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Best Fiction and Writing Blogs

September 4, 2015 Mike 4 Comments

The best fiction and writing blog posts from around the ‘net, with advice and inspiration guaranteed to make you a literary ninja. Compiled by mishima.

Nihar Pradhan – Travelling, Photographing & Writing
Jon Westenberg – 30 Reasons Why I Write
Marcy Kennedy – Internal Dialogue: The Secret Sauce to Fixing Problems?
James Royce Patterson – Five Ways To Improve Your Writing’s Flow
Damyanti – Have You Always Been A Writer?
C.S. Wilde – How I Write
K.L. Register – Why Do You Write?
Samantha Who – The Keeper of Lost Causes

Fiction, Writing

Quote of the day

August 23, 2015 Mike 11 Comments

“You do not write in the belief that books can change the world. But you do know that books changed you. So you know that books can change people. And people, of course, collectively, can change a world.” – Mohsin Hamid

Fiction, Writing

Best Fiction and Writing Blogs

August 21, 2015 Mike Leave a comment

The best fiction and writing posts from around the ‘net, with advice and inspiration guaranteed to make you a literary rock star. Compiled by the dude.

A. J. Humpage – 10 Reasons Why Stories Fail
Alice Osborn – Don’t You Dare Double Space After a Period!
Wallace Cass Jr. – Fighting Procrastination and Writer’s Block
Jacqui Murray – Writer’s Tip #75: Break the Rules
Kirsten Slater – My Night Time Dreams
Chris Nicholas – Paper Trails
phantomwriter143 – Submitting Your Manuscript
Nicola Alter – A Workshop with Garth Nix

Fiction, Tolkien, Writing

Best Fiction and Writing Blogs

August 5, 2015 Mike 10 Comments

The best fiction and writing blog posts from around the ‘net, with advice and inspiration guaranteed to make you a literary adventurer. Compiled by ernie.

Elizabeth Stokkebye – Lessons From Writing Boot Camp
Stratford Caldecott – The Provocative Imagination Behind Comic Books (A Tolkien scholar’s insights into comics)
Jacob Emet – Writing
Shiva Acharya – Celebrating the Joy of Reading
Daedalus Lex – Best Sentence in English Lit
Jay Dee Archer – Worldbuilding
Nihar Pradhan – Writing Is Romancing With Self

re: the comic books article, I must admit I never recognized the archetypes represented by the Fantastic Four. Cool.

Fiction, Hemingway, Writing

Best Fiction and Writing Blogs

June 30, 2015 Mike 3 Comments

The best fiction and writing blog posts from around the ‘net, all guaranteed to make you a literary adventurer. Compiled by ernie.

Jacqueline Seewald – Tips On Adding Symbolism In Fiction
Lori Rensink – Just Words And Just Music
Gary Gautier – The Architecture of Narrative
Assia Shahin – Uffizi Galore
Jay Dee Archer – Authors Answer 33 – The Writing Process
Timothy Pike – “Doing interesting stuff” inspires this tireless writer
Nihar Pradhan – Great Bloggers Are Great Thinkers

And as an extra bonus: Ancient Origins. This webzine is updated daily with fascinating articles about Science and Space, History and Archaeology, Evolution, and Strange Phenomena. A gold mine of writing ideas!

Fantasy Fiction, Writing

Best Fiction and Writing Blogs

June 17, 2015 Mike 7 Comments

The best fiction and writing blog posts from around the ‘net, all guaranteed to make you a literary ninja. Compiled by mishima.

Charles E. Yallowitz – What Do You Look For In Magic Beasts?
Kathryn Lilley – Brain Science Offers Solutions for Writer’s Block
Alice Osborn – How Do You Book A Book Signing?
Timothy Pike – Are You Afraid Of Success, Dear Writer?
Damyanti – Do You Submit Like A Man?
Andrew Toy – The Elimination Game
Susan Holmes – The Writer’s Craft
Purpleanais – Does Anybody Really Believe in Freedom of Speech?

Fiction, Writing

Quote of the day

June 13, 2015 Mike 1 Comment

“Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.” – John Gardner, The Art of Fiction

Fiction, Robert E. Howard, Writing

Best Fiction and Writing Blogs

June 5, 2015 Mike 8 Comments

The best fiction and writing blog posts from around the ‘net, all guaranteed to make you a literary superstar. Compiled by robert.

Cindy Harris – 8 Tips for Editing a Manuscript
Jonathan Ball, PhD – Don’t Attribute Dialogue
Alice Osborn – 6 Steps for Getting Your Memoir Done (good advice for all writing projects)
Jack Ronald Cotner – Kill Your Darlings!
Jennifer Brady – It Takes a Village to Raise an Ebook
Nihar Pradhan – What Is Writing?
Roggen Wulf – Writing About Writer’s Block
Moldy Daisy – Geography Now!

Language, Writing

I Don’t Need An Editor!

May 24, 2015 Mike 5 Comments

Said the copywriter who wrote this for the Beverly Hills Hotel home page:

“Many of our bungalows have interesting histories as well: Elizabeth Taylor honeymooned with six of her eight husbands, Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Dietrich, among others, enjoyed them as well.”

Unclear pronoun reference, improper punctuation, confusing repetition — it’s almost everything you could ask for in bad writing.

Fiction

Not Bulwer-Lytton

May 11, 2015 Mike 2 Comments

No, this isn’t from the infamous but beloved Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest:

“As my FBI forensic psychologist husband put it last night while I was cooking dinner in our historic Cambridge home that was built by a well-know transcendentalist, ‘You’re being tricked, Kay.'” — Patricia Cornwell, Red Mist, p. 5.

Reading that sentence makes my head hurt. As much as I admire Patricia Cornwell, she and her editor let that turkey slip through the cracks. Yes, even the great ones flub it sometimes.