Well, my day is already blown

I overslept by two hours this morning, and those early morning hours are pretty much solid writing time. That makes me mutter curses and plan to abandon my kid to the Wii later today, but we'll see.

So instead of posting something original, I'm going to cut and paste an email I sent to a friend. He asked (generally) for links to websites that would help an aspiring novelist FOAF. This is what I sent:

I'm only going to give four suggestions:

First, he should buy a copy of CHILD OF FIRE and...