Here’s my selection of interesting (and sometimes amusing) posts about writing from the last weekabout writing from the last week:
Using Story Structure to Your Advantage (Janice Hardy)
http://blog.janicehardy.com/2010/01/form-fitting.html
What Literary Agents Want to See Before Signing With a Writer (Mally Becker)
http://thewritelife.com/what-literary-agents-want-to-see/
by way of The Author Chronicles
6 Ways to Add Tension (Anna Elliott)
http://writerunboxed.com/2015/05/07/when-your-scene-is-dragging-5-ways-to-add-tension/
5 Tips For Avoiding POV Speedbumps (Diana Hurwitz)
http://bloodredpencil.blogspot.com/2015/05/5-tips-for-avoiding-pov-speedbumps.html
Finding the Humor: Jokes in the Midst of Tragedy (Rochelle Deans)
http://querytracker.blogspot.com/2015/05/finding-humor-jokes-in-midst-of-tragedy.html
Change (Donald Maass)
http://writerunboxed.com/2015/05/06/change/
Welcome to the Shark Tank (Rachelle Gardner)
www.booksandsuch.com/blog/shark-tank/
How Long is a Chapter? (Heidi M. Thomas)
http://bloodredpencil.blogspot.com/2015/05/how-long-is-chapter.html
Have Publishers Failed Authors? (Janet Kobobel Grant)
www.booksandsuch.com/blog/have-publisher
If you found these useful, you may also like my personal selection of the most interesting blog posts from 2014, and last week’s list.
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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It's incredibly hard to use humour in writing about really black tragedy, I think, and few people get it quite right...
Ricky Gervais does a couple of hilarious short monologues on Anne Frank and Rosa Parks. On the face of it, you'd think they would be taboo subjects, but it works brilliantly.