Sarah Beth Durst's Blog, page 49
July 8, 2012
VESSEL Countdown Widget
As I mentioned last post, I'm starting to get unreasonably excited about the upcoming publication of Vessel, now just two months away!!! And since I'm now, quite literally, counting the days, I figured I'd make the countdown a bit more official by adding a snazzy little countdown widget to the Vessel page of my site. Check it out:
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If you'd like to join in my countdown, please feel free to grab it for your site/blog/etc by clicking the "Get Widget" button.
Let the countdown begin!!!
Get the Countdown Creator Pro widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (More info)
If you'd like to join in my countdown, please feel free to grab it for your site/blog/etc by clicking the "Get Widget" button.
Let the countdown begin!!!
July 4, 2012
Website Makeover and VESSEL Excerpt
Happy Fourth of July! (Or, to those of you outside the US, happy random Wednesday!) Today, I did all the traditional Fourth of July things:
- Cooked hamburgers and hotdogs. Except I cooked them on the stove instead of the barbecue grill because a squadron of yellow jackets has colonized the grill, and I chose to grant them their independence. So sweet of me. Or cowardly. But let's go with sweet.
- Watched fireworks. On TV, because it's so much calmer and simpler that way. No parking. No crowds. No mosquitoes. And total access to my fridge (which is also, incidentally, a lovely perk of being a writer). I don't really understand why the Washington DC fireworks are always shown hidden behind a bugle corp. Makes the fireworks look like one of those cheesy school picture backdrops. But I adore the Manhattan fireworks with their four barges worth of fireworks in sync to the music.
- Updated my website. Okay, maybe that's not really traditional in the, um, traditional sense of the word. But in addition to being the birthday of our nation, it's now about two months until the pub date for my next novel, Vessel, so I gave my website (and the backdrop of this blog) a Vessel-centric makeover. Click here to check it out!
And while I was Vessel-izing the site, I decided that today marks the official beginning of my personal countdown to Vessel (during which I will get more and more deliriously excited as we get closer to September!!!).
So I posted the first two chapters of Vessel on my site! Hope you like it!
Here's a taste.....
On the day she was to die, Liyana walked out of her family's tent to see the dawn. She buried her toes in the sand, cold from the night, and she wrapped her father's goatskin cloak tight around her shoulders. She had only moments before everyone would wake.
She fixed her eyes on the east, where the sky was bleached yellow in anticipation. Shadows marked each ridge, rock, and sand dune. Overhead, a few stubborn stars continued to cling to the sky, and a raven, black as a splinter of night, flew into the wind before angling toward the dark peaks of the distant mountains. Liyana felt the wind caress her cheeks and stir her hair. She'd left it loose last night, and she'd counted the strands when she couldn't sleep. The wind stirred the sand at her feet, and it whistled over the dunes and rocks. She listened to it so intensely that every muscle in her body felt taut.
She had wanted to be calm today.
Click here to read through the end of chapter two.
Go ahead. I'll wait.
*taps feet*
*tries to whistle, but fails*
*hums*
Yay, you're back! Did you like it?! Did ya?!?! Did ya?!?!?!
- Cooked hamburgers and hotdogs. Except I cooked them on the stove instead of the barbecue grill because a squadron of yellow jackets has colonized the grill, and I chose to grant them their independence. So sweet of me. Or cowardly. But let's go with sweet.
- Watched fireworks. On TV, because it's so much calmer and simpler that way. No parking. No crowds. No mosquitoes. And total access to my fridge (which is also, incidentally, a lovely perk of being a writer). I don't really understand why the Washington DC fireworks are always shown hidden behind a bugle corp. Makes the fireworks look like one of those cheesy school picture backdrops. But I adore the Manhattan fireworks with their four barges worth of fireworks in sync to the music.
- Updated my website. Okay, maybe that's not really traditional in the, um, traditional sense of the word. But in addition to being the birthday of our nation, it's now about two months until the pub date for my next novel, Vessel, so I gave my website (and the backdrop of this blog) a Vessel-centric makeover. Click here to check it out!
And while I was Vessel-izing the site, I decided that today marks the official beginning of my personal countdown to Vessel (during which I will get more and more deliriously excited as we get closer to September!!!).
So I posted the first two chapters of Vessel on my site! Hope you like it!
Here's a taste.....
On the day she was to die, Liyana walked out of her family's tent to see the dawn. She buried her toes in the sand, cold from the night, and she wrapped her father's goatskin cloak tight around her shoulders. She had only moments before everyone would wake.
