Ink Links Roundup

I’m going to start off this week’s post with something fun, because I can’t be the only one who loves the how-many-have-you-read list/quizzes: NPR’s 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels. There are some amazing books on that list – and those are just the ones I’ve read!

I love Terri Windling’s blog Myth & Moor, and recently found this post on stories that matter.

Kate found this excellent article about the romantic storyline – or, rather, lack of it – in Rogue One.

Love love love this. It was the biggest relief in the whole movie, and encourages me to write more true, strong heroines.

And this: My Little Ponies: Like 4-H but for Weirdos.

This is quite possibly my favourite link of the whole year (and it’s only just started!). Check out this excerpt below:

“You could get away with anything, if you made it fluffy and pink enough. You could destroy the whole world, as long as you were willing to cover it in glitter first.

Oh, this was going to be fun.

My Ponies—which, by this point, filled most of my bedroom at any given time, since I would build them cities out of playsets combined with cardboard boxes that I had modified to suit my needs—began a multi-generational saga of false queens, royal espionage, forgotten princesses, kidnappings, murders, and a thousand other things that no one really wants to think about seven-year-old girls playing out in their spare time…and yet. Majesty (the Queen of the Ponies according to the official playline) ruled from the Dream Castle with an iron hoof, cruel and unforgiving, while Moondancer and her rebel army struggled to put the true heir, Powder, on the throne. Sometimes Ponies died, and would go into the box in the closet for a few months before they were repurposed with a new identity and a new role in the ongoing game.”

Reading books set in foreign lands is an excellent way to travel without having to pack. But writing such books successfully can be a big challenge. Elisa found this blogpost about incorporating a foreign setting and all of the aspects a writer should consider before doing so.

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