Our weekly roundup of links we hope you’ll find interesting and useful:
• Author Robin Black on beginning your story with clarity.
• Agent Kristin talks about classic beginning writing mistakes.
• Author Anne Allen has three questions to ask yourself before you self-publish.
• Here are ten literary agent blogs you should be reading.
• It’s elemental! The Periodic Table of Storytelling (thanks to Angelique for the link).
• It’s National Library Week! Please go thank a librarian. Your Editor’s Mother was a librarian — thanks, Mom, for plonking me in the middle of a roomful of books every summer and telling me to find something to read.
• Want to be one of the “lucky” ones? We leave you with this thoughtful post by writer Erik Calonius on what lucky people do differently (via Alexis Grant). Read it…
   
  …and then go write something wonderful.

Enjoy your weekend.

Posted by: Kelley