For those who missed last week's post: "Snowlilie's Brother" is now available in audio, narrated by Claire Golden Drake. You can find purchase links in the post I just linked to, but here's the direct link to buy it on Audible anyhow.
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“The idea of wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing & seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.”
~J K Rowling
OK. Well... I have nothing more to say about my own writing right now. However, I finally had a chance to sort several of those writerly posts and articles from the past month or so (though I do still have a bunch to go through). With that being the case, let's see what I have to share with you from them so far, shall we?
“I don’t have to live in the real world—I'm a fiction writer.”
~Aaron Sorkin
The writing process, and writing life in general:
Aristotle gave us more than philosophy
Why you need to write less (every now and then)
7 tips to co-authoring without violence... Hopefully
Self-expression in creative writing
10 tips for writing for other people when you're used to writing for yourself
Why we're so bad at knowing if our own work is good or not
“If you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.”
~Roxane Gay
Random writing tips:
7 tips to putting ice cream in fiction
7 tips to writing desert adventures: don't forget the sand
Using hetorical devices in your writing
“Sometimes writing is just rubbing words together long enough to make a fire.”
~Gillian Marchenko
Characters:
Creating memorable animal characters
The physical description: a necessary & surprisingly difficult piece
7 tips to writing a physical description that works
“Write. Just write. Start. And read as much as you can. Read widely and read different things, and sometimes while immersed in the multitude voices of others, you just might find your own.”
~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Poetry writing:
How to construe and convey tone in poetry
5 strong rhetorical devices to use in your poetry
“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer.”
~Ursula K. Le Guin
Formatting and editing:
Homophones, homonyms, and homographs
Chapter breaks and titles: what are our options?
How to publish with KDP, part 12: how to edit your eBook
“The secret: Do good work and share it with people.”
~Austin Kleon
Publishing:
Coming up with a unique book title
How to publish with KDP, part 14: how to review and preview your paperback
To pre-order or not - that is the question
“We live and breathe words.”
~Cassandra Clare
Audiobook production:
Sound check: Audio Lab launches on ACX
“Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.”
~Meg Rosoff
Book reviews:
“The moment you grab someone by the lapels and you've got something to tell, that's a story.”~F O'Connor
2 comments:
I love the one that begins Write! (And read widely) that's important.
Jeanie:
Yes, it is.
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