Thirsty Thursday Blog RoundUp

It’s that time of the week where we take a look at the best advice and articles the interwebz has to offer.

On Writing

• TTYU Retro: Develop Your Antagonist — TalkToYoUniverse (Juliette Wade)
  
• The Eyes Don’t Always Have It — The Editor’s Blog (Beth Hill)
• Your ellipsis is showing — The Bearded Iris (Leslie Marinelli)
• Use Setting and Background to Meet Reader Expectations — Writer’s Fun Zone (Kay Keppler)
• Your Plot Moves Too Slowly ~ 5 Tips To Help Improve Your Story’s Pacing — Writers In The Storm Blog (Guest Kara Lennox)
• 3 Writer’s Commandments and Avoiding The Dreaded “S” Word — Jenny Hansen
• 25 of My Personal Rules for Writing and Telling Stories — TerribleMinds (Chuck Wendig)
• Little Darlings & Why They Must Die…for REAL — Kristen Lamb
• How to Write Consistently — Writability (Ava Jae)
• Words for Your Writing Toolbox: Get Rid of “Get” — Writers In The Storm Blog (Guest Sharla Rae)
• Five Key Ways to Make Your Characters Memorable — The Kill Zone (Jordan Dane)
• The Biggest Mistake Writers Make and How to Avoid it — Writer Unboxed (Lisa Cron)
• Homophones, Homonyms, and Homographs — Writing Forward (Melissa Donovan)

On Publishing & Agents

• 3 Online Tools that Make Publishing Your Book Easier — Wise, Ink
  
• Traditionally Published Titles and Rights — Mystery Writing is Murder (Elizabeth Spann Craig)
• Big-6 publisher jumps on the indie bandwagon — The Book Deal (Alan Rinzler)

On Social Media

• Social Media Fitness for Authors: Happy Findings — August McLaughlin
  
• 5 Steps to Hosting Successful Twitter Chats: Your Ultimate Guide — Social Media Examiner (Ann Smarty)
• 3 Social Media Marketing Tips I’m Resisting — Books & Such (Janet Kobobel Grant)

On Blogging

• 7 Ways Guest-Blogging Can Launch Your Blogging Career — Live Hacked (Nick Thacker)
  
• How to Craft a Guest Post That’s Likely to be Accepted and How to Pitch Your Guest Post – Successfully — Aliventures (Ali Luke)
• A Comprehensive Guide to Formatting Your WordPress Posts and Pages — CopyBlogger (Pamela Wilson)
• When Do Writers Need Multiple Blogs? — Kristen Lamb
• Why Write Blog Posts Consistently? — Writability (Ava Jae)
• How Much Are We Responsible for our Guest Posters? — Beach Reads with Bite (Jami Gold)

On Reading

• Delayed Reaction or Delayed Satisfaction?: When Sequels Emerge Years Later — The Hub (Kelly Jensen)
  
• What Kind of Book Reader Are You? A Diagnostics Guide and Many More Types of Book Readers: A Diagnostics Addendum — The Atlantic (Jen Doll)

Other Useful Stuff Too

• Carving Out Alone Time: 10 Tips for Creative Artists — August McLaughlin
• Is the Cliffhanger Ending Overrated? — Wordplay (K.M. Weiland)
• Mobile Apps for Writers — DIY MFA (Guest Whitney Adams)
• Secrets of a Great Pitch — Books & Such (Rachelle Gardner)
• GOING TOE-TO-TOE WITH REJECTION (AND HOW TO KEEP WRITING) — Krissy Media Ink (Krissy Brady)
• Five Reasons Why You Need An Editor — Pen to Paper Communications (Leanne Sype)
• Query writing – a guide for the anxious — Sarah’s Blog at Greenhouse Literary (Sarah Davies)
• When Is A Story ‘Done’? — Write Anything (Zena Shapter)
• How to Write an Author Bio When You Don’t Feel Like an Author…Yet — Anne R. Allen’s Blog
• Charting Your Story’s Rising Action — Publishing Crawl (Julie Eshbaugh)
• Ugh, What Do I Write About? The Struggle for Ideas — The Other Side of the Story (Janice Hardy)
• Mythbusting—Three Lies That Could Sabotage Your Writing Success — Kristen Lamb
• Confessions of a Pantser, or What I Failed To Learn in Grad School — Storyfix (Guest Eric Neyer)
• Intellectual Property Considerations for Writers — The Creative Penn (Joanna Penn)
• 10 Excuses for Not Writing – and How to Smash Them — Wordplay (K.M. Weiland)