Here are the Blogs in the Writing Related Links category.
Monday, 3 October 2011
TheSimplerLife.net's 14 Links to Make You A More Intelligent Person
As a writer, you can't suffer from being smarter. But easier said than done. Really...where to begin. You aren't doing yourself any favors by choosing a random direction and marching when there are resources out there that can quicken the work.
And to that end, Sam Spurlin's The Simpler
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Posted on 10/03/2011 2:19 AM by Thomas McAuley
Monday, 26 September 2011
Banned Books Week: Sept 24-Oct 1
“A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.”
– Laurence Peter, professor of Education
It's hard to believe that in today's world there remain books that are banned. Let me clarify that. It's not difficult to believe that there are banned books.
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Posted on 09/26/2011 9:00 AM by Thomas McAuley
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
No need to write OR Brown University's Proppian Fairy Tale Generator v1.0
And there you have it -- no more need to write. Not now that computers can do the writing for it. I reckon this'll be my last post.
Ok...It won't be my last post and there still remains a need to write, even if Brown University has a tool on their website that claims to generate fairy tales.
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Posted on 09/21/2011 8:30 AM by Thomas McAuley
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
50 Most Influential Books of the Last 50 (or so) Years from SuperScholar.org
In compiling the books on this list, the editors at SuperScholar have tried to provide a window into the culture of the last 50 years. Ideally, if you read every book on this list, you will know how we got to where we are today. Not all the books on this list are “great.” The criterion for
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Posted on 09/20/2011 1:25 AM by Thomas McAuley
Friday, 16 September 2011
Somebody's list of the 100 most beautiful words in the English language
I found this list somewhere or other. And the way the site phrased it, they also had found it somewhere they couldn't name, so let's just not fret too much about credits. It's a list, for God's sake.
Anyway...it's alphabetical. What would be pimp would be a list in order of beauty.
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Posted on 09/16/2011 12:01 AM by Thomas McAuley
Thursday, 15 September 2011
Getting wonderfully lost in classic books' opening lines
Last night, I stumbled on -- literally stumbled upon as in StumbleUpon.com -- a brilliant article on the British site Style.co.uk entitled "The Best 100 Opening Lines from Books" and immediately lost myself, sidetracked, hovering and clicking.
One bit of genius after the other. Some
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Posted on 09/15/2011 2:26 AM by Thomas McAuley
Friday, 9 September 2011
Writing tip of the day: Don't buy a gun, booze or lengths or rope.
At the risk of coming off creepy and/or indelicate, I want touch on something that piqued my curiosity.
A most disturbing conversation was hit upon a couple nights ago in my bi-weekly critique group. One of our members mentioned the extraordinary number of known and established writers who have
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Posted on 09/09/2011 3:05 AM by Thomas McAuley
Thursday, 16 June 2011
Katja From the Punk Band Done. Happy. Hit me again.
After too long spent reading it, I finally finished Simon Logan's strong industrial novel, Katja From the Punk Band.
It's a boner-worthy romp that follows an assortment of characters who each own their own, unique piece of this dark world. The forward, backward and sideways time jumps don't
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Posted on 06/16/2011 8:44 AM by Thomas McAuley
Monday, 21 March 2011
My writing recipe (My typical two-week schedule)
Following on the change-things-up-everyday vibe from yesterday (see A great way to break up your writing week) I realized that I'm already doing something similar, to a point. Admittedly, I don't feel I need to mix things up in the same way as I did when I was just beginning, having written
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Posted on 03/21/2011 8:43 AM by Thomas McAuley
Friday, 18 March 2011
Polyglotism, here I come
I ran across The Polyglot Project this morning, a site that allows you to choose famous (classic) works in a number of languages, read the words you can and highlight to translate the ones you don't. Genius.
[A polyglot, for those of you unfamiliar with the term, is a person who knows and is
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Posted on 03/18/2011 7:30 AM by Thomas McAuley
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Public domain reading galore
I admit I didn't already know there were hundreds of thousands of public domain books available on the Internet. I, like many -- I suppose, or at least hope -- assumed that since I saw copies of Austen's Pride and Prejudice and so many other classics in bookstores and available online, that
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Posted on 03/16/2011 8:01 AM by Thomas McAuley
Monday, 21 February 2011
In celebration of Duotrope
Submitting stories sucks. I think most writers would agree. Let's put it this way, if you enjoy submitting more than you enjoy writing, you should not be writing.
Still, submitting is a vital part of becoming a successful -- at least know -- writer. And there's no better tool I know about
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Posted on 02/21/2011 9:21 AM by Thomas McAuley
Thursday, 14 October 2010
One Sentence: True Stories Told in One Sentence
I Stumbled Upon (stumbleupon.com) a wonderful, simple site called One Sentence: True Stories Told in One Sentence (onesentence.org). It is a one of probably hundreds of sites like it, showcasing the very, very short story. But One Sentence focuses strictly on the one-sentence story.
There is
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Posted on 10/14/2010 6:39 AM by Thomas McAuley
Monday, 2 August 2010
Developing Memorable Characters: 45 Questions to Create Backstories
This was an intriguing article I found at Suite101.com from May 5, 2008 by Anita Riggio.
Click here for the full article.
Keep in mind when you read this that you're not limited to this list. That may sound obvious to any but the most novice writer, but some folks take things WAY too literally.
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Posted on 08/02/2010 10:47 PM by Thomas McAuley
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Andrew Bosley's Brainstormer: Random Story Prompt Generator
Andrew Bosley's Brainstormer, which can be found at http://andrewbosley.com/the-brainstormer.html or obtained as an iPhone app (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-brainstormer/id374496865) is the most fun story prompt generator I've ever used.
Andrew Bosley is a self-described concept artist working
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Posted on 07/28/2010 9:45 AM by Thomas McAuley
