X For Writers

KH Articles

• HOW TO DETERMINE YOUR WRITING STYLE – blog posting written for Fantasy, Futuristic & Paranormal Chapter of RWA (Sept 2011)
• HOW WRITER’S VISUALIZE
• CREATING SUPER POWERS: From a guest post done on July 16th  @ the The Bookish Snob 
• SELF-PUBLISHING REFERENCE MATERIAL: updated when I get the chance)
• Is Self-Publishing / E Publishing the New Black? – Considerations for Self-publishing (PDF handout from the Baltimore Book Festival – Sept 2011)
  

Notable Links for Writer Helps by other authors

Rachel Aaron’s Blog Post: How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day. This is a wonderful for process as well as methodology to increase your daily word count.

Jim Butcher Blog/Forum for Writers (listed in the order he posted): 

• Story Craft (9/21/2004)
• Conflict, Logical Response, Point of View (9/23/2004)
• Fundamentals – Story Skeletons (9/29/2004)
• Characters (2/10/2005)
• The Great Swampy Middle (7/11/2006)
• Scenes (12/28/2006)
• Sequels (12/29/2006)
• Story Climax (11/19/2007)
• Putting it all together (4/23/2008)

Pacing/Story Arc – Wonderful 5 minute video by the Penny-Arcade on pacing using Star Wars. This is targeted toward video game developers but the approach is the same for designing a fictional story.

So you Want to be a Writer? Advice to a 10-year-old – Good advice on the Writer Life from comic book writer Ron Marz

Writer’s Must Kill Self-doubt Before Self-doubt Kills Them – Great advice from Chuck Wendig’s blog

Eisley Jacob’s blog: Indie-Bound Wrap Up – Over two weeks of folks around the indie publishing industry posting their insights and findings to help other indie authors.

• Day One: Indie Author: Denise Grover Swank and Indie Editor: Jim Thomsen – Importance of an editor
• Day Two: Indie Author: Breanna Teintze – What’s it like being an indie author? Like being a traditional author, only more so.
• Day Three: Indie Author: LK Gardner-Griffie – Her story about the Indie Road
• Day Four: Indie Author: Anne Riley – Interview (Agent to submission to indie)
• Day Five: Indie Author: Deborah Riley-Mangus – To Be or Not To Be?
• Day Six: Indie Author: Heather McCorkle – From agent to submission to indie
• Day Seven: Indie Author: Jolyn Palliata – The Stigma of Self Publishing
• Day Eight: Indie Author: Trish McCallan – Hard Choices
• Day Nine: Branli Caidryn – Going rogue! –err Indie
• Day Ten: Jeena Papaadi – Writes and gives a few pointers about her indie experience.
• Day Eleven: Claudie H. Christian – 5 things a NYT bestselling author will tell you about publishing after a few shots of tequila
• Day Twelve: Kristie Cook – How I decided to go Indie.
• Day Thirteen: Cassandra Marshall – Talks about the importance of an editor
• Day Fourteen: Donna and Alex Carrick – Chat about books, e-books and the changing publishing industry.
• Day Fifteen: Penny Holguin – It’s not called failure, it’s called experience!
• Day Sixteen: Megan Curd – Interview about her book BRIDGER and her upcoming releases.
• Day Seventeen: Icy Sedgwick – Publishing with an Indie Small Press

 Corgis for those who love them:

Just for fun and because I have several writer friends who fit this! 🙂