Blog Updates

mema

well, I've decided to turn my professional experience into something useful for writers (too some courage!)

http://scribocin.blogspot.com/2011/02/developing-believable-characters.html

boredrobots

Distractions...

http://stevenchapmanwriter.blogspot.com/2011/02/curse-of-distracooh-talking-sausage.html

SilentTony

New post about a new story up at Spook City-


http://anthonycowin.blogspot.com/2011/02/unanswered-echoes.html

collide-o-scope

The Bus to Stardom

Rehash of a yarn I already told in here some time ago.

http://upthedownescalator.wordpress.com/

boredrobots

Updates and uber blogfest -

http://stevenchapmanwriter.blogspot.com/2011/02/thank-crunchy-monkey-its-friday.html

Enjoy!

OverActress

Have cookie confessions for last night >.<
http://queenofthedessert.blogspot.com/2011/02/priscilla-versus-cookie-monster.html

mema

the first post from my new series on crating believeble characters- you characters and emotional baggage
http://scribocin.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-to-build-believeble-characters-with.html

Chippy

I came up with nothing this week for my writing challenge - but see how that wasn't actually a bad thing.

http://chippy-thelifeofwriting.blogspot.com/2011/02/picture-is-worth-1000-words-week-7.html

Carol

An illustration of contemplation...

http://carol-bevitt.blogspot.com/2011/02/contemplation.html

SilentTony

Flash fiction post-

http://anthonycowin.blogspot.com/2011/02/dangerous-body-of-water.html

flyingtart

Talk by Margaret Atwood on technological changes in publishing and how it is affecting authors.

http://flyingtart.blogspot.com/2011/02/margaret-atwood-on-changes-in.html

febes

You may be familiar with the topic ;-)

http://theworldsilivein.blogspot.com/2011/02/much-has-happened-since-i-last-came-on.html

collide-o-scope

My First Rejection

My very first written submission was rejected and I was heartbroken. Mind, I hadn't even started school.

This tale has been told on here before.

http://upthedownescalator.wordpress.com/

Red

How to write transitions

http://allwritefictionadvice.blogspot.com/


And continuing Lily's February Femmes Fatales stories, a recent one called Nocturne.

http://ajhumpage.blogspot.com

SilentTony

Great post Red. Really enjoying the blog.

collide-o-scope

I found a copy of The Writer from October 1954 in me dad's stuff. pic and details here.

http://upthedownescalator.wordpress.com/

Baggy Books

I have some Writers' Forums from the 1990s. No where near as old, but it's incredible to see how it changed from that format to John Jenkins's and then to the current one.

lexia

Not VERY writing related so maybe should not be on here ;)

Anyway, politicians have to fill more forms in ...


http://wwwrite-place.blogspot.com/

SilentTony

Interesting blog post Lexia and I think it deserves a place here yes. Writing is about ideas and communication isn't it? So all posts welcome as far as I'm concerned.

Carol

Ditto. :)

Piper

A dark tale finds its place on The Realm:

http://theworksofpixiejking.blogspot.com/2011/02/sleeping-shadows.html

(Ps, I haven't changed my URL yet.)

SilentTony

Ah Pixie J's Kingdom.

Lou Treleaven

I interviewed Scott Pack of Harper Collins and you can read the result on my blog at

http://loutreleaven.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/the-big-huge-probing-interview-with-scott-pack/

Put the kettle on and take your time, because I had exactly three minutes to talk to him and got in a grand total of one question!

SilentTony

Phew think I'll finish the rest of that interview over the coming week. Needs reading in big chunks I think.

Chippy

I'm joining blogfests left, right and centre now.

http://therandomthoughtsofchippy.blogspot.com/2011/02/nifty-fifty-blogfest.html

http://chippy-thelifeofwriting.blogspot.com/2011/02/im-going-to-be-busy-that-day.html

Carol

Just been to look at TB's renate-villerius.blogspot.com but it has been removed.
Is Renate making changes, or is there some other problem?

Lou Treleaven

[quote=SilentTony]Phew think I'll finish the rest of that interview over the coming week. Needs reading in big chunks I think. [/quote]

I'll try to break it up into smaller paragraphs of a thousand words or so.

Carol

http://carol-bevitt.blogspot.com/2011/02/vote-for-oddest-book-title-of-year.html

about the oddest titles vote on the Bookseller website.

sallyj

A post about a live storytelling event that I attended.
http://sallyjenkins.wordpress.com

Would telling our stories in front of the mirror make us choose better, more precise language and drop empty words like 'nice' and 'quite'?

lexia

Maybe sally, but in my case more likely to stop me writing altogether.
It's that accent - dunno where it comes from !

Nice idea anyway and quite possibly true.
Now, how do you define "better" ?
;)

Lou Treleaven

Sounds interesting, sally - have commented!

collide-o-scope

The Master of Tillepathy

And I am :D

http://upthedownescalator.wordpress.com/

boredrobots

Fifty followers, woo!

http://stevenchapmanwriter.blogspot.com/2011/02/holy-strawberries-batman-were-in-jam.html

flyingtart

Would Dickens have tweeted?

http://flyingtart.blogspot.com/2011/02/would-dickens-have-tweeted.html

Rosalie

New blog! First post is about the scary side of being a children's author and trying to work out why it's so scary.

Blog is a bit rudimentary at the moment - hope to titivate it soon.

http://rosalie-warren.blogspot.com/2011/02/being-childrens-writer-scary-stuff.html

ceka

I tried to leave a message there, Rosalie but it just kept flicking me out. I reckon you can cope with the scary side, sunshine - let's face it, most of us would be very glad to have got to the (published novel) stage of NEEDING to be coping with it!
Good luck and enjoy

ceka

Oh yes and it's confession time for me over at: http://blogthoughtsfromabroad.blogspot.com

Baggy Books

I couldn't post a comment - had to leave it on the previous posting.

Carol

The trouble my characters give me...

http://carol-bevitt.blogspot.com/2011/02/characters-and-problems-they-bring.html

Phots Moll

Another comp - and a pitiful attempt to get sympathy. http://patsy-collins.blogspot.com/

Chippy

Good news! For me anyway...

http://chippy-thelifeofwriting.blogspot.com/2011/02/picture-is-worth-1000-words-week-8.html

Phots Moll

Free computers and a 'scene of a sexual nature'!http://patsy-collins.blogspot.com/2011/02/heres-something-guaranteed-to-help-with.html

Rosalie

Can anybody tell me how to add 'Google friend connect' to my blog?

Thanks

flyingtart

This might help: http://www.google.com/support/friendconnect/bin/answer.py?answer=112083

Chippy

When I started my blog I think it was automatically on the template - I think it is on the gadget menu

Rosalie

Small rant about being told to show not tell

http://rosalie-warren.blogspot.com/2011/02/show-andor-tell.html

Rosalie

Ah, you folk are wonderful. Thanks!

(Am now following lots of you on here - will add more next time I visit)

Chippy

My post for yet another blogfest that I entered - I think I'm addicted to them! :)

http://therandomthoughtsofchippy.blogspot.com/2011/02/nifty-fifty-blogfest-my-top-ten.html

flyingtart

When to give up on a project.

http://flyingtart.blogspot.com/2011/02/when-to-call-it-quits.html

boredrobots

Busy bee, but not with writing :(

http://stevenchapmanwriter.blogspot.com/2011/02/busy-busy-busy-but-not-in-good-way.html