Interesting blog posts about writing – w/e August 7th 2015

Aug. 7th, 2015 at 10:36 AM

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

Being a Stage Mom for Your Book Baby (Merry Farmer) www.bloodredpencil.blogspot.com/2015/08/being-stage-mom-for-your-book-baby.html

Want to Become a Better Writer? Stop Writing (Barbara Baig) www.accrispin.blogspot.com/2015/08/guest-post-want-to-become-better-writer.html

Getting Paid By the Pageview: Good or Bad for Freelance Writers? (Nicole Dieker)
www.thewritelife.com/getting-paid-by-the-pageview/

How your Peer Group Can Help your Writing (Juliet Marillier)
www.writerunboxed.com/2015/08/06/how-your-peer-group-can-help-your-writing/

Price Wars and Victims (Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
www.kriswrites.com/2015/08/05/business-musings-price-wars-and-victims/

Marketing: the Basics (Susan Hawk)
www.jennybent.blogspot.com/2015/08/marketing-basics.html

Feelings Without Names (Donald Maass)
www.writerunboxed.com/2015/08/05/feelings-without-names/

When Can You Call Yourself a Writer? (Rachelle Gardner)
www.booksandsuch.com/blog/call-yourself-a-writer/

100 Random Storytelling Thoughts And Tips, Starting Now (Chuck Wendig) [Jon’s Pick of the week]
www.terribleminds.com/ramble/2015/08/04/100-random-storytelling-thoughts-and-tips-starting-now/

The Lure of Romance Writing (and Earnings) for the Literary Set (Jane Friedman)
www.janefriedman.com/2015/08/04/romance-writing/

Balancing Dialogue and Description in Your Story (Alexander Limberg)
www.janefriedman.com/2015/08/03/balancing-dialogue-and-description/

4 Contract Questions Every Writer Wants Answered (Janet Kobobel Grant)
www.booksandsuch.com/blog/4-contract-questions-every-writer-wants-answered/

How to know when to leave your agent (Nathan Bransford)
http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2015/07/how-to-know-when-to-leave-your-agent.html

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.