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The Obvious Secret to Getting Published in a Magazine

Photo credit: Henry Bush (Creative Commons) Before you write your first book , you should publish at least a dozen magazine articles. http://goinswriter.com/getting-published-magazine/
I’m not sure how to open this post. I thought about playing the simile card and saying something about how becoming a better writer is a lot like becoming a better other thing – a better architect, a better juggler, a better OPI color namer, a better human. That would have been entirely true. http://www.noveldoctor.com/2012/01/06/how-do-you-know-youre-growing-as-a-writer/

How Do You Know You’re Growing as a Writer? | noveldoctor

13 Weird Ways to Work Through Creative Blocks

Yesterday, I wrote about how creative blocks are not necessarily a bad thing. http://goinswriter.com/work-through-creative-blocks/

Ten rules for writing fiction | Books

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-writing-fiction-part-one Elmore Leonard : Using adverbs is a mortal sin 1 Never open a book with weather. If it's only to create atmosphere, and not a charac­ter's reaction to the weather, you don't want to go on too long.

25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer

When George Plimpton asked Ernest Hemingway what the best training for an aspiring writer would be in a 1954 interview , Hem replied, “Let’s say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult. http://99u.com/tips/7082/25-Insights-on-Becoming-a-Better-Writer
On Blogging

http://jodyhedlund.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-to-drive-yourself-crazy-as-writer.html

How To Drive Yourself Crazy as a Writer

Here are four simple ways to drive yourself crazy (or to drive other writers & readers crazy!): 1.