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)


Catching up on my regular blogs. Excellent list! Thanks for doing this every week.
Thanks so much for linking to my blog! I’ll definitely have to check out these other links…
*boggles* Wow, I think I know what I’m going to be doing today. LOL! *click, click, click*
Thanks for the link to my blog!
So many great links! Thanks for doing the hard work for us
No problem=) Thanks for stopping by!
Thanks for mentioning my Writer’s Fun Zone article. It’s actually by author Kay Keppler.
Thanks!
Whoops! Will fix it! Thanks for letting me know!