About This Writing Stuff...

It's a short list this week as I'm mired in home renovation and landscaping projects. Nevertheless, both Jami Gold and Jody Hedlund talk about the hook. Does Lydia Sharp want writers to become couch potatoes? Of course not, but we can certainly learn from TV shows and movies.  Courtney Carpenter provides some tools for story pacing while Orson Scott Card wants us to understand our minor characters.  Shelli Johnson advises us to slow down, Donald Maas plants more seeds, and Shari Stauch approaches blogging from a different POV.


Cliffhangers: Not Just for the End of the Book by Jami Gold

4 Ways to Hook Your Readers and Keep Them Wanting More by Jody Hedlund

5 Ways Novelists Can Benefit from Watching Movies and TV Shows by Lydia Sharp

7 Tools for Pacing a Novel and Keeping Your Story Moving at the Right Pace by Courtney Carpenter

Understanding the Minor Character's Role by Orson Scott Card

Slow Down and SEE It by Shelli Johnson

The Good Seed Part II by Donald Maass

Seven Out-of-the-Box Author Blogging Ideas by Shari Stauch

And we're growing ever closer to BaltiCon , Maryland's Regional SF and Fantasy Convention!