Interesting Blog Posts About Writing - w/e January 7th 2011

[jongibbs]

Here’s my selection of interesting (and sometimes amusing) posts about writing from the last week (plus a few from December 17th - 31st):

The Pitch Begins With Premise (Vicky Dreiling)
by way of Lucienne Diver (aka varkat)

Creating a Long-term Writing Career (Stephen Cannell)
by way of Robert Kern

The Inner Editor vs. the Inner Critic (Maggie

Comments

[tracy_d74]

Thanks a lot for increasing my stress about being published with the "publishing nightmare" post. :p

[jongibbs]

Stress is good. It reminds you you're alive :)

[tracy_d74]

Whatever! :)

[a_r_williams]

How Much to Sell Yourself was good.

Oh, and if you liked Joshua's Blimes take on Borders you may also be interested in these other takes.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch: http://kriswrites.com/2011/01/05/the-business-rusch-rapid-change-changing-times-part-twelve/

JA Konrath: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/12/death-spiral.html

What I find interesting about the posts are the different ideas of where big publishing is heading where they view big publishers as heading.

[jongibbs]

Thanks for sharing, Aaron :)

[sallymn]

That historical wordtracker has been bookmarked with glee and thanks to both of you :)

The 7 Deadly Sins one was good too, and not only for romance...

[jongibbs]

Thanks, Sally :)

[karen_w_newton]

I thought the Bilmes post was the best in-depth explanation of why Borders started having problems in the first place. A bookstore lives and dies by its inventory, so not having the right books when people walk in the door is almost bound to be fatal.

And thanks for the mention!

[jongibbs]

My pleasure, Karen. It was a useful post :)

[ext_193247]

You always come up with some great sites to share! Thanks for this list. There's only one familiar one in the bunch so I'll have fun checking out the others. (Shari Green is my daughter. :) )

[jongibbs]

Shari Green is my daughter

In that case, I hope that's the one you'd already read ;)