Song playing right now on my playlist: “Anywhere Out of the World” by Dead Can Dance
Writing and the Writing Life:
- Margie Lawson has a guest post on Fresh, Fresh, Fresh Character Descriptions!
- Just discovered this yesterday and have already put it to good use. Scan Your Work For Overused Phrases, Words, and Clichés, and Monitor Words and Phrases. Best of all? It’s Free! I’ve already modified what it searches for to catch other things as well, like filter words.
- Great post from Janice Hardy on Deep POV–Living in My Head: Crafting Natural-Sounding Internal Thoughts
- Jami Gold asks us What Do We “Owe” New Writers?
- Been to a conference? Help weigh in on Roni Loren’s post: Does SWAG Sell Books?
Browncoats:
- Shiny! A fan did this mashup, making a Firefly-style intro for Avengers
- Happy Birthday Joss Whedon!!
In Geekdom:
- And I’ll leave you with this, it’s the Harry Potter theme played on wine glasses:
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L.J. Kentowski
/ June 23, 2012Love the Smart Edit site, I’ve bookmarked it! Thanks for all the great links this week!
writersinthestorm
/ June 23, 2012Thanks for sharing Margie’s post in your Grab Bag. You’ve got some fun stuff this week-end!
-Fae Rowen
ellaquinnauthor
/ June 23, 2012You’ve been busy. I tweeted.
Kate Warren
/ June 23, 2012Great roundup, as usual!
Jami Gold
/ June 23, 2012Ha! I played the video and had half the family watching over my shoulder. Great find!
I’m off to check out some of the other links too. Thanks for including mine!
Angela Quarles
/ June 23, 2012Wasn’t it fun? I couldn’t help but think that it must have taken a lot of time to figure out and set up!
jamieayres
/ June 23, 2012That video was AWESOME! I’m gonna have to try that Scan Your Work–thanks for sharing:)
Monica T. Rodriguez
/ June 24, 2012Great links in this post. The articles on internal dialogue and character description are valuable for any writer. And the SmartEdit scanner is AWESOME. It doesn’t replace your own editing (and it shouldn’t), but it will help you if you know there are words you use too much or that you have a penchant for adverbs. And it will point out words you didn’t know you overuse or if you’re leaning on certain cliches. A terrific tool for writers. And FREE. How can you beat that!
Margie Lawson
/ June 24, 2012Angela –
Thanks so much for posting about my blog on writing fresh character descriptions. I appreciate you!
Love your Weekend Grab Bag. I’ll be back.
Writerlious
/ June 26, 2012Oh so fun –this weekend grab’s the best idea!