Truth Hurts . . .
For Your Information
Five Reasons Not to Criticize First Drafts – by Matt Herron – Men With Pens – http://goo.gl/Cctjw
Writer’s Block: The 12-Step Cure – By Joanna Penn – The Creative Pen – http://goo.gl/ty8WP
What Authors Need to Know About Virtual Book Tours – By Joel Friedlander – The Book Designer – http://goo.gl/maBxj
Preparing for the breakthrough/calamity – By Seth Godin – http://goo.gl/j8N3V
Video Blogging: Shooting Video with Your iPhone – By Joel Friedlander – http://goo.gl/zJ5If
The truth may hurt, so I’ll (lie) spin you a story – By Di Mace – Word Swords – http://goo.gl/WnZ0G
A Book Editor Speaks: The Challenge of the First Chapters – By Joel Friedlander – The Book Designer – http://goo.gl/dQJlV
Overcoming Writer’s Block on Your Blog – By everything – http://goo.gl/exJwS
Quote(s) of the Day
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.” – Tom Clancy
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. – William Wordsworth
On plenty of days, the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away. – Annie Dillard
Writing Contest
VCU Cabell First Novelist Award – Deadline Jan. 15, 2012 – http://goo.gl/fa5ZD