Sunday, December 9, 2012

Sunday Surfing

The waves are plentiful this week.  Surf them all!

Character Development: Make Them Angry

How to Add Color to Your Writing and Gain Readers

Operation: Help The Elf (Excellent idea!)

How to Gain Quality Feedback from Your Critique Partners

Anatomy of a Rewrite 2: Kill Your Darlings

What's the Difference Between Conflict and Tension?

K.M.Weiland: 10 Lessons From a Completed Novel

I've got two links from Liesel's blogs this week:
3 Tips to Avoid Passive Voice and 4 Tips on Cutting Word Count for Short Stories

Part Two of Interview With A Blogpire 2 - Sticking Your Blog In The Spotlight

Ask PZM Dec '12: KDP Select Listing Sites

Found this Fake Name Generator thanks to a post at Taffy's Writings

Yet another view on Word Counts and Novel Length

I've got this habit of reading Moody Writing posts. You do too, right?

23 comments:

  1. I love your surfing posts. Great links in there.

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  2. I always enjoy your Sunday Surfing links. Thanks for sharing!

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    1. And I enjoy compiling them each week. You never know what gem is out there waiting to be read.

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  3. Another day at school. New things learned. Job done.

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    1. Always great to learn things. Now, go do your homework. ;-)

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  4. Yes, Moody creates the best posts about writing!

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  5. Those look like some great articles. Thanks for sharing.

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  6. Thanks for the links! Checking them out now.

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    1. You're welcome, Charlie. Always fun to surf and share. ;-)

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  7. I was reading through the links and then there I was! Sweet!

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    1. Well, you just never know who might show up on this list each week. Even you! ;-)

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  8. Thanks, Jeff...you do all the hard work for us! :o)

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    1. Oh, but I do enjoy it so, Mike. For your enjoyment! ;-)

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  9. Fantastic as always, Jeff-- thanks.

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    1. Thanks, Julie. Hopefully there's something listed you'll like.

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  10. The link to the word count article is handy for writers. It's best to check guidelines from publishers (and agents) to get a good feel than obtain advice not well researched.

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    1. Hey, Terry! Very true. Guidelines vary from publisher to publisher.

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  11. Once again, so many great links! I agree a lot with the first one, about making characters angry. Then again, that may be because I'm mean and love to torture my characters any way I can, and finding ways to irritate them is one of the ways I can achieve that. XD

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    1. We show our characters we love them by making them suffer, right? Something twisted about that. haha

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