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Good Links: December Edition
Posted on December 30th, 2009 13 commentsWas Santa Claus good to you this year? He was very good to me. I must have been a very good girl. Okay, this is sounding a bit off to me.
<clears throat>
Moving on… I haven’t spent as much time on the Internet this month as I have in the past, but I still managed to find some great writing sites and links to pass on for December.
Writing:
Details make the character. Good details make a character memorable and bad details that don’t fit… well, yikes! Read the full article over on Behler Blog.
From Roz Morris’ Nail Your Novel blog the post on making the reader care about the message from December 9th is quite good. It has great tips on how to make the reader care about the message your scene is trying to convey.
Are you blocked? Stumped? Frozen with indecision? Don’t know what to write next? Mind blank? Try Women On Writing’s Beating Writer’s Block tips.
Querying:
Ulysses shares a most excellent query critique from The Rejectionist.
J. Martin weighs in on how to write a perfect(ly dreadful) query. Funny. You’ll actually find yourself picking up some good how-not-to tips.
Networking:
7 Ways to Create a Professional Twitter Presence. Good tips for the beginner. I’m not down with posting your phone number though. Unless, of course, your Twitter account is for a separate business. (What I’m saying: Don’t post your home number, but do post a business number if appropriate.)
Tips on how not to commit social networking suicide from PR guru Sasha Muradali. This should be a must-read for anyone thinking about using online social networking.
Fun:
Liana Brooks reposted my quiz on whether you are a book slut. As it turns out, I am also a plot whore as per Liana’s quiz. Cool beans. Are you?
Ten Gifts to Give a Writer by Margaret Atwood as well as commenters suggestions as well. Who knew she had a blog? It’s for her new book. Cool.
13 responses to “Good Links: December Edition”
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Great links, Jean – I missed a couple of these so I’ll have to check them out. December was a very busy month
Wishing you all the best and the brightest for the New Year!
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As always Jean, you found some great links. Thanks for posting them. And like Jemi, I missed a few, too. I’ll check them out.
Happy New Year!
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Thanks ladies!
Happy New Year too you two as well! May your writing dreams come true. (Wow, that sounded really cheesy! Sorry about the cheese factor!)
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It’s okay. I like cheese.
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Great links – thanks for sharing. Happy New Year!
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Whew! I like cheese, too, TK. Although, I do try to avoid it in my writing!
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Thanks, Anna. And thanks for stopping by.
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Jean, thanks for the recap on great sites. I love checking out the ones I missed during the month.
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Hey, no problem! There’s some good stuff out there, isn’t there?
Happy New Year!
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Good stuff, as always, Jean! I’m tickled to make your list, too. Happy New Year!
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I loved your query letter. It had a certain je ne se quoi.
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Hi there!
Thank you so much for including me and my blog post on social media into your piece!I really appreciate it and am very humbled
Best wishes,
Sasha -
Your blog is probably one of the nicest I’ve seen lately. I love the layout and the banner. And the content is fantastic too, obviously.
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Jemi Fraser December 30th, 2009 at 11:35