K.M. Weiland takes a break from character arcs and returns to her most common mistakes series with this post and podcast about describing character movements.
TED talk on how Sting got his groove back. It’s all about storytelling.
A Rewording Life. A worthy, and wordy, project from Sheryl Gordon, in honour of her mother, and all those who have lost their words to Alzheimer’s Disease.
So a note to begin with about how I organize these things. I generally start off chronologically, but if thematic groups emerge, I tend to put them together. This is why you’ll generally see some familiar names on my list, like K.M. Weiland. Katie always posts on Sundays, so she generally appears first, followed by Anne. R. Allen and Roz Morris, who also post on Sunday.
Everything else is just organized the way my brain sees fit, which may not always make sense to anyone but me … but there you have it: my mad method.
So it should be no surprise that I’m starting off with K.M. Weiland and the final post in her Creating Stunning Character Arcs series: The Resolution.
Later in the week, she announced her forthcoming book, The Writer’s Digest Annotated Jane Eyre. Guess who’s got an ARC to review? Got it in one, my friends 🙂
Roz Morris posted about drafting her scenes out of order and revealed the title of the work in progress (WIP) hitherto known as The Mountains Novel.
Roz Morris responded to a writer in a bind. The result was this post.
If you’ve read Lifeform Three, you’ll find this Roz Morris post on the inspiration of the Surrey landscape interesting. If you haven’t read the novel, you’d better get cracking!
Speaking of podcasts, listen to K.M. Weiland’s fourteenth instalment in the Creating Stunning Character Arcs series. Or read the post. As you wish, dear reader.
Yes, you read that date correctly. It’s a double shot of Tipsday this week (since I missed out on last week).
A writer friend actually called me the queen of curation this past week 🙂 I think that title belongs to Elizabeth Spann Craig, but I was duly flattered, nonetheless.
Part 12 and Part 13 of K.M. Weiland’s Creating Stunning Character Arcs series.
Lisa Cron’s TEDx lecture, Wired for Story:
I would have posted Lisa Cron’s Writer Unboxed: What kindergarten got (and still gets) really, really wrong, but WU is having some technical difficulties right now. I’ll try to keep it in mind for next week. It’s an excellent post. Heart Lisa Cron.
A little more brain science for you here. Frank Bruni encourages kids to read, kids, read.
Brent Weeks: New writing advice. This is really about process, and you know how much I lurve that stuff! Plus, he has a standing desk with a treadmill.
Mel’s note: I’ve finally placed my order for a standing desk (goodbye tax refund). I won’t have a treadmill, but it could be a future consideration. Good to know I’m in such distinguished company. Jane Friedman uses a standing desk and treadmill, too.
Elizabeth Gilbert on Success, failure, and the drive to keep creating.
K.M. Weiland’s back with part 11 of her creating stunning character arcs series: The second half of the second act. As with all instalments of her series, you can read the post, or listen to the podcast.
Felicia Day’s Vaginal Fantasy Hangout on Juliet Marillier’s Daughter of the Forest. Not only was this irresistible because DotF is one of my favourite books, but the discussion about rape scenes in fiction was also fierce. Very worthwhile.
Then Felicia got a tweet. This video was her response:
She just posted today that she watched her own video for inspiration 😉
Carly Watters offers her top 8 writing craft books. I’m proud to say I own and have read several of them 🙂
The Outlander fan gathering. If you’ve been drooling over the coming Starz series as much as I have, you’ll want to see this 🙂 BTW, for my Canadian friends, Showcase will be broadcasting (eeeee!). this summer. Can hardly wait.
R.A. Salvatore interview with Bryan Stearns from Oct 16, 2010. The interview is actually in three parts, but parts 2 and 3 will populate the YouTube sidebar when you watch this first one.
Roz Morris received an anguished Tweet. Here is her response.
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