#WriterWednesday 02-09-20; Writerly #Quotes And Links

“The novel is an event in consciousness. Our aim isn't to copy actuality, but to modify and recreate our sense of it. The novelist is inviting the reader to watch a performance in his own brain.”

~George Buchanan

 

OK.  Well... I haven't been writing - read the post that's going up this coming Friday and you should understand why - but I do have a load more links to share with you.  So, let's see what I have for you this week, shall we?

 

“You don’t need a certificate for it, you don’t need to apply to do it, you don’t even need to ask permission to do it. You just have to claim it—and claim it every day by showing up to do it.”

~Grant Faulkner

 

The writing process, and writing life in general:

Don't lose your novel! 5 ways to backup your writing

12 reasons writing doesn't feel worth it right now (even though it is)

12 things to know about writing through your feelings 

The energy you spend on writing only goes so far 

10 things to remember if you didn't meet all your writing goals this month

Are your writing goals too ambitious?

10 subtle things preventing you from reaching your monthly writing goals

'Lazy' writers exist - that doesn't mean you're one of them 

10 secrets to writing more (and getting really good at it)

4 reasons to carve out designated writing time 

How to get motivated to write

Unforced errors: 5 ways writers stand between themselves and success

12 things writers can actually control

The 'dos' and 'donts' of writing what you know

The imaginary things holding you back 

The hardest lessons a writer will ever learn

10 reminders for when your words don't feel like enough

“You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.”

~William Goldman

Writers' block and idea generation (for both authors and bloggers):

How visualisation got me out of writers' block

5 must-try methods for beating writers' block    

8 ways to help overcome bloggers' block

How to come up with writing topics

Things to write about when your ideas run dry

“Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.”
~Zadie Smith

Random writing tips:

Special items: paranormal 

Special items: fantasy

Dialogue tags and you

The nutshell catch and the point of no return

10 rules of time travel

7 tips to handling grief and mourning in fiction

 

“As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.”

~Ernest Hemingway

Editing:

Good grammar and bad manners: how to handle writing mistakes in public

12 tips to write tight

 Why a bad first draft is not a failure

 

“Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.”

~Lillian Hellman

 

 Publishing:

To pre-order or not - that is the question. A look at the benifits of pre-order 

 

“I would write a book, or a short story, at least three times—once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.”

~Bernard Malamud

 

Marketing:

Children's books and back matter

 A different approach to social media

 Building a local readership

 

“Writing is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.”

~Clarice Lispector