Successful Blog - Working in the Wrong Order OR How to Stop Building a Writer’s Block

“ Very often without realizing, we send the muse packing. We build our own writer’s block instead — simply by how we order our day.”

By Liz (M. E.) Strauss — see more at the link.

MetaxuCafe.

Theme: the worst thing you can do.

“I love writing poetry and short stories, but quite frankly I am not sure I really understand ‘theme’. It seems obvious, yet sometimes I have no idea what I am writing about. “

see more at the link.

Buzz, Balls & Hype : Between the Covers

Interesting comparison of debut “hyped” novels — a couple did well, a couple didn’t. Why?
As ever, excellent post from author M J Rose.

Paperback Writer: Notable Ten

Ten things to help with your writing notes (”things” = software).

The Elegant Variation: MONDAY MARGINALIA

For those who, like me, keep seeing knowing references to Bat Segundo but can’t work out what it is, see here: BS is a “formidable repository of interviews with writers” on the web. 

Buzz, Balls & Hype : Bad News To Die For

Marketing a debut (successful?) thriller.

Author query: The good and the bad of copyediting at Deanna Hoak

What authors love and hate about copyediting.

See also Understanding your copyedited manuscript, same blog.

View From The Pundy House: Finding My Voice

Thoughts on the contrast between the spontaneity of writing for a blog compared with the formality of “writerly prose”.

Grumpy Old Bookman: Ian R. MacLeod: The Summer Isles

Nice book review, but also background on small publishing and how the book was published.