Last week I took time out to compose some flash fiction, and pickings were light in any case, mainly because I’m still travelling. So here’s a round up of some of the links I picked up and tweeted in the last two weeks or so.
Scott Myers at GITS will be analysing a draft script of ” “Gladiator” all week – script available online!
Labor day: Writers’ memories of factories – Paris Review and Jeff Cohen celebrates unions – http://t.co/0wikK3G
New opportunities for short form authors in the e-reader age – The Book Deal
“Meat hacks mind and mind hacks meat” Elizabeth Bear on speculative fiction and the Singularity
NOW is the time to start #NaNoWriMo: Alexandra Sokoloff
How assumptions about power shape character @JulietteWade
A plague on your movie.. or book. Contagions in fiction. Paris Review
Skills writers need. I’d add ‘commitment to finish projects’ – my own failing @CherylRWrites #writing
It’s more important to make a character compelling than likeable: T.N. Tobias
You can learn as much from a book you hate as one you love. #writing
If you’re outlining for #NaNoWriMo right now this terribleminds post is a must-read @ChuckWendig
OK, I’m in for #NaNoWriMo this year.. my prep method: many many prompted free writes from which I’ll select story ‘tentpoles’ #writing
another frustrating book mined for writing lessons. book view cafe blog
It’s not me, it’s you. Author dumps publisher for misrepresenting her as chicklit writer (at launch party!)
This last prompted a discussion with @TheresaStevens about the difference between romance and chick lit. She kindly offered this tweet-length distinction:
Romance is folkloric in origin & structure. Chick lit is a modern coming-of-age tale. Both are for female readers, though.
Congratulations to Literary Lab’s @LadyGlamis on the publication of her book!
“marketing is like plastic surgery: you only notice it when it’s done badly” – blogging and seduction @justinemusk
I have Nicholson Baker’s House of Holes lined up. Meanwhile The Millions rounds up responses to the joyous muckiness
GF Bailey: a Margaret Atwood essay: “plots… just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.” #NaNoWriMo