She fixed her eyes on the east, where the sky was bleached yellow in anticipation. Shadows marked each ridge, rock, and sand dune. Overhead, a few stubborn stars continued to cling to the sky, and a raven, black as a splinter of night, flew into the wind before angling toward the dark peaks of the distant mountains. Liyana felt the wind caress her cheeks and stir her hair. She'd left it loose last night, and she'd counted the strands when she couldn't sleep. The wind stirred the sand at her feet, and it whistled over the dunes and rocks. She listened to it so intensely that every muscle in her body felt taut.
She had wanted to be calm today.
Click here to read through the end of chapter two.
Go ahead. I'll wait.
*taps feet*
*tries to whistle, but fails*
*hums*
Yay, you're back! Did you like it?! Did ya?!?! Did ya?!?!?!
June 7, 2012
BEA 2012 Trip Report
This week, I spent Tuesday and Wednesday at BEA (BookExpo America, an annual publishing industry convention in NYC) and have decided that next year, I am going to create a pre-BEA training regimen so that when the convention ends, I won't feel as if I've been pushed through a colander. It will involve tote-bag-carrying exercises, an endurance test in which I stand for as many hours as I can handle, and an obstacle course in which many people swing heavy bags of books at me as I try to walk down a narrow passageway.
Despite the achy feet and shoulders, though, I love BEA. I think the best thing about it is that everyone in the whole vast enormous conference center has one thing in common: a love for books.
Here are a couple photos that I took:
First, because I know at least someone is wondering, here are the books that I carted home. (The sideways one with the title you can't see is a wonderful picture book called The Tiptoe Guide to Tracking Mermaids.)
And here is my view from my hotel room. Notice the itty-bitty moon in the morning-blue sky. This view was rather magical, and I half expected to see dragons curled on top of all the water towers or chimney sweeps dancing with Mary Poppins...
Here is Tim Gunn. Not because I met him. (I didn't.) But because he's Tim Gunn, and I totally want to install him in my writing room and have him say, "Make it work," at key moments.
Lastly, here are me and Clifford. Clifford didn't say much, but I had so many great conversations with so many fantastic people that it more than made up for Clifford's silence.
I failed to take any pictures of my signing, but thank you to everyone who came! I signed lots of copies of Drink, Slay, Love, gave away lots of Vessel bookmarks and postcards, and had a blast!
And to those of you I missed seeing at BEA, so sorry I missed you!
Can't wait for next year! After my training regimen, of course.
Despite the achy feet and shoulders, though, I love BEA. I think the best thing about it is that everyone in the whole vast enormous conference center has one thing in common: a love for books.
Here are a couple photos that I took:
First, because I know at least someone is wondering, here are the books that I carted home. (The sideways one with the title you can't see is a wonderful picture book called The Tiptoe Guide to Tracking Mermaids.)
And here is my view from my hotel room. Notice the itty-bitty moon in the morning-blue sky. This view was rather magical, and I half expected to see dragons curled on top of all the water towers or chimney sweeps dancing with Mary Poppins...
Here is Tim Gunn. Not because I met him. (I didn't.) But because he's Tim Gunn, and I totally want to install him in my writing room and have him say, "Make it work," at key moments.
Lastly, here are me and Clifford. Clifford didn't say much, but I had so many great conversations with so many fantastic people that it more than made up for Clifford's silence.
I failed to take any pictures of my signing, but thank you to everyone who came! I signed lots of copies of Drink, Slay, Love, gave away lots of Vessel bookmarks and postcards, and had a blast!
And to those of you I missed seeing at BEA, so sorry I missed you!
Can't wait for next year! After my training regimen, of course.
June 2, 2012
Stuff I Did in May
It's June.
I like June. But I love May. I love the leaves popping out of the trees, the new flowers, the baby animals, and all the other life-is-great, rah-rah-rah moments. Also, the lack of mosquitoes.
Some things I did in May:
- Got a year older and discovered the true joy of Facebook: all the lovely birthday wishes. Also ate a Carvel ice cream cake. (It's my birthday tradition. My husband promised me when we got married that he'd always get me a Carvel ice cream cake for my birthday. It was practically part of our wedding vows.)
- Picked strawberries. They were melt-in-your-mouth delicious. And when you mixed in sugar, they were divine. (Yes, I do judge the quality of a month by its food.)
