Interesting posts about writing – w/e October 23 2009

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

To Thine Own Characters Be True (Linda Lane)

And Then Everything In Publishing Changed All At Once… Or It Was More Of The Same (Nathan Bransford)

Submitting to Editors Without an agent (Nathan Bransford)

Writer Envy jimhines

Science Fiction for Reluctant Readers jimvanpelt

Make Time, But Don’t Sweat It damcphail

Viable Paradise Glossary cathschaffstump

Writers and Sensitivity (Nathan Bransford)

Aargh… The old self-publishing discussion, AGAIN bondo_ba

Thoughts on First Paragraphs (Nathan Bransford)

Publishing 101: What You Need to Know (Jerry Simmons) courtesy of aprilhenry

Crafting the Bones, Part 1   (Kathryn Craft)

Do You Need an Agent? jimvanpelt

In Which We Discuss Conventions And Disability  mmerriam

How Amazon and Wal-Mart could screw over authors and book sellers aprilhenry

On Writing [a novel] frost_light

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.