Ok, but will they work on Super Bowl Sunday?
5 Distraction-Free Writing Tips and Tools – Writer’s Circle
http://writerscircle.com/2014/09/5-distractionfree-writing-tips-and-tools.html
Month: January 2015
Reading Irish
My experience with Irish writers has often been a sense of eavesdropping on someone’s personal conversation. I can’t explain why I feel this way. I just feel a certain raw nerve in what I’ve read.
In any case, I found eavesdropping on this conversation with Anne Enright enlightening. The world view is different from what most of my US-centric writing friends exhibit.
Anne Enright: How the world reads Irish writers
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/anne-enright-how-the-world-reads-irish-writers-1.2085668
Place prose properly
Do you want to be published in a literary journal? Cheryl Somers offers a dozen tips to help you. She even tells you when — and why — to give it up.
Work-in-Progress: Cheryl Somers Aubin: 12 Tips for Submitting Your Work to Lit Journals
http://www.workinprogressinprogress.com/2015/01/cheryl-somers-aubin-12-tips-for.html?m=1
Career plotting
Have you ever examined your writing goals with an eye to the same categories you use to examine a novel? This post helps you do that.
How Are You Going To Succeed As a Writer? | Storyfix.com
http://storyfix.com/going-succeed-writer
Brand labeling
If your book cover is your label, then this advice is for you. Whether you design your own or your publisher designs it for you, think about these tips when you look at your options.
FUNDAMENTALS OF STRONG LABEL DESIGN – DON’T SCREW IT UP! | Dewey Weddington | LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fundamentals-strong-label-design-dont-screw-up-dewey-weddington
DIY tips
Here are a couple of short suggestions for folks who want to publish their own work.
SO, you want to self-publish a book . . .
http://hellogiggles.com/self-publishing/#read
Write until you’re a writer
This Harvard Business Review article is not about writing. It’s meant to help people learn new skills in the workplace. But as I read it, I realized one way it applies to writers is in its advice to mimic the successful behavior of others.
If you want to be a good manager, copy the behavior of the best managers you’ve worked for. If you want to be a good writer, copy the behavior of the best writers you’ve read. And what do they do? They write.
You’re Never Too Experienced to Fake It Till You Learn It – HBR
https://hbr.org/2015/01/youre-never-too-experienced-to-fake-it-till-you-learn-it
Write more
January is slipping by. If you still haven’t figured out how to make that resolution to write more work, here are five more ideas to try.
5 Things You Need to Do to Become a Productive Writer | Kindle Me This
http://www.kindlemethis.com/writing-non-fiction/5-things-you-need-to-do-to-become-a-productive-writer/
Learn scifi
There are lots of places to study the craft of literary fiction, but fewer for science fiction and fantasy. I just heard about this online workshop — The Brainery — and thought it was worth passing on.
The Strangely Competitive World of Sci-Fi Writing Workshops | WIRED
http://www.wired.com/2015/01/geeks-guide-sci-fi-workshop/
Find your thinking cap
Here are five ideas to help you get your writing done. With a little imagination, you could get almost any task done with some of these tips.
5 Weird Writing Productivity Hacks That Work – SEO Copywriting
http://www.seocopywriting.com/content-marketing/tips-and-strategy/5-weird-writing-productivity-hacks-work/
