Writerly Linkee-poos

“Want a child-friendly way to introduce your little one to the traditions of the Old Cult?” So begins the Adventures of Lil’ Cthulhu Had to watch this without sound, but what a friggin’ excellent cartoon. Much laughing was had. (Grokked from John Scalzi)
Scott Westerfield give some tips on writing for NaNoWriMo, Tip 1 Dialog Spine, [...]

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Halloween Hangover Links

Ever wanted to know what to call a bunch of ghosts? Wonder no longer. Wondermark with an excellent table of Supernatural Collective Nouns. Probably not gospel, but certainly good for a laugh. Although I personally like “a rage of orcs” and “a flurry of yeti.” Although “an exigency of wendigoes” is growing on me. (Grokked [...]

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More Links

In case I’m not on the internets this weekend (I’m trying to limit myself as part of a “stop rewarding the procrastination and get more work done” plan, seriously, I haven’t even posted pictures from VP yet), have a good Halloween everybody.
eBear (matociquala) discusses the progress of novel writing. Yeah, and all that.
Ken McConnell [...]

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More Links – the Agent (mostly) Version

Rachelle Gardner discusses the process of getting and agent from the agent side. Knowing both sides of the board can certainly help your chances of success.
Agents do more than sell books, a post form the BookEnds agency. Yes, and this is why you want an agent. Sure, there are some authors who do the whole [...]

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Links

Elmore Leonard spills his rules of writing. The subtitle sums it up, “Easy on the adverbs, exclamation points and especially hooptedoodle.” (Grokked from Astrid)
Justine Larbalestier muses on hating female characters. That’s an interesting ponderable.
And then there were two (Cat Valente sells Fairlyand for publication as a YA book). Two do not a trend make, [...]

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Writerly Linkee-poo

The Staffordshire Hoard Flickr set. I love stuff like this. It gets my hack and slash geekery on. Of course, this year’s gift of choice for the little curtain pee-ers? Metal detectors! I expect to see a few hundred of those things in garage sales next year. (link grokked from Making Light).
Justine Larbalestier pontificates on [...]

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Friday linkages

Josh Olson tells just why he won’t read your fucking script. You know, even at this point in my writing career I’ve had to adopt this philosophy as well. I have enough writing friends, and I include among those the critique group I belong to, that taking on more from people I don’t know personally [...]

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Writerly Linkee-poo

Dean Wesley Smith is dinning on the bar-b-qued remains of publishing myths. This one is about rewrite. There’s a lot in here I agree with, and a lot I disagree with. I think the point would be, “don’t be so critical of yourself.” As to his rant on critique groups, I agree. You shouldn’t write [...]

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Writerly Linkee-poo

So, as someone who is writing the first novel they’ll complete (I think I can, I think I can) this article on This Is Your Job speaks well to me. (grokked form Jay Lake)
The Writer’s Digest (of which I no longer subscribe, sorry guys) with 7 Biggest Myths of Publishing. What she said (especially #7 [...]

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Rejection to Linkages

OSC Intergalactic Medicine show sends word they’re passing on my humorous flash fantasy “Prince Wanted.” The letter is short and sweet, but I’m not sure it’s a form (I’ll have to check older rejections from them). So, sometime this weekend it’s back to duotrope (and now that I think about it, it’s been quite a [...]

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