by Kathy Owen, @kbowenwriter
Elizabeth invited me to share with you one of my favorite classic detective novels, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles. I love talking about the classics with fellow mystery lovers!
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-02) has been regarded by current and contemporary Sherlockians as the best of the four novels. Since its publication, it has been adapted dozens of times for radio, film, and television.Continue reading
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
I received an email last week from a writer who is feeling a little overwhelmed by the revision process and asked if I’d written any posts that helped to sort of sort through revision in an organized way.
And my first reaction was, besides completely understanding why anyone would feel overwhelmed, was: “Oh sure, I’ve got gobs of blog posts like that.” But…no. Although I talk a lot about my need for revision and stuff I’ve had to fix in the past, and the fact that I don’t edit while I draft–I had no posts at all about how I organize and approach revision. So I’ll correct that now. And, looking at my process below, I’m thinking that one reason I might not have outlined this before is because it so closely resembles my process for writing a book that maybe I thought I’d repeat myself.Continue reading
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
Twitterific links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine(developed by 
writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 23,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers.
Have a great week!
The Two Main Characters – A Writer’s Worksheet: http://dld.bz/dfKNE @amandaonwriting
5 Ways Authors Can Recycle Their Discarded Material: http://ow.ly/sJaFZ @vgrefer
Sing with Your Inner Voice (& Write It All Down). ~ Caroline Brown http://ow.ly/sJaYV @elephantjournal
Fiction writing: When you might want to use passive construction | Into Another World http://ow.ly/sJb3d
Sarcasm in narration: http://dld.bz/dfKK5 @rfwritersContinue reading
by Delia Brendan, @deliabrendan
Years ago, I went to a plotting workshop. The workshop leader described a process involving white poster board and multi-colored sticky notes. She described how each sticky note color corresponded to various plot elements. At the end of the exercise, she showed the group a completed plot map and explained how this process could help you from getting bogged down during drafting.
As a visual person, I loved the concept of working from a map. So, I dutifully went out and bought white poster board and enough sticky notes to outfit a corporation. As an organizationally-challenged over thinker, I was soon mired down in details. Was Dr. Venom’s mother from Siberia a blue sticky note because she was related to a bad guy or a green sticky note because she befriends the heroine? No surprise, I never wound up with a plot map and I’m still pulling sticky notes out of sock drawers and couch cushions. Continue reading
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
There’s an interesting phenomenon when you comb through your RSS reader—even if you have a large number of blogs that you’re following. Sometimes it’s as if everyone got an idea for a particular blog post at the same time. This is natural when you’re talking about posts on a topical issue (publishing news) but a little eerie when it happens spontaneously, with nothing prompting it.
So I recently came across and shared or scheduled for sharing, four different posts in a week’s time, that either linked to material on the same topic, or posted on that topic. So we’ve got “400+ Ways to Kill a Character” from Clever Girl Helps, “How to Successfully Kill a Character—the Checklist” from K.M. Weiland, “How to Kill Your Main Character” from Rhiannon Paille, and “Murder 101—7 Reasons to Kill Your Character” from Robert Smedley.Continue reading