Interesting posts about writing – w/e August 27 2010
Write Around the World, the online journal at FindAWritingGroup.com
Here’s my selection of interesting (and sometimes amusing) posts about writing from the last week:
PW Select: Opportunity or Exploitation? (Victoria Strauss)
Slush Behind the Scenes (Mary Kole)
Why Your Reader Won’t If you Say I See (James Van Pelt) [Jon’s ‘Pick of the week’]
Finding Your Audience (Susan Schreyer)
[The services publishers provide] (Nathan Bransford)
The Nose Knows (Maryann Miller)
What I’ve Learned From Critique Groups (Nancy Fulda)
7 Things I’ve Learned So Far (Hollis Gillespie)
Growing into it (Catherine Schaff-Stump)
Seven Steps to Starting a Novel (Maggie Stiefvater)
Throwing away books (Karen W. Newton)
A Tasting Menu of Fiction: Flash Fiction (Jaym Gates)
If you have a particular favorite among these, please let the author know.
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I agree with Stiefvater in her article about the steps to writing a novel, when she states to just write it. I think instead of constantly thinking about writing, if we just write, we're on the path towards completion.