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Interesting posts about writing – w/e May 14 2010

May. 14th, 2010 at 7:21 AM

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

Here There Be Pirates: The New World for Writers (Ripley Patton aka rippatton)

Of Course We’re Going to Throw Poo at Him (Gregory Frost aka frostokovich)

The One sentence, One Paragraph, and Two paragraph Pitch (Nathan Bransford)

I’ve been there (April Henry aka aprilhenry)

Word Choice (Jennifer R. Hubbard aka writerjenn)

Thoughts on Revising (Elissa Cruz aka elissacruz)

How to Craft a Great Voice (Nathan Bransford)

Tomorrow may not resemble yesterday (Aaron R. Williams aka a_r_williams)

Do writerly manners matter? (bogwitch64)

Creative Muse Society – open! (jediknightmuse)

Shameless and Proud (Jon McGoran)

Advice from a Reader (L.J. Sellers)

Google readies its E-Book plan (Jessica E. Vascellaro & Jeffrey A Trachtenberg)

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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May. 14th, 2010 12:29 pm (UTC)

There are some terrific posts in this set! I especially liked the word choice one, the manners one, and the revision one, and I'll definitely be commenting on the authors' journals to say so.

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May. 14th, 2010 02:09 pm (UTC)

Glad you found them useful :)

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kmarkhoover

May. 14th, 2010 12:49 pm (UTC)

I found "How to Craft a Great Voice" fascinating.

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May. 14th, 2010 02:10 pm (UTC)

Nathan Bransford's blog is consistently informative and entertaining. It's no wonder he gets a million visitors a year.

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May. 14th, 2010 01:09 pm (UTC)

Great selection, as always. I didn't save them for lunch today because...because I'm boogering around on the internet when I should be upstairs writing. :)

(awritersfantasy comes up as "You are unauthorized to view this page.")

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May. 14th, 2010 02:10 pm (UTC)

Thanks for the headsup, Terri. I hadn't realized it was friends-locked, but I'm on the case :)

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jediknightmuse

May. 14th, 2010 03:01 pm (UTC)

It's open now. :) I didn't realize he was going to link to the entry instead of the actual board itself. XD

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May. 14th, 2010 03:18 pm (UTC)

My bad. Sorry for any confusion, Ally :)

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jediknightmuse

May. 14th, 2010 04:01 pm (UTC)

Lol, it's okay. XD

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May. 14th, 2010 03:27 pm (UTC)

Oh, good! Thanks!

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jediknightmuse

May. 14th, 2010 04:03 pm (UTC)

You're welcome! Let me know if you have any questions about it. I've found that I have to make some changes to some of the things I initially started off with (i.e. having applications), but that's about it. Things are kind of slow at the moment but I hope it'll get better soon.

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May. 14th, 2010 01:53 pm (UTC)

Great, as always. Thoughts on Revising probably resonated the most because I lost my way a bit this week.

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May. 14th, 2010 02:11 pm (UTC)

Thanks, Tracy. I hope you found your way back.

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May. 14th, 2010 02:41 pm (UTC)

I did. :)

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May. 14th, 2010 07:33 pm (UTC)

Interesting, informative, and useful. As always, Jon.
Thanks.

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May. 14th, 2010 07:50 pm (UTC)

You're most welcome, Deanna :)

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May. 15th, 2010 11:01 am (UTC)

Ripley's post is excellent. I've wanted to think that the good will overcome the bad but she opened my eyes. I must be getting old because accepting change has gotten a little more difficult for me.

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May. 15th, 2010 11:52 am (UTC)

I think you could drive yourself crazy if you let stuff like this bother you.

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May. 17th, 2010 04:33 pm (UTC)

My pleasure, Jenn :)

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May. 18th, 2010 12:35 am (UTC)

I have a suggestion:
Maggie Stiefvater's post on time management for creative types:
http://m-stiefvater.livejournal.com/159357.html

Maggie is an NYT best selling YA author.

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May. 18th, 2010 12:39 am (UTC)

erm... I just noticed you in the comments of that entry, so I guess you already knew about it!

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May. 18th, 2010 09:01 am (UTC)

Yeah, she made the post on Sunday, so it'll be on this week's list, but thanks for the suggestion though. I'd rather hear about something I already knew than miss out on a great post like that one :)

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