Sunday, June 12, 2011

Inky Linky Love 06.11.2011

Two weeks ago I said I wouldn't overwhelm you with two weeks' worth of links at once... well. Looks like it's inevitable this time, though I did try to cut down the number of links to a reasonable amount.

CRAFT
  • Mary Kole's post on how to convey character through interiority rather than resorting to physical cliches is amazing and helped me to understand why I had a hard time connecting to characters in certain works.
  • Ken Scholes at Genereality gives some tips to pre-plan and draft a first novel — much-needed advice for me!

PLOTTING
  • Janice Hardy's posts on plotting are so helpful — she's really great at breaking down the key elements of plot, and my inner structure/outline nerd totally loves it.

CHARACTER
  • Kristen Lamb concludes her series on antagonists with a post on the importance of scene antagonists and how they push the protagonist to change.

WORLDBUILDING
  • Alexandra Sokoloff writes about the powerful technique of using visual imagery systems to convey theme, using films as examples so you can "see" her points in action.
  • Juliette Wade does it again with another thought-provoking post on using idioms and metaphors to flesh out a culture. I adore all her worldbuilding posts!

WRITING LIFE
  • Given how late I've been with posts lately, Biljana Likic's post at Let the Words Flow on how to deal with missing deadlines is extremely timely.
  • In addition to great posts on anthropology and linguistics, Juliette Wade also provides some helpful tips on how to find time to write — I must say I'm definitely guilty of letting myself be distracted.

CHUCK WENDIG

Hope you enjoy the links! If you haven't yet, please take a look at my novel-writing game plan and let me know if you have any tips for me. Thanks!

8 comments:

  1. BAhahahaha, you gave Wendig a category to himself... too funny. Yeah, and his profanity kind of put me off too.

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  2. Haha believe me, I went through a lot of internal struggle on that one...
    but in the end, the great content won out. :P

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  3. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! for giving us all these links!  I can't wait to read them all! How wonderful of you to find them and share them with us! 

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  4. Haha I didn't expect anyone to get so excited. :P

    Thanks, Brenda! :D

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  5. Thanks for stopping by! I featured one of your posts in last week's link
    roundup. Love your blog. :)

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  6. you should write a post on what you're looking for when you click around on blogs and how you found all these links! how much time do you spend looking through these?? haha

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  7. lol well i just read everything in google reader and star the ones i like...
    so i don't really click around on blogs and stuff. no idea how much time it
    takes. i basically go to google reader whenever i want something to read lol

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