Interesting blog posts about writing – April 27th 2018

Here’s my latest selection of interesting (and sometimes amusing) posts about writing:

Establishing an Author Platform (Elizabeth Spann Craig)
www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com/2018/03/establishing-author-platform.html

How to Handle Critiques (Clare Langley-Hawthorne)
https://killzoneblog.com/2018/03/how-to-handle-critiques.html

The Question You Need to Ask for Every Scene (Janice Hardy)
http://blog.janicehardy.com/2018/03/the-question-you-need-to-ask-for-every.html

Pack More Punch in Your Prose (James Scott Bell)
https://killzoneblog.com/2018/04/pack-more-punch-in-your-prose.html

Forget the Query Stage (Wendy Lawton)
www.booksandsuch.com/blog/forget-query-stage/

Building a Strong Author Platform: It’s Not Just About the Numbers (Jane Friedman)
https://www.janefriedman.com/building-a-strong-author-platform/

How to regain your concentration (Nathan Bransford)
https://blog.nathanbransford.com/2018/04/how-to-regain-your-concentration

Resurrecting a Shelved Manuscript (Sonja Yoerg)
www.writerunboxed.com/2018/04/06/resurrecting-a-shelved-manuscript/

Your Ultimate First Chapter Checklist, Pt. 1: Hooking Readers (K.M.Weiland)
https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/first-chapter-checklist-1/

Delaying an Agent Submission (Mary Kole)
https://kidlit.com/2018/04/09/delaying-agent-submission/


If you found these useful, you may also like my personal selection of the most interesting blog posts from 2017, and my previous 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.