Our weekly roundup of links we hope you’ll find interesting and useful:
• Creativity is not magic: a fascinating analysis by author Jonah Lehrer on how creativity works.
• Creativity is work: 25 observations on creativity by author Chuck Wendig.
• From Huffington Post, the big reasons that indie authors aren’t taken seriously (via The Editor’s POV)
• Does your short story demand to be longer? Consulting editor Alan Rinzler has tips for growing a short story into a novel.
• Not just for superheroes: A concise handout at Superhero Nation on writing interesting characters.
• Victoria Strauss at Writer Beware encourages you to evaluate writing contests carefully.
• And we leave you with this gorogeous video: The Beauty of a Second, in which people submitted “beauty in a second of film” to a competition sponsored by Montblanc. How would you capture these moments with your writer’s pen…?
   
  

  
  The Beauty Of a Second – 3rd round compilation (Instant Bliss) from The Beauty Of A Second on Vimeo.

Enjoy your weekend. Write something wonderful!

Here’s our weekly roundup of links we hope you’ll find interesting and useful:
• We lead with this terrific post from writer Jeanne Kisacky on thinking like an editor.
• Have you ever wondered how acquiring editors read your manuscript? (h/t author Gwenda Bond)
• Author Anne R. Allen’s thoughtful post on how one learns to be a writer will give you a lot to consider. Don’t miss the comment conversation!
• Author Natalie Whipple shares a candid and helpful list of 10 things she wishes she had done differently as a writer.
• We always love the way author Chuck Wendig gets right to the heart of the matter. NSFW and not safe for those who make excuses.
• And we leave you with this very simple advice and absolutely true advice from Creative Something:
   
  

 
Enjoy your weekend. Write something wonderful!

Many congratulations to Sterling Editing client Andrew E. Kaufman, whose book The Lion, The Lamb, The Hunted just hit #7 on the Amazon.com Best Seller List in Kindle Paid eBooks.

We’ve been planning to update our testimonials/references and help publicize our clients’ work, and we can’t think of a better way to start than this. Congratulations, Andrew! We’re excited for your success and proud to be part of your team!

Your Editors are not engaged in editing at this particular moment. Nor are they engaged in herding links, flogging text, wrangling commas or performing helicopter rescues of dangling participles. Your Editors are having some Time Off.

We’ll be back with links in March.

While we’re away, write something wonderful!