It’s been another great week of Writerly Goodness.
Jane Friedman offers her thoughts on privilege and luxury with respect to her productivity. This is particularly interesting in light of my The next chapter update of last week.
Here’s one of the articles Jane links in her post (above): The writing class by Jaswinder Bolina for the Poetry Foundation. I actually shared one of the others last week . . .
Jane later tries to answer the question; do men receive bigger book advances than women?
Why I choose to write publicly about my anxiety. Kameron Hurley.
K.M. Weiland returns to her most common writing mistakes series with this entry: Anticlimactic endings.
David Corbett explores shame, guilt, and hope, referencing other excellent posts by Tom Bentley and Donald Maass, in this post for Writer Unboxed: The redemptive arc.
Lisa Cron continues her exploration of backstory on Writer Unboxed: What we’ve been taught about backstory and why it’s wrong.
Tor.com offers their list of the SFF characters they couldn’t stop talking about in 2015.
Sherman Alexie: How storytelling can create social change. The Take Away.
Elizabeth Gilbert discusses not getting an MFA on The MFA Project.
Open Culture shares 48 hours of Joseph Campbell lectures for free.
Mental Floss offers Edison’s footage of Mark Twain in his home.
Charles Dickens once created an entire library of fake books. He titled them all himself. Someone was wearing his clever trousers. Open Culture.
Karin Scheper wonders whether to conserve or not to conserve on the Medieval Books blog.
Ah, another lovely entry in the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Kudoclasm:
And with that bit of poetry, I leave you.
Until Thursday, mes cheres!
Well, this little lot should just about tide everybody over until Thursday Melanie. A very good mixture by the looks of it. Thanks for your hard work.
xxx Massive Hugs xxx
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Thank you, my awesome friend! Merry, massive hugs 🙂
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