Writerly Ways

[cornerofmadness]

Still not much to say on the craft (as if I have had for the last few years). I'm working on the necessary evil of editing. I have three projects I'm rotating through: a long Prodigal Son story I've lost the narrative thread for, Splinters of Silver and Cold Iron (boy I regret sending that out to someone to look at for how badly I've done the Irish for Killian) and These Haunted Hills (which I want to send out this year). I'm tearing them up one chapter at a time looking for weasel and filter words. It's shocking how bad a first draft can be.

Have some links. From around the web

Best Women's Erotica of the Year. word of warning, I've heard they're great to work with BUT the word count is very short

Is Your Writing Terrible… Or Is It The Dunning-Kruger Effect?

Writing Phone Conversations to Forward Your Plot and Draw Your Characters

10 Book Launch Don’ts

How to Avoid Unnecessary Filter Words in Your Writing

How to find filter words and filter them out


From Betty

What’s Your Body Language IQ?

Where Do Your Readers Come From?

What To Do Once You’ve Finished Your First Draft

What Book Editors Will and Won’t Do For You

5 Tips for Writing a Novella that Wows Readers

Plot Twist Story Prompts: Breaking News

Respectfully Depicting a Character Adapting to a Disability

Relationship Thesaurus Entry: Principal and Teacher

Two Words that Will Supercharge Your Writing Career

Building Your Writing Support Triangle, Part 1: Critique

How Agents Prepare an Offer of Representation

Why the YA dystopia craze finally burned out (mostly I don't care just glad it did, not my fave)