Interesting blog posts about writing - May 29th 2020
Here’s my latest selection of interesting (and sometimes amusing) posts about writing:
Introducing the essential magic of PREMISE (Larry Brooks)
www.storyfix.com/the-whole-ballgame-pearls-nuggets-and-excerpts-the-series-part-17
4 Newbie Writer Mistakes that can Derail a Great Book Idea (Anne R. Allen)
https://annerallen.com/2020/05/newbie-writer-mistakes-derail-book-idea/
Rejections: What You Need to Know (Rachel Kent)
https://www.booksandsuch.com/blog/rejections-what-you-need-to-know/
The Spark of a Novel: Five Ways to Light That Spark (Barbara Linn Probst)
https://writerunboxed.com/2020/04/17/the-spark-of-a-novel-five-ways-to-light-that-spark/
Enemy Without a Face: When Dealing With a Different Sort of ‘Villain’ (Kristen Lamb)
https://authorkristenlamb.com/2020/04/enemy-different-villain/
Conflict Thesaurus Entry: Being Assigned an Undesirable Partner (Angela Ackerman)
https://writershelpingwriters.net/2020/04/conflict-thesaurus-entry-being-assigned-an-undesirable-partner/
Picture Book Endings (Natascha Biebow & Ellie Farmer)
https://www.wordsandpics.org/2016/04/ask-picture-book-editor.html
The Practice Novel (Dave King)
https://writerunboxed.com/2020/04/21/the-practice-novel/
The 3 Ms of Character Setup (C.S. Lakin)
https://www.janefriedman.com/the-3-ms-of-character-setup/
Causing confusion will sink your query letter (query critique) (Nathan Bransford)
https://blog.nathanbransford.com/2020/04/causing-confusion-will-sink-your-query-letter-query-critique
If you found these useful, you may also like my personal selection of the most interesting blog posts from 2019, and my previous list.
If you have a particular favorite among these, please let the author know (and me too, if you have time). Also, if you've a link to a great post that isn't here, feel free to share.