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25+ Favorite Twitter Hashtags for Writers (clickable list)

For all you Twitterers, or those of you thinking about becoming Twitterers, here is a good list of tags/hashtags for writers that you can follow on Twitter.

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Why we love bad writing by Laura Miller : Stieg Larsson and Dan Brown novels are riddled with cliches, but for many readers, that’s a feature not a bug.

I found this to be a particularly cogent response to the British novelist Edward Docx’s article about the superiority ( Read more... )

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Tropes - Part 1 - Shedding Some Light On Tropes ( wiki version)

Last week, at the Tuesday night’s AAAWG meeting, the topic of tropes came up. When I was asked what a trope was, I am chagrined to say that I didn’t have an immediate cogent answer and referred the ( Read more... )

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Link dump for Thursday, 2010/12/30 after the cut. The wiki version includes a tag cloud.

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For those of you who are in the query process or are thinking about getting into the query process, you may find this quite useful.  J.M. Tohline consolidates the answers from agents to the question “What is the
single biggest mistake writers make when querying you?”

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Link dump for Monday, 2010/12/13 after the cut. The wiki version includes a tag cloud.

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The first polish pass of Dispensing Justice is complete at 74,200 words and is moving into Beta.  Time to start soliciting beta readers.

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A quick announcement that the first draft, or as I refer to it, the barf draft, of my superhero science fiction YA novel Dispensing Justice is complete at 68,300 words. Now on to the polish phase.  Oh, and stay tuned.  It won’t be that long before it goes beta.

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Link dump for Sunday, 2010/11/14 after the cut. The wiki version includes a tag cloud.

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Taking a few hours away from my push to complete Dispensing Justice I went to see Megamind yesterday and was megapleased with it. It was the best supervillain movie that I have seen to date ( Despicable Me being my second choice), although The Incredibles remains my ( Read more... )