Good writers are readers. Here a list of American fiction worth working through.
The 100 Greatest American Novels, 1894 – 1994 | BOOK RIOT
http://bookriot.com/2014/07/04/100-greatest-american-novels-1894-1994/
Category: editor
Who wins?
Here’s another view of the Amazon-Hachette battle.
If you love books then you should be rooting for Amazon, not Hachette or the Big Five — Tech News and Analysis
Honestly?
After reading the review of J.K. Rowling’s latest, I found this first-hand report about publishing. This is a little more upbeat.
“I sold my book for $25,000″: A debut novelist’s experiment with radical honesty – Salon.com
Happy traits
All five things in this list would make good character traits. I can see the office worker who jumps up from her desk every hour to do five jumping jacks. I can hear the conversations among her co-workers.
One person’s happy trait is another person’s pet peeve.
5 Things You Can Do in the Next 5 Minutes to Be Happier in the Next 5 Days | Going on the Ride of Your Life
Keep it together
If you work on multiple projects at once, organization is important. I use several Office products at the moment, and my patchwork system seems to be working. But I’ve been thinking about trying Scrivener. Haven’t made up my mind yet, but this post makes me think it might be worth trying.
Do you use it? Or something like it? What do you think?
How Scrivener Helped Me Organize All My Writing
sharon p. lynn 