Writing Links

I ran across a couple of great essays yesterday about novel writing. While this blog is mostly about short story writing the words of wisdom in these posts are too good not to share.

Anne Fraiser's "The Clock is Ticking" is about the amount of time it takes to write a novel and some of the consequences. http://monkeywithapen.blogspot.com/2009/07/clock-is-ticking.html

Linda L. Richard's "Write Your Novel With The Door Closed" is about how to shut out all the distractions and just write. http://lindalrichards.blogspot.com/2009/07/write-your-novel-with-door-closed.html

And while Ursula K. Guin's "On Rules of Writing, or Riffing on Rechy" is applied to novels, there's a lot there for short story writers as well. http://blog.bookviewcafe.com/2009/07/16/on-rules-of-writing-or-riffing-on-rechy

For those of you who don't think the zines have an important place in the writing community, you should drop on by Thrillers Killers 'n' Chillers and read this piece http://thrillskillsnchills.blogspot.com/2009/07/short-intermission.html And it might interest you to know that since they started up in April they've had over 10,000 hits. Pretty impressive for a new zine.