- Saw a deer in my backyard. I attempted to sneak closer in a bid to befriend it like Snow White, but it bolted. Later, I told a friend about it, and he said, "Were you scared?" At the time, I thought this was a comment on my usual lack of bravery. But then I started thinking... Should I have been scared? Are there man-eating deer on Long Island? So I am now on the lookout for carnivorous Bambis.
- Turned in SWEET NOTHINGS to my editor at Walker / Bloomsbury. Yay!
- Walked a red carpet with thirteen other YA authors and then was followed by a marching band at a book festival called Authors Unlimited:
- Attended my high school reunion and did not claim that I invented Post-Its.
So that pretty much sums up the month. In June, I'm diving into a new writing project, attending BEA (BookExpo America), and watching out for vicious deer.
For those of you attending BEA, please stop by the SFWA booth (#3591) on Wednesday June 6th at 2pm. I'll be signing copies of DRINK, SLAY, LOVE and would love to say hi!
I like June. But I love May. I love the leaves popping out of the trees, the new flowers, the baby animals, and all the other life-is-great, rah-rah-rah moments. Also, the lack of mosquitoes.
Some things I did in May:
- Got a year older and discovered the true joy of Facebook: all the lovely birthday wishes. Also ate a Carvel ice cream cake. (It's my birthday tradition. My husband promised me when we got married that he'd always get me a Carvel ice cream cake for my birthday. It was practically part of our wedding vows.)
- Picked strawberries. They were melt-in-your-mouth delicious. And when you mixed in sugar, they were divine. (Yes, I do judge the quality of a month by its food.)
- Saw a deer in my backyard. I attempted to sneak closer in a bid to befriend it like Snow White, but it bolted. Later, I told a friend about it, and he said, "Were you scared?" At the time, I thought this was a comment on my usual lack of bravery. But then I started thinking... Should I have been scared? Are there man-eating deer on Long Island? So I am now on the lookout for carnivorous Bambis.
- Turned in SWEET NOTHINGS to my editor at Walker / Bloomsbury. Yay!
- Walked a red carpet with thirteen other YA authors and then was followed by a marching band at a book festival called Authors Unlimited:
- Attended my high school reunion and did not claim that I invented Post-Its.
So that pretty much sums up the month. In June, I'm diving into a new writing project, attending BEA (BookExpo America), and watching out for vicious deer.
For those of you attending BEA, please stop by the SFWA booth (#3591) on Wednesday June 6th at 2pm. I'll be signing copies of DRINK, SLAY, LOVE and would love to say hi!
April 26, 2012
Authors Unlimited This Saturday
On Saturday, I'll be walking the red carpet.
I am one of the guest authors at Authors Unlimited, a teen book festival in Patchogue, NY, this Saturday (4/28). Details are here.
I'm told that we'll be brought to the venue by limo and then proceed down a red carpet accompanied by a drum-and-bugle corps. Hee-hee! And then there will be a panel with all fourteen authors, followed by breakout sessions with individual author presentations, culminating in a big book signing.
Here's me (and Drink, Slay, Love) in yesterday's Newsday (Long Island newspaper) talking about the event:
I am totally practicing my princess wave.
I am one of the guest authors at Authors Unlimited, a teen book festival in Patchogue, NY, this Saturday (4/28). Details are here.
I'm told that we'll be brought to the venue by limo and then proceed down a red carpet accompanied by a drum-and-bugle corps. Hee-hee! And then there will be a panel with all fourteen authors, followed by breakout sessions with individual author presentations, culminating in a big book signing.
Here's me (and Drink, Slay, Love) in yesterday's Newsday (Long Island newspaper) talking about the event:
I am totally practicing my princess wave.
April 16, 2012
Planting Fields Arboretum
I have discovered a beautiful place!
Okay, maybe "discovered" isn't the right word since I didn't exactly plant a flag and claim it in the name of Spain. But I'd never been there before.
The place is called Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay, NY, and it's four hundred acres of loveliness. I went two weekends in a row because:
1. It has purdy flowers.
I really, really want to plant these at my house. I don't know what they are, though. Plus I have the most non-green thumb imaginable. It's more of a fuchsia thumb. I have slaughtered cacti with my fuchsia thumb.
These were in the greenhouse. Aren't they ridiculously perfect looking? I actually touched one to reassure myself it wasn't a plastic flower sprayed with perfume.
So purdy!!!
