Sunday Surfing

I don't know about everyone else, but I'm having a blast introducing all these awesome folks.  And there are so many more awesome folks to be introduced.  It's a shame there are so few days in August.  If you've missed any of these awesome people, click the "Home" or "Interviews / Guests" tab and get acquainted!

Well, grab your surfboards!  Surf's nice today!  Lots of links!

Favourite quotes for writers and readers

Is Your Writing Any Good? (7 Ways You Can Tell)

Become a Blogging Jedi with the Yoda Guide to Better Blogging

The gorgeous Carolina coast

After the First Draft Part 1 and Part 2

Writing Excuses

Finding Your Voice

Plotting for Pantsers

5 Reasons to Write Your Scenes in Order

Today I got up and I did not have a Wheel of Time book to work on  (Brandon Sanderson on concluding a classic.)

Four self-published authors on New York Times ebook bestseller list

How to Shorten the Length of Your Novel Without Cutting Entire Scenes

Sunday Surfing

7 Things I’ve Learned So Far, by K.M. Ruiz

8 Tips for Naming Characters

9 Top Twitter Tips You Should Start Using Today!

More Links To Help Or Distract You
 

Sunday Surfing

How to Write from all Five Senses to Awake Your Fiction

7 Steps to Overcoming a Bad Book Review  (This one I enjoyed as much for the presentation as for the content.)

3 Tips for Writing Heavy Emotional Scenes  (I actually did a little of this in my first book without realizing it.)

Are you Left-Brained or Right-Brained  (The illusion is quite fun.  This one hurt my brain after a bit.  I can apparently switch at will though.)

5 Ways to Promote Your Book Right Now

Cracking the Kindle Code with WiDo Publishing

Sustenance for the Road

Revenge of the Neglected Muse  (I can so relate.)

9 Step Blog Checklist to Make Sure Your Posts Get Maximum Exposure  (Maybe I should try some of these.)

Akinator  (Guesses who you're thinking of, famous person or fictional character.  So accurate it's spooky.  A must try!)

Sunday Surfing

A quick note on these Sunday Surfing posts: People have asked where I find all these links, how I whittle them down to just a few, where I find the time to do it, etc.

Some links I find simply by following people's blogs.  (For example, Charlie Holmberg usually coughs up some good links on her Link Blitz posts every Friday at Myself as Written.)  Other links find their way into my email inbox or my Twitter feed.  I grab a link or two from group memberships (like Yahoo's Fantasy Writing group) or posts linked by inkPageant.

Of course, I stumble upon one here and there just by surfing too.  And when I encounter one that I think others will find useful or entertaining I do like Mom taught me.  I share.

Enjoy!

MEDICALERT: The Scourge of Premature Submission  (Found this link thanks to Sarah Bowers.) 

Gate Crashers - The lucky 13s: 13 authors with debut novels in 2013:
Gate Crashers at Ink & Angst pt 1
Gate Crashers at Ink & Angst pt 2
Gate Crashers at Ink & Angst pt 3

Book Blogs

1st Annual $1000 Mom Blogger Scholarship for Aspiring and Existing Bloggers

4 Tips for Overcoming Writer’s Block

Research Links  (lots of 'em all grouped into numerous categories.)

The Hottest Tip No Fiction Writer Can Afford To Ignore  (Hint: The tip is one single word.)

The Seven Deadly Short Story Sins  (at Paperback Writer)

Sunday Surfing

Top 25 Ways to Blow a Book

7 Simple Ways to Make a Good Story Great  (Writer's Digest)

Dividing a Novel Into Chapters

Writing the Ultimate Query Letter  (Advice from Jolly Fish Press)

I Write Like  (Determines which author your writing style is most like.  It said my prologue and chapter 34 was like Tolkien, my first chapter was like Neil Gaiman and a scene centered on my dragons--within chapter 34--was like Ursula K. Le Guin.  My contemporary short story, Cathryn's Bay, came up with Dan Brown.  You get a little badge too.)

I write like
J. R. R. Tolkien

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!

Sunday Surfing & Avengers Experience

20 Common Grammar Mistakes that Almost Everyone Gets Wrong (Lit Reactor)

Shakespeare Does the Three Little Pigs  (hilarious video!)

Lady of Muse (for lovers of art and poetry)

inkPageant

Crack You Whip  (Always good for a laugh)



Twenty-seven years of marriage and still dating...

Yep, took the wife to the movies Friday.  Watched, of course, The Avengers.  (Was anything else showing?)  The wife did a lot of grinning.  (Me thinks she found all those muscles and all that testosterone appealing.)

I had high expectations going into it.  They've been building to this for quite some time now.  I braced myself  for disappointment, but doing so was unnecessary.  The movie was really good!  Lots of action.  Lots of strong characterization.  Fantastic humor.  This is one I can recommend to any who like action.

And as always, the popcorn was to die for, the weight of which increases in direct proportion to the amount of butter in which it floats.  Everything's better with butter!  And I'm getting somewhat accustomed to wearing 3D glasses and eye glasses all at the same time.

Life is grand!

Like the links?  Like the movie?