Sunday, October 28, 2012

Sunday Surfing

Wax your boards and ride the waves.  Great links follow.

Manuscript Revisions – Let’s Draw Some Blood  (Excellent article!)

Enjoy the surf!
Blog Widgets and Marketing Materials for Authors

Writing Better Descriptions

Three Reasons to Write the Premise BEFORE You Write the Book

Eight Tips That Will Help You Rock Your Blog

10 Quick & Easy Things You Can Do To Help Your Favourite Amazon Author

10 Universities Offering Free Writing Courses Online

Ten Indisputable Signs That You’re a Writer

10 Tips for Beginning Writers

Novel Approaches: 10 Books That Became Great Sci-Fi and Fantasy Films


In other news:

I have a post scheduled for Tuesday in honor of NaNoWriMo participants. 30 thoughts of encouragement: one for each day of the challenge.

I've decided to embark upon the monumental task of upgrading my Magic Muse writing workbench software to a modern dotNet version. I'm considering a number of enhancements. The process will be long and no doubt compete against my writing time. Wish me well.

12 comments:

  1. great blog! so many things to go check out! new follower, hi!

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    1. You are most welcome here, Tammy! I'm always thrilled to meet new folks, especially when they have great blogs I can join. ;-)

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  2. Great links! Nano is just around the corner...

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    1. Indeed. Here's to wishes of new heights of success for all participants.

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  3. Those free online courses sound great! I'm always excited to learn new things, mostly if they are for free. :D About your software, make it Software Dummy tested and you'll have 100 dwarf-cheer-up team at your service. (Had to increase the staff, needed more minion for brainstorming while Muse is in the hospital)

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    1. Free is difficult to beat. :-) I'll make an extra effort just for the dwarves! Relay my wishes to Muse of a speedy recovery. ;-)

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  4. Tons of links. Looking forward to your Nano encouragement post.

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    1. Thanks, Libby. I hope it serves my intended purpose. :-)

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  5. I read post this last week on Premise by Christine Tyler that was fab! Awesome idea about the NaNo encouragement, and I'll be wishing you well for sure :)

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    1. Yeah, the post made a lot of sense. I suppose if the author sticks to the premise it would work quite well. And best wishes to ALL NaNo participants!

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  6. Great links, Jeff! I really liked them all! Thanks for sharing. Good luck with your software upgrade! So are you doing Nanowrimo this year? I really want to but I don't think it's in the cards for me. I might do my own in a month or two or three when things slow down for me. Great post! And thanks for visiting my blog! :D

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    1. Thanks for the wish of luck. (I may need it! LOL) I won't be officially participating in NaNo this year, but possibly next year. I discovered months ago during a "Mock NaNo" that the faster I write, the more worthless my output becomes. End result was that it was actually counter-productive for me. And visiting your blog is always a pleasure and worth the visit.

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