Ah, another Saturday morning and I’m sipping a cup of Yerba Maté tea and listening to the sweet sounds of raccoons fighting in the ceiling and walls above and around me. Song playing right now on my playlist: “He Won’t Go,” Adele.
Writing and the Writing Life:
- Jami Gold has an awesome spreadsheet linked in her post How to Use the “Save the Cat” Beat Sheet for Revisions
- Christi Barth asks Do Writers Have To Be Method Actors?
- Janice Hardy has some advice on The Faceless Villain: What to do When Your Bad Guy Isn’t a Person
- Considering e-pubbing? Jane Friedman has 10 Questions to Ask Before Committing to Any E-Publishing Service
- Juliette Wade has some good advice no matter your setting: TTYU Retro: What “Home” Means – to your character and your story
- Faced with revisions? Mooderino has some good advice: Writing and the Ugly Duck Syndrome
Kristen Lamb has a great idea for a different kind of critique group: A New Approach to a Traditional Group–The Concept Critique
Romance Writers:
- OMG, check out this cover! If Noam Chomsky wrote a Romance
- Romance University has a guy weighing in: Handsome Hansel – A Man’s Eye View of the World of Romance
- The women at SBTB reviewed Kirshenbaum’s book, The Science of Kissing
Jane Austen:
- Over at the new blog, The Popular Romance Project, Dr. Sarah Frantz wrote a piece called Austen, romance novelist about the reluctance of some Janeites to call her books Romances because it’s good literature, so of course it can’t be Romance…
Browncoats:
- An artist has done some awesome posters of different sci-fi favorites reworked various ways. Here’s his Firefly Muppets mashup
Randomness and Geekdom:
- Charles Dickens’ birthday was this week, so here’s a map of London with all the places he lived
- Bookstore kitties from around the world
- Novis Nerdfest – Sci-Fi medley with BSG, Dr. Who and Firefly among others…
- If the Lord of the Rings characters were band instruments poster
- And I’ll leave you with this: If Shakespeare had written The Three Little Pigs…
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