2. It's really organized.
I consider myself an organized person. In fact, when I make my grocery list, I sort the items by supermarket aisle. But this place puts me to shame. It has a synoptic garden in which all the flowers and trees are planted in alphabetical order by Latin genus.
Since visiting, I've had the overwhelming urge to alphabetize my books, my spices, and my socks. I am foiled by the fact that it's not easy to alphabetize socks. But I will not give up! Never give up, never surrender!
3. The gardeners cage the really dangerous plants.
Inside the greenhouse, the most dangerous flowers are kept in iron cages. This is obviously because if they taste human blood, they transform into evil faeries who steal iPhones.
4. Except the Whomping Willow.
Come on, tell me this doesn't look exactly like a real-life whomping willow:
It's a weeping linden tree, and it has a sign in front of it that reads, "Please do not climb on this rare tree... because it will eat you."
(I may have added that last part myself.)
5. The gardeners have created mystical tunnels out of trees that will lead you to magical realms.
This is a single tree, coaxed into the shape of a tunnel.
If you follow it, you will end up either in Pemberley:
Or Wonderland.
(The cards have half-finished painting those roses red.)
And for all these reasons, this place has officially shot to the top of my list of "favorite places on Long Island."
I now claim the Planting Fields Arboretum in the name of Spain.
Okay, maybe "discovered" isn't the right word since I didn't exactly plant a flag and claim it in the name of Spain. But I'd never been there before.
The place is called Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay, NY, and it's four hundred acres of loveliness. I went two weekends in a row because:
1. It has purdy flowers.
I really, really want to plant these at my house. I don't know what they are, though. Plus I have the most non-green thumb imaginable. It's more of a fuchsia thumb. I have slaughtered cacti with my fuchsia thumb.
These were in the greenhouse. Aren't they ridiculously perfect looking? I actually touched one to reassure myself it wasn't a plastic flower sprayed with perfume.
So purdy!!!
2. It's really organized.
I consider myself an organized person. In fact, when I make my grocery list, I sort the items by supermarket aisle. But this place puts me to shame. It has a synoptic garden in which all the flowers and trees are planted in alphabetical order by Latin genus.
Since visiting, I've had the overwhelming urge to alphabetize my books, my spices, and my socks. I am foiled by the fact that it's not easy to alphabetize socks. But I will not give up! Never give up, never surrender!
3. The gardeners cage the really dangerous plants.
Inside the greenhouse, the most dangerous flowers are kept in iron cages. This is obviously because if they taste human blood, they transform into evil faeries who steal iPhones.
4. Except the Whomping Willow.
Come on, tell me this doesn't look exactly like a real-life whomping willow:
It's a weeping linden tree, and it has a sign in front of it that reads, "Please do not climb on this rare tree... because it will eat you."
(I may have added that last part myself.)
5. The gardeners have created mystical tunnels out of trees that will lead you to magical realms.
This is a single tree, coaxed into the shape of a tunnel.
If you follow it, you will end up either in Pemberley:
Or Wonderland.
(The cards have half-finished painting those roses red.)
And for all these reasons, this place has officially shot to the top of my list of "favorite places on Long Island."
I now claim the Planting Fields Arboretum in the name of Spain.
March 26, 2012
2012 NYC Teen Author Festival
If you're in or near NYC...
This week is the NYC Teen Author Festival!
It runs from March 26th to April 1st, includes tons of panels and readings, and culminates in a massive multi-author book signing at Books of Wonder. You can see the full schedule here.
I'll be participating in two of the events:
Wednesday, March 28th
42nd St NYPL*, Bergen Forum, 6-8pm
Things Fall Apart: World Building and World Destroying in YA
Chris Shoemaker (moderator)
Anna Carey
Sarah Beth Durst
Anne Heltzel
Jeff Hirsch
Andy Marino
Lauren McLaughlin
Lissa Price
Jon Skovron
* Yes, the one with the lions! I love those lions.
Sunday, April 1st
Books of Wonder, 18 West 18th Street, 1-4pm
Our No-Foolin' Mega-Signing at Books of Wonder
Sixty-five authors will be signing in shifts throughout the afternoon. My shift is from 1-1:45pm and includes the following fabulous authors:
Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Every Other Day, Egmont)
Matt Blackstone (A Scary Scene in a Scary Movie, FSG)
Caroline Bock (LIE, St. Martin's)
Jen Calonita (Belles, Little Brown)
Anna Carey (Eve, Harper)
Susane Colasanti (So Much Closer, Penguin)
Andrea Cremer (Bloodrose, Penguin)
Gina Damico (Croak, HMH)
Emily Danforth (The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Harper)
Jocelyn Davies (A Beautiful Dark, Harper)
Sarah Beth Durst (Drink, Slay, Love, S&S)
Elizabeth Eulberg (Take a Bow, Scholastic)
Gayle Forman (Where She Went, Penguin)
Natasha Friend (For Keeps, Penguin)
Kim Harrington (Perception, Scholastic)
Barry Lyga (I Hunt Killers, Little Brown)
Daisy Whitney (The Rivals, Little Brown)
All of this is organized by the incredible David Levithan.
