While at some parts I slacked off and provided less-than-awesome content, with over one hundred potential candidates, I'm getting closer and closer to getting the best stuff every time.
Monday:
- The Character Therapist: Do Writing Contests Help or Hurt Creativity?: It can help productivity, but...
- Writability: How (Not) to Write Great Characters: Kill 'Em All on the very last page is really hard to execute.
- Roni Loren: Testing Your Opening Scene - 5 Steps #atozchallenge: Okay, I need to further work on my protagonist's motivations, intentions, and expectations (although the latter isn't on the list).
- Seeking the Write Life: YA Fiction and the Inessential Penis: Despite the strange title, this discusses a well-handled example.
Tuesday:
- The Writers Alley: What's Your WPH: A way of thinking about it.
- Colorimetry: Not so perfect, are we?: A brief round-up of links detailing an earlier case of plagiarism.
- Wrestling the Muse: alk to me…It’s not in your words, It’s all in the way you move…: A springboard article on non-verbal language.
- Alexandra Sokoloff: Sassy Gay Friend! Character stereotypes and archetypes: Some insight into how the Gay Best Friend and Magical Negro "archetypes" manifested.
Wednesday:
- Hippies, Beauty and Books Oh My: Drama Llamas, Plagiarism and Bullying Oh My!: An indirect response to recent events through a true story.
- Courage 2 Create: Please: Give Us Something That Matters: In a form that hammers the point into your head and through your skull.
- The Write Practice: The Power of Secrets: The comments are turning into a text version of this.
Thursday:
- Building Character: 13 Warning Signs You’re A Writer: First of all, I'm pacing. Second of all...
- Victoria's Pages of Romance: Ideas for Developing Intimacy in a Romance Novel Relationship part 1: Eye-to-eye...I consider this an interesting concept.
- YA Indie: So, you just got your first 1-star review.: Haters gonna hate, so you might as well get away from that keyboard and go all Cathy onto that tub of chocolate ice cream.