Linky Friday
The next two weeks will be a little unusual – meaning there won't be the "normal" features – because I have a couple of author interviews coming and then the first week of September I'm off Day Job and hope to spend some time with my nephew, so I'll be scheduling a series of musing. I'll get back to links and reviews afterward. So here's the last links collection for the summer or something! 
The Impulse to Create from the dailypost WordPress blog. Excellent musings on what pushes us to write.
I've joined Ladies who Critique (and it's not only for ladies, BTW, last count I read 3 male names, Matthew, Joseph and Erick, but I'm sure there are more, especially in the YA or sci-fi/fantasy or mystery groups) and I'm already making new friends (and might have found a couple of brand new crit partners). Anyhow, I also discovered (or rediscovered, as one of them is also a Six Sentence Sunday participang) a few new and interesting blogs so here are more links – in no particular order, old and new blogs (I'm probably following the alphabetical order on my blogroll, LOL).
Elizabeth Poole on how to make cliches work for you.
Erika Marks on tension in scenes.
Melissa Wright on dealing with bad critics – we've all been there. I think those bad critics are actually the jealous authors mentioned by Ruth Ann Nordin.
Mike Finn on the Tao of not doing Twitter or Facebook. I'm not twitting and I facebook my own way. But then, I'm a rebel, I don't like to follow rules!
Dave "Noobcake" Farmer on tags and how to use them properly, especially on WordPress. How many tags do YOU use?
Prue Batten on being indie and Shaina Richmond on tips, tricks and rants on the same subject – two different approaches to the same matter. I stand somewhere in the middle, I think!
Kenra Daniels on how to diversify the races in your fiction. I write fantasy set in a world similar to Earth but not Earth, but I was stuck with caucasian protagonists for years… I think I will covered this in another post, though.
Also Kenra does reviews of romance books, so if you are a writer of adult fiction in any romance subgenre, check her guidelines.
The Coverage Ink newsletter shows how even screenwriters can DIY nowadays (except me because I'm a megalomaniac who wants to make expensive movies, mwahahahah!). It's a wonderful brand new world for creators these days! 
I Love Smashwords on the tsunami of crap, or actually a musing on readers. What reader are you? I want to be entertained, I'm certainly not of the literary type – neither as reader nor as writer…
Joe Konrath on sex in writing, which goes well with Kenra Daniel's post on the same topic…
Passive Guy on IP and contracts and all that law stuff. Gives me a headache only reading about it.
Ruth Ann Nordin on Amazon reviews – compared to Smashwords. But, like she says, Mark Coker is Mark Coker and Amazon is… well, Amazon. BTW, here's the update of the Amazon/Smashwords deal…
Finally, Indian writers beware… I wonder what will happen when Kindle starts selling to India!
Have a great weekend!
