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I had things to say but it is late and my back/hip are sad from sitting and I need to do a stroll of the house to make sure I haven't forgotten anything too important for the trip. Kanda saw the suitcase and is hiding under the bed.

ETA A question for you. I can't decide what to do with one of the guys in the DIY christmas story. One is a surgical nurse and I know his husband works for a Native American casino. I can't decide if he's a card dealer or should it be director of food service. What do you all think?

So instead, let me hand you a bunch of links and run

So from Betty (which I typed both as Better and Batty before I got it right....)

Hints for Writing a Series

Planning Super Light Stories Know what? I'm glad there's a pushback against grimdark and dystopia because it's getting harder and harder to find stuff in some of my favorite genres because of it

Six Common Mistakes in Fight Scenes, and How to Avoid Them Excellent. I'm going to add 'keep them relatively short.' Seriously. Even in manga/graphic novels it gets dull.

Five Ways to Persevere Through Rejection

How To Write A Killer First Draft In 6 Steps

the element everything in your story needs

Betty has also been sending me pintrest stuff, some are like these, checklist for things to do. Others that I might start sharing are story ideas/prompt (though part of me is worried I'd run with it and someone would be like you stole my idea....) Oh and since these are pictures, just click on them to embiggen them.

70 world building considerations

writing the villain

Ways to create book titles

And from around the web

Why And How I Write Novels About Tough Subjects

Women Adventuring in Time

How I Found my Literary Agent Need to sit down with this one

The #1 mistake of self-published authors for worldwide book sales

Five Things You Need As You Begin A Career As A Self-Published Author

Writing About Controversial Topics

Find More Book Buyers By Expanding Your Target Audience

Yearly word count

6933 / 100000 words. 7% done! pathetic

Mischief Christmas -

1658 / 20000 words. 8% done!

DIY Christmas -

511 / 6000 words. 9% done!