This week, Jami Gold explains the role of a line editor while K.M. Weiland cautions us about using coincidence in our fiction. Gill Andrews offers advice to improve your author website (I made some minor changes to this site as soon as I read his article!).
After nine novels, soon ten, Jeff VanderMeer shares eight insights into the writing process. Over at Mythcreants, Oren Ashkenazi analyzes Kurt Vonnegut’s Eight Rules of Writing and presents common pitfalls of deep story ideas.
All that and a little more… Enjoy!
How Useful are Kurt Vonnegut’s Eight Rules of Writing? and Five Common Pitfalls for Stories with Deep Ideas by Oren Ashkenazi
Inhabiting Our Scenes: Information Versus Experience by Peter Selgin
8 Writing Tips from Jeff VanderMeer via Chicago Review of Books
Want More Readers for Your Blog and Books? Fix These 5 Website Mistakes by Gill Andrews via Anne R. Allen
Zoom In, Zoom Out: An Exercise in Creating a Memorable Setting by Steven Cooper
How Long Should a Book Be? Word Count Guidelines by Anne R. Allen
Coincidences in Fiction: What You’re Doing Wrong by K.M. Weiland
What is Line Editing and What Should Line Editors Do? by Jami Gold
Complete Fiction: Why the ‘Short Story Renaissance’ is a Myth by Chris Power
This will be the last edition of About this Writing Stuff for the next six to eight weeks (at least). Over the next few months, I shall be busy prepping not one, but two new books for release while projects at my full time job threaten to consume much of my personal time. On top of all this, I have the first draft of a science fiction novel in progress that I am determined to finish this year. I’m treading water and the tide is rising. Hey, two clichés in one sentence. Go me!
