Sunday, November 11, 2012

Sunday Surfing


Getting the readers emotionally involved

Conflict: The Key to a Good Story

The Great Title Post

My Self-Edit Checklist

How to Avoid the Second Book Slump

Why Opening Pages Get Rejected

How To Write Compelling Antagonists

Pacing: Keeping the Action Going (SIWC 2012 Notes)

Facebook EdgeRank Algorithm: Updated at Expense of Fan Pages

A Writer's Tool Belt: Writing Tools for the Serious Writer

10 comments:

  1. how do you keep up with all this stuff?? :)~

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    1. It's not always easy! Work schedule has been demanding of late, but I do try.

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  2. Need the great title one, as I suck at titles.

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    1. I find that difficult to believe, Alex. You excel at so many things. It was an interesting article though.

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  3. These are great links! Thanks so much. I particularly liked the one on second book slump. I'm working on a second book in an MG mystery series.

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  4. Very nice! I read nearly all of them. The antagonist and the pacing are very interesting. About writer's tools, since you've already showed off you're a programmer, what would you recommend for Middle Age dragons? Besides Dragon of course. i got that one.

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    1. The software I hear recommended most is Scrivener. It's not free, but I believe it has a 30-day free trial. Some folks like Y-Writer which I believe is free. Perhaps a post examining some of the available software is in order...

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  5. So many links! I'm currently browsing through the article about antagonists. I always have way too much fun writing about the villains in all of my own stories. :P

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    1. Writing villains is fun. We probably get the same type of enjoyment out of it that actors get out of playing bad guys. ;-)

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