I'm really, really excited for these events. If you're in the area, I hope you'll come!
This week is the NYC Teen Author Festival!
It runs from March 26th to April 1st, includes tons of panels and readings, and culminates in a massive multi-author book signing at Books of Wonder. You can see the full schedule here.
I'll be participating in two of the events:
Wednesday, March 28th
42nd St NYPL*, Bergen Forum, 6-8pm
Things Fall Apart: World Building and World Destroying in YA
Chris Shoemaker (moderator)
Anna Carey
Sarah Beth Durst
Anne Heltzel
Jeff Hirsch
Andy Marino
Lauren McLaughlin
Lissa Price
Jon Skovron
* Yes, the one with the lions! I love those lions.
Sunday, April 1st
Books of Wonder, 18 West 18th Street, 1-4pm
Our No-Foolin' Mega-Signing at Books of Wonder
Sixty-five authors will be signing in shifts throughout the afternoon. My shift is from 1-1:45pm and includes the following fabulous authors:
Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Every Other Day, Egmont)
Matt Blackstone (A Scary Scene in a Scary Movie, FSG)
Caroline Bock (LIE, St. Martin's)
Jen Calonita (Belles, Little Brown)
Anna Carey (Eve, Harper)
Susane Colasanti (So Much Closer, Penguin)
Andrea Cremer (Bloodrose, Penguin)
Gina Damico (Croak, HMH)
Emily Danforth (The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Harper)
Jocelyn Davies (A Beautiful Dark, Harper)
Sarah Beth Durst (Drink, Slay, Love, S&S)
Elizabeth Eulberg (Take a Bow, Scholastic)
Gayle Forman (Where She Went, Penguin)
Natasha Friend (For Keeps, Penguin)
Kim Harrington (Perception, Scholastic)
Barry Lyga (I Hunt Killers, Little Brown)
Daisy Whitney (The Rivals, Little Brown)
All of this is organized by the incredible David Levithan.
I'm really, really excited for these events. If you're in the area, I hope you'll come!
March 4, 2012
Announcing SWEET NOTHINGS
I have been keeping a secret...
*tip-toes, looks furtive*
Not about the portal to other worlds in my basement. Everyone knows about that. But a better secret... books!
I sold two new books!!!
Excuse me while I add a few more exclamation points to that.
TWO NEW BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here's the announcement in Publishers Marketplace:
Children's: Young Adult
Sarah Beth Durst's SWEET NOTHINGS, about a teen in the paranormal witness protection program, who, haunted by dreams of carnival tents and tarot cards, must remember her past and why she has strange abilities before a magic-wielding serial killer hunts her down, to Emily Easton at Walker Children's, in a very nice deal, in a two-book deal, by Andrea Somberg at Harvey Klinger (world).
SWEET NOTHINGS will be published in fall 2013, followed by a second TBD book in fall 2014. (Both of these follow VESSEL, of course, which comes out in fall 2012.) I am, as you might imagine, over-the-moon excited about this, and I hope you'll join me in performing the traditional Snoopy dance of joy!!!
*tip-toes, looks furtive*
Not about the portal to other worlds in my basement. Everyone knows about that. But a better secret... books!
I sold two new books!!!
Excuse me while I add a few more exclamation points to that.
TWO NEW BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here's the announcement in Publishers Marketplace:
Children's: Young Adult
Sarah Beth Durst's SWEET NOTHINGS, about a teen in the paranormal witness protection program, who, haunted by dreams of carnival tents and tarot cards, must remember her past and why she has strange abilities before a magic-wielding serial killer hunts her down, to Emily Easton at Walker Children's, in a very nice deal, in a two-book deal, by Andrea Somberg at Harvey Klinger (world).
