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LinkFest ~ Best Reads on Writing, Screenwriting & Self-Publishing: If The Word Doesn’t Exist, Invent It

in Reads on Writing & Self-Publishing on 17/06/16

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[perfectpullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””] If the word doesn’t exist, invent it. -Charles Baudelaire. [/perfectpullquote]

WRITING

  • Are flashbacks fizzling your fiction?  | KRISTEN LAMB’S BLOG


We need to broaden our understanding of the “flashback” because lumping every backwards shift in time under one umbrella won’t work.

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Novel writing mastery


  • All about commas | THE WRITE PRACTICE

Commas matter. That tiny period-with-a-tail can change the meaning of your entire sentence, and your use of it quickly demonstrates just how well you know the English language.

Related content:

The only grammar book you’ll ever need


  • Taking risks with co-writing diversity | BOOKS BY WOMEN

‘Mentally risky’ means that authors often tackle subjects which can disturb others, by presenting unusual viewpoints, and causing the reader to question their usual attitudes.

Related content: 

Characters & Viewpoint


  • Building a story garden: The power of settings in fiction | WRITERS HELPING WRITERS

Setting is not a backdrop. It isn’t just a jumble of sights and sounds and smells and tastes and textures. It is so much more.

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The urban setting thesaurus


  • The only character questionnaire you need to complete | WRITERS WRITE

Complete this questionnaire for your character even if you never use the information in your book.

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1001 questions to help flesh out your character


  • Character need: Psychological + Moral | WRITE ON SISTERS

Early on in my career, I learned that the hero’s WANT and NEED are two separate things and integral to the Character Arc.

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Characters & Viewpoint


  • 5 Tips for editing dialogue  | WRITER’S DIGEST

Dialogue is the writer’s equivalent of the Swiss army knife. What other storytelling tool lets you reveal character, advance the plot, establish the setting, and deliver a theme, all at the same time? Well-written dialogue is a fast and easy read.

Related content:

Writing great dialogue


+ Related books:

  • How to write dazzling dialogue
  • Writing success: Your book from start to finish to publication
  • Outlining your novel
  • Writing deep point of view
  • The art of memoir
  • Reading like a Writer 
  • Rock your revisions
  • The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide To Character Expression

 SCREENWRITING

 

  • WHAT’S IN A MIND?: Understanding antagonists | SCRIPT MAG

If a film or screenplay makes me loath but love, then empathise but hate the antagonist – all in one sitting – then a massive bravo to that screenwriter from yours truly (insert standing ovation here).


  • How to sound like a professional screenwriter | LA SCREENWRITER

So, how do you know if you’re sounding like a pro or an amateur?

 

  • Hitchcock and the ticking time bomb: Are we doing it wrong? | SCRIPT MAG

Alfred Hitchcock is without a doubt one of the giants of film and television.


  • Why you should join a writers group | LA SCREENWRITER

You should join a writers group. Today.


  • Why if you hate The Walking Dead? | KEN LEVINE

What must it be like for critics when time or circumstances make it harder for them to do their job?


Related books:

  • Super Structure: The key to unleashing the power of story
  • Screenplay: The foundations of screenwriting
  • Essentials of screenwriting
  • Screenwriting: The sequence approach
  • 33 Ways to sell your screenplay
  • The eight characters of comedy

SELF-PUBLISHING

 

  • Should you migrate your books from Smashwords to Draft2Digital? | SKIPJACK PUBLISHING

All my future books, I will aggregate through D2D. But not all my current ones. So what’s to stop me from adding all my books to D2D now?


  • My latest advice on book publishing and marketing | JANE FRIEDMAN

Advice on how to make the jump from indie author to traditional publishing—or if you should


  • Build your global sales with Kobo writing life | THE BOOK DESIGNER

Why should self-published authors and small publishers distribute directly to Kobo? And how can you grow your global sales?


  • Why you can’t expect success from publishing a book | JUST PUBLISHING ADVICE

How do you know if your book is going to sell? You don’t.


  • How to customize your email newsletter sign-up forms to increase reader engagement | JANE FRIEDMAN

The connection with your email newsletter subscribers starts much sooner than you think. Connection begins somewhere unexpected, in a place that many gloss over or ignore altogether: your signup forms.


Related books:

  • Self Publishing: My rules to staying alive and making money
  • How I sold 80,000 books
  • Write. Publish. Repeat: The no-luck-required guide to self-publishing success
  • Createspace & Kindle Self Publishing Masterclass
  • The Self-Publishing Road Map

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