Author Inspiration and Last Week’s Writing Links

Ciao, amici!

1. Weekends are family time for me and I’m having trouble balancing my time with them while keeping up with your comments. I want to give you the time you deserve, so posting during the week makes more sense.
2. Friday posts cost me the ability to add Friday and weekend links. So I decided to give you a week’s worth of links—specifically, the last week’s links—on Mondays.

We’ll try it this way for a while and see how it goes. Who knows? I may end up moving the post again. But I think I finally have the right day. It’s all a learning process. Which brings me to this week’s quote by the talented and prolific James Scott Bell:

Finish your novel. Because you learn more that way than any other.

Writing—good writing—doesn’t just happen. It’s a learning process. I have a master’s degree in writing and decades of experience, and I still learn, still improve. I’m proud of what I currently know, but I’d like to think twenty years from now, I’ll look back on today and marvel at how far I’ve come. I know I currently look back at my writing from twenty years ago and am surprised at what I’ve learned since then. I’ve finished more novels this year than ever before. To date, since January 1, I’ve written five novels plus some shorter works. And I’ve learned something with each completed work. My wish for you is that you write more this year than ever before, and that you learn with every word, too. And now, last week’s writing links: Posts by me, about my work, or at sites I contribute to: Me

• New Release by Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene: Atonement in Bloom

Story Empire

• Simultaneous Action in Writing | Mae Clair
• Managing Twitter with TweetDeck | Me
• Your Favorite Setting | Mae Clair

Romance University

• Using a Notebook to Write a Series | Nan Reinhardt
• Authenticity in Social Media | Jade Parker
• Demons are Halo-less Angels | Jeri Westerson

Posts by others in the industry:

• KDP Key Words | Nicholas C. Rossis
• Internalization | Fiction University
• Fast First Drafts | Standout Books
• Twitter for Authors | Web Design Relief
• Point of View Writing | The Write Practice
• The Case for Flash Fiction | Live Write Thrive
• POV | Re:Fiction
• The Steampunk Genre | Re:Fiction
• BookBub Purchasing Infographic | BookBub
• Nail Your Opening | Writers Helping Writers
• 5 Stops on the Main Character’s Journey | Fiction University
• Book Cover Colors | The Write Practice
• Adding Tension | Well-Storied
• Misconceptions about Short Story Submissions | Morgan Hazelwood
• Research, Worldbuilding, and Writing | Fiction University
• Follow Your Dreams through Writing | Nicholas C. Rossis
• 7 Dialogue Downers | K. M. Allan
• Winning NaNoWriMo | Kobo Writing Life

And when you’re done with these links, don’t forget to check out the sidebar, where you’ll find more links to some of my favorite sites. Have a great week! Arrivederci!