Happy Tuesday! You survived Monday 🙂 Reward yourself with some informal writerly learnings.
Sara Farmer enters the not-so-elementary university of Sherlock Holmes, part 1. Then, LA Bourgeois wants you to acknowledge your limitations and set your stage for success. Gabriela Pereira interviews GG Kellner about using history to speculate the future and change the present. Then, F.E. Choe helps you create your own writing space at home. Gracie Bialecki bemoans the double-edged sword of deadlines. Finally, Ashley Christiano lists five ways astrology can help you write your novel. DIY MFA
Jill Bearup says choreography doesn’t matter.
Jan O’Hara: and the Oscar for best reality show script goes to Will Smith (or, writerly takeaways from the infamous slap). Dave King is in search of faith and goodness. Then, Barbara Linn Probst considers time: backstory, flashback, and chronology. Natalie Hart wonders what if you gave up? Writer Unboxed
K.M. Weiland outlines the six challenges of writing a second novel. Helping Writers Become Authors
Shaelin shares 11 writing exercises to help break writer’s block. Reedsy
Becca Puglisi shares creative ways to brainstorm story ideas. Then, Lynette M. Burrows presents one plotting tool for all. Ellen Buikema continues her literary tour of the senses with the power of vision in writing. Writers in the Storm
Alice Gaines offers three tools for deep point of view. Elizabeth Spann Craig
Margaret McNellis helps you tell your story with three tarot cards. Then, Catherine Baab-Maguira explains why Frankenstein still sells 40,000 copies a year. Jane Friedman
Erica Brozovsky talks about pronouns: the little words that say a lot. Otherwords | PBS Storied
Lisa Hall-Wilson offers one reason readers cheer for unlikeable characters. Then, Angela Ackerman explains how writers can turn the page this spring. Writers Helping Writers
Tiffany Yates Martin: “Leave me alone—I know what I’m doing.” Fox Print Editorial
Kristen Lamb: small steps and the value of just showing up.
Why we’re still so obsessed with the Heather. The Take
Chris Winkle recommends seven external plots for relationship-centered stories. Then, Oren Ashkenazi wonders how useful Michael Moorcock’s ten rules of writing are. Mythcreants
Angie Hodapp helps you balance the explainable with the inexplicable in speculative fiction. Then, Kristin Nelson says all the writing talent in the world won’t save the wrong story. Pub Rants
Why is Turning Red getting so many weird reviews? Xiran Jay Zhao
Alana Pickerel: new poster exhibit by the Sudbury Writers’ Guild highlights Sudbury’s rainbow hospital. CTV Northern Ontario
Alan Neal interviews John Degen of the Writers’ Union of Canada about proposed Copyright Act changes. CBC’s “All in a Day”
Thanks for taking the time to stop by, and I hope you took away something to support your current work in progress.
Until Thursday, be well and stay safe!
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