About This Writing Stuff...

This week, KB Shaw wants to know why you're not writing or reading sci-fi.  Joe Konrath advises writers to tend to their careers like gardens.  Jami Gold raises the stakes and discusses when we should skip a scene.   Jody Hedlund and Keith Cronin delve into the topic of research.  Michael Levin predicts the downfall of Barnes and Noble, and speaking of downfalls, Chris Jones cites an example of how a thin skin and poor etiquette can ruin a writing career.

From Writer Unboxed, we receive words of wisdom on staying published, bolstering that fragile writer's ego, and that plot moment when your character "crosses over".

All that and a bit more.  Enjoy!


Are You Afraid of Sci-Fi? by KB Shaw via Sandra Carey Cody

Tend Your Garden by JA Konrath

How to Raise the Stakes in Our Story and When Should We Skip a Scene in Our Story? by Jami Gold

3 Cautions for Adding Research into Stories and The Why's, When's, and What-Not's for Opening a Story by Jody Hedlund

Concocting Fiction from Fact: Using Research to Tell Better Stories by Keith Cronin

Moving from Idea to Novel by Clare Langley-Hawthorne

Will One Bad Book Ruin Your Career? by James Scott Bell

Do You Suffer from Fragile Writer Ego?  by Judy Mollen Walters

Today's Challenge: Staying Published by Sophie Masson

Plotting, Pacing, and Crossing Over by Anne Greenwood Brown

Barnes and Noble: Gone by New Year's by Michael Levin

Why Producers Will Not Read Your Script by Chris Jones