Our weekly roundup of links we hope you’ll find interesting and useful:
• A great productivity approach: don’t break the chain.
• Author Nathan Bransford talks about how to write through difficult times.
• Wise words from agent Rachelle Gardner: quality books take time.
• Author and editor Barbara Scott with self-editing tips: search and find.
• What makes editor Lynn Price stop reading your manuscript?
• Don’t miss The Rejectionist’s oh-so-true take on avoidance behavior.
• And we leave you with this (hat tip to Rob Sutherland!):
   
  

Enjoy your weekend. Write something wonderful!

Our weekly roundup of links we hope you’ll find interesting and useful:
• Editor Lynn Price wants your characters to leap off the page.
• The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin considers the difference between voice and style.
• Editor ALaz Rinzler has tips on launching a successful blog tour.
• Does your significant other support your writing? Here’s some spot-on advice from agent Rachelle Gardner for people who live with writers.
• Is writing like grieving? Writer Amy Sundberg takes you through the Five Stages of Sumbission to writing…
• And we leave you with author Justine Musk, because she is a creative badass, just like you…

Enjoy your weekend. Write something wonderful!

Our weekly roundup of links we hope you’ll find interesting and useful:
• We appreciate Gary Kamiya’s praise of editors and his thoughtful look at what good editing really is.
• Should you focus on your writing or your platform? Publishing expert Jane Friedman has advice.
• Agent Rachelle Gardner has useful tips on how to cut thousands of words from your book.
• Don’t wait! Be the first of the writer kids on your block to make your own rejections!
• Writers, make sure you understand your contracts! Author Victoria Strauss looks at reversion clauses, and what can go wrong when you don’t have one.
• How do you know when you’ve made it as a writer? Author Justine Larbalestier tells you.
• Editor and author Chuck Sambuchino encourages you to keep moving forward. We do too.

Enjoy your weekend. Write something wonderful!

Our weekly list of links we hope you’ll find interesting and useful:
• Jane Friedman has a lot of terrific advice for writers. Bookmark it!
• Author Necee Regis with a compelling personal essay on the power of words.
• Two must-reads from editor Lynn Price on the myths of small presses and the quest for excellence in self-publishing.
• Not just for poetry: surprise, attention to detail, and taking the reader on a journey from writer and poet Holly Bass.
• And we leave you with these truths from Creative Something:

  

Enjoy your weekend. Write something wonderful!