)

Introducing Writer Beware’s Small Presses Page
by way of Victoria Strauss

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 the most interesting blog posts from 2010 and last week’s list.

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msstacy13

Nov. 18th, 2011 01:16 pm (UTC)

Let your reader's imagination do the work.

Yes!

Well, maybe not all the work...

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jongibbs

Nov. 18th, 2011 02:11 pm (UTC)

Lol, just so long as it doesn't want paying :)

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bogwitch64

Nov. 18th, 2011 10:32 pm (UTC)

The SFWA article (Small Press, via Victoria Strauss) was really informative, and surprisingly unbiased, though I did notice the PRO side of the column is quite a bit shorter than the CON. SFWA isn't exactly...small press friendly. For example, Finder could be nominated for the Nebula (and was! Ha!) but because I didn't earn the advance they require for admission to the organization, I couldn't even vote for myself. They allow small press nominations, but won't allow small press authors into the club. It's...interesting.

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