#WriterWednesday 16-12-20; Being Featured + Writerly Links

Sally Cronin has been featuring other authors in her Cafe And Bookstore on her blog again, where she's been doing a Christmas book fair to recommend some books you might like to pick up as Christmas presents.  I was featured in one of her posts, which can be found here in case you want to check that out.  In fact, you might want to check out all her Cafe And Bookstore Christmas Book Fair posts, especially if you still need to pick up a present for a book lover who's on your Christmas list. 

     

Lilie and I were also featured in Sally's 2020 Christmas party - which was a virtual pet Christmas party.  That was this past weekend, and you can see the post we feature in for that by going here. 

      

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In other news: I found my computer to modem cable in time to get a decent chunk of computer time, and I've gathered some posts and articles for you - which I hope you'll find interesting - from among the stack of ones that have arrived in my inbox since the last time I did a writer Wednesday post that contained links.  So, let's see what I've got to share with you today, shall we? 

    

The writing process, and writing life in general:

7 tips to being the author you were meant to be 

How to restart stalled creativity the easy way 

How to cultivate writing inspiration 

NaNoWriMo:

I finished NaNoWriMo: now what? 

Characters:

7 tips for creating awesome characters 

5 dos and don'ts of a good sidekick 

Five things your characters need 

Random writing tips:

Is weather important to stories? 

Leftovers anyone? 

Three literary elements: subject 

The challenge of persuasive speech 

Crossing genres: fantasy and romance 

Crossing genres: fantasy and horror

Story tropes: to avoid or not to avoid? 

Plants and payoffs 

Editing:

What's in an edit? 

Clear out the clutter around your verbs 

Publishing:

How long should your novel be? 

How to publish with KDP, part 20: How to create your Amazon Author page and using Author Central 

The business side of writing:

Writing, editing, formatting, and promotional services 

Just A Few More Writerly #Quotes For You

“Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity not hampered by opinion.”

~Haircrow

     

“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.”
~D McCullough

     

“One should use common words to say uncommon things”
~Arthur Schopenhauer 

     

“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”
~Robert Hughes

     

“In writing, don’t use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was “terrible,” describe it so that we’ll be terrified. Don’t say it was “delightful”; make us say “delightful” when we’ve read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers, “Please will you do my job for me.”
~C.S. Lewis
     

“Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.”
~Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
     

 “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”

~Joseph Chilton Pierce

     

“You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.”
~William S. Burroughs
     

“The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.”
~Vanna Bonta
     

 “Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
    

“That’s my advice with dealing with writers block. Follow the fun. If you aren’t having fun, you are doing it wrong.”

~Jordan Peele

     

“Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.”

~Albus Dumbledore

     

“If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.”
~CHARLAINE HARRIS
        

 

“Stories are the currency of human contact.”

~Robert McKee

     

“I can’t blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I’ve spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I’ll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children.”
~Colson Whitehead

#WriterWednesday 25-11-20; Writerly #Quotes And Links

"Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring."
~Terri Guillemets

     

It's time to take a look at what links I've managed to gather for you over the past couple of weeks.  So... Enjoy! 

    

 

The writing process, and writing life in general:

Finding balance 

The freedom to get it wrong 

How to be an early morning writer 

5 things to do if you're behind on your word count 

Motivation - how to find it and how to get it back if misplaced

     

 

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”

~Pablo Picasso

     

Characters:

Creating authentic character relationships 

Wizard, Magician, Magic-User, Sorceress, Witch, Warlock, Caster, Etc 

        

Random writing tips:

7 tips to following the 'rules' of writing 

Three literary elements: theme 

     

Writing for children:

Have fun writing for children 

 

    

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”

~Robert Frost

 

     

Editing:

How to edit: 25 tips for improving your writing (plus an editing checklist) 

      

Publishing:

How to publish with KDP, part 19: linking your eBook and paperback editions