For Your Information

Know Thyself. 7 Truths About Writers – By Joanna Penn – For Write to Done – http://goo.gl/L6bR2

Print Books: The New Vanity Publishing? – By Joanna Penn – For The Book Designer – http://goo.gl/u49fp

An endless series of difficult but achievable hills – By Seth Godin – http://goo.gl/U9xCY

Is traditional copywriting dead? – By Heather – Success Works – http://goo.gl/rRc3b

How to Create and Host a Blog Carnival – By Greg McFarlane – Problogger – http://goo.gl/L78UC

The Authors Guild on Amazon: Publishing’s Ecosystem on the Brink – By Victoria Strauss – Writer Beware – http://goo.gl/sXUVC

The Role of Editors: A Writer’s Viewpoint – By Juliet Marillier – Writer Unboxed - http://goo.gl/EEPRk

Writing Contest: “Show Off” Writing Contest: The Love Story Edition – By Joe Bunting – The Write Practice – Deadline – Feb. 10, 2012 – http://goo.gl/hQUsj

The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing a Book that Doesn’t Suck – By Jeff Goins – http://goo.gl/PkA4I

The Biggest Mistake Most Writers Make – By Sean Platt – For Write to Done – http://goo.gl/Eu2lK

Why it makes sense for Amazon to open its own stores – By Ryan Kim – Gigaom – http://goo.gl/YZVju

5 Things I Learned from Shirley Jackson – By Victoria Mixon – http://goo.gl/W6JCf

Another Chain Says It Won’t Carry Amazon Books, But Does It Matter? – By Laura Owen – paidcontent – http://goo.gl/vn6xG

6 Exercises for Stronger Character Relationships – By Yelizaveta Renfro – For Jan Friedman – http://goo.gl/Y7Xum

 

Quote(s) of the Day

“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.” – Robert A. Heinlein

 

 

Special Tribute

Britain marks Charles Dickens’ 200^th birthday – By Jill Lawless – timesunion – http://goo.gl/EeAbB

Known as Charles John Huffam Dickens, an English novelist  who was born  February 7,  1812 and died June 9, 1870.

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Alandra CL

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Editor Admits to Sleeping with Readers and Recommends You Do the Same – By Jonathan Morrow – Copyblogger -http://goo.gl/XEUdm

21 Most Popular E-scientists – By  E-Junkie.Info – http://goo.gl/XjKxz

Pearson Education Extends Scope of Permissions Licenses – By Victoria Strauss – Writers Beware –  http://goo.gl/6uc8M

Why You Should Never Write Like You Talk – By Taylor Linstrom – Men With Pens – http://goo.gl/jEqIp

How to Take Criticism – By Joanna Penn – The Creative Penn – http://goo.gl/odagC

Your “How-To” Post Will Fail If You Don’t Use These Techniques – By Neil Patel – Problogger – http://goo.gl/wIh7h

 

 

Quote(s) of the Day

“I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.”  – Randy Pausch

“The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

 

Writing Contest

Meridian 2012 Edotors’ Prize Contest – Fiction and Poetry – Deadline Dec. 31, 2011 – http://goo.gl/w97Sa

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Alandra CL

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