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THURSDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing, Self-publishing and Better Living: Man’s Search For Meaning

in Reads on Writing & Self-Publishing on 06/08/15

Man's search for meaning

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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
~VIKTOR FRANKL, author of Man’s Search for Meaning

WRITING

  • Homme de Plume: What I learned sending my novel out under a male name, Jezebel  | Tweet

The plan made me feel dishonest and creepy, so it took me a long time to send my novel out under a man’s name. But each time I read a study about unconscious bias, I got a little closer to trying it.

  • The simple truth about finding your writing voice, Finally Writing | Tweet

When you take the opportunity to write through challenging experiences, you heal and you do something powerful for your authorial voice.

Find Your Voice: A Methodology for Enhancing Literacy Through Re-Writing and Re-Acting

 

  • Research, research, research with Ella Quinn, Romance University | Tweet

Contemporary writers may think it’s much easier for them, but if you set your story in a different country or even a different part of your own country, make sure you know what the culture is.

The Craft of Research, Third Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

 

  • Balancing dialogue and description in your story, Jane Friedman | Tweet

To shape your dialogue scene into a compact and intriguing unit, dialogue and non-dialogue have to complement each other.

Writing Active Hooks Book 2:: Evocative Description, Character, Dialogue, Foreshadowing and Where to Use Hooks


SCREENWRITING

  • Video: The use of doors in film, Go Into The Story | Tweet

Doors can signify separation… inclusion… warning… welcome… power… weakness. They are threshholds and crossing through one can lead to new experiences… and consequences.

  • Unmet needs, Flying Wrestler | Tweet

I think the best television characters want something they can never have — and spend every episode pursuing it.  What makes them compelling is that they are under siege, in some way, by the world around them, and unable to secure that version of their life that they continually fantasize about.

The Art of Screenwriting – Character: With Nicholas Kazan and Paul Attanasio


SELF-PUBLISHING

  • How to sell more books and grow your fan base at author events, The Write Life | Tweet

When we talk about building your author platform, the inescapable challenge every author must face is marketing. Particularly, email marketing.

The Author’s Marketing Handbook

 

  • Hybrid Publishing Models–an interview with promontory press, Reedsy | Tweet

Today’s ever-changing publishing industry offers a land of innovation and experimentation to the players who are not afraid to redefine what “publishing” means, or how it should work.


PSYCHOLOGY

  • What emotions are (and aren’t), NYT | Tweet

Our senses appear to show us the world the way it truly is, but they are easily deceived.
How Emotions Are Made: The New Science of the Mind and Brain


HAPPINESS

  • What do scientists know about finding a purpose in life?, The Creativity Post  | Tweet

Despite the large number of journalists, authors, and scientists who write on this topic, few provide a definition. Without clear language, it is hard to make inroads into understanding, detecting, creating, or living in accord with a purpose in life. 

Man’s Search for Meaning


EDUCATION

  • Advice for people in their early 20s, Zen Habits | Tweet

A young woman wrote to me recently about fears about the future.


HISTORY

  • How White Came to Be Synonymous With Clean and Good, Nautilus | Tweet

White has a physical purity. White light contains roughly equal amounts of every color in the visual spectrum, and activates all three types of cone cells in our eyes related to color. As a result, we perceive materials that don’t absorb color, and reflect light back to us, as achromatic—white.

Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity


MOVIES

  • Mission impenetrable: are Hollywood blockbusters losing the plot?, The Guardian | Tweet

From Fast & Furious to the Avengers, Terminator and Jurassic World, the trend for ridiculously over-complicated storylining is out of control this year. Is it time for a purge?

 

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