SWEET NOTHINGS will be published in fall 2013, followed by a second TBD book in fall 2014. (Both of these follow VESSEL, of course, which comes out in fall 2012.) I am, as you might imagine, over-the-moon excited about this, and I hope you'll join me in performing the traditional Snoopy dance of joy!!!
February 8, 2012
Ice - Hüter des Nordens
I am very pleased to announce that the German translation of Ice -- Ice - Hüter Des Nordens -- is now available in Germany!
This makes me want to fly to Germany immediately and croon "happy book birthday" to the copies on the bookstore shelves.
Since that's not really practical (and would make me look crazy), I attempted to find a YouTube clip of someone singing happy birthday in German. Instead, I found multiple videos of people trying to teach their German shepherds to sing happy birthday.
I really love the Internet.
And I love my German publisher, Egmont/LYX, for making this book possible!
This makes me want to fly to Germany immediately and croon "happy book birthday" to the copies on the bookstore shelves.
Since that's not really practical (and would make me look crazy), I attempted to find a YouTube clip of someone singing happy birthday in German. Instead, I found multiple videos of people trying to teach their German shepherds to sing happy birthday.
I really love the Internet.
And I love my German publisher, Egmont/LYX, for making this book possible!
January 24, 2012
Lots of Links about Writing
I am going to a writing retreat in Vermont called Kindling Words this weekend. An entire weekend of nothing but writing and talking about writing! I am so so so excited. For one thing, the people are fantastic. For another, this retreat comes at the perfect time for me with my work-in-progress. I'm in the produce-as-much-as-possible stage, and I intend to write a stunningly tremendous amount this weekend.
Since I'm about to head off to think, talk, and do writing, I thought I'd share with you some writing-related links that I recently bookmarked. (Note: I don't agree with everything in all of these, but I did find them all interesting.)
Just-Do-It General Advice:
"25 Things Writers Should Stop Doing" by Chuck Wendig
"25 Things Writers Should Start Doing" by Chuck Wendig
"So You Want to Be a Writer... Advice to a 10 Year Old" by Ron Marz
Finding Inspiration:
"What Inspires" by Sara Zarr
"Where Do You Get Your Ideas?" by Neil Gaiman
Avoiding Pitfalls:
"Measuring Success" by Mette Ivie Harrison
"Oh, the Internet" by Kiersten White
Personal Experiences:
"Turning Points" by Gayle Forman
"You Have Mentioned Several Times..." by Sarah Rees Brennan
"Starting a New Book" by Kate Messner
"What's Your Favorite Anecdote About Learning How to Write?" by S.C. Butler
"Writing for Writing's Sake" by Rhonda Stapleton
Techniques of Super-Fast Writers:
"How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day" by Rachel Aaron
"The 10,000 Word Day" by Zoe Winters
"Kicking Out a Fast First Draft" by Anne Greenwood Brown
Sites with Lots of Great Writing-Related Posts:
Nova Ren Suma's distraction no. 99
John Scalzi's Whatever
Chuck Wendig's Terrible Minds
For a list of older links to writing-related posts and articles, please click here and here.
Happy writing!
Since I'm about to head off to think, talk, and do writing, I thought I'd share with you some writing-related links that I recently bookmarked. (Note: I don't agree with everything in all of these, but I did find them all interesting.)
Just-Do-It General Advice:
"25 Things Writers Should Stop Doing" by Chuck Wendig
"25 Things Writers Should Start Doing" by Chuck Wendig
"So You Want to Be a Writer... Advice to a 10 Year Old" by Ron Marz
Finding Inspiration:
"What Inspires" by Sara Zarr
"Where Do You Get Your Ideas?" by Neil Gaiman
Avoiding Pitfalls:
"Measuring Success" by Mette Ivie Harrison
"Oh, the Internet" by Kiersten White
Personal Experiences:
"Turning Points" by Gayle Forman
"You Have Mentioned Several Times..." by Sarah Rees Brennan
"Starting a New Book" by Kate Messner
"What's Your Favorite Anecdote About Learning How to Write?" by S.C. Butler
"Writing for Writing's Sake" by Rhonda Stapleton
Techniques of Super-Fast Writers:
"How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day" by Rachel Aaron
"The 10,000 Word Day" by Zoe Winters
"Kicking Out a Fast First Draft" by Anne Greenwood Brown
Sites with Lots of Great Writing-Related Posts:
Nova Ren Suma's distraction no. 99
John Scalzi's Whatever
Chuck Wendig's Terrible Minds
For a list of older links to writing-related posts and articles, please click here and here.
Happy writing!
