I don’t know how they all do it, but man I loved the posts this week…

Craft Books

I’m starting with the big guns, Jennifer Crusie put together a list of writing craft books: The Argh Writing Craft Reading List

Plotting & Prose

Kara Lennox, a.k.a. Karen Leabo joined Writers In The Storm and her first post is fantastic! Plot Fixer – Part I: Your Premise Isn’t Compelling

Katie Ganshert was at Rachelle Gardner’s this week and provided the 2-3 punch, seriously good stuff: Balancing Story and Prose 

May 14th! So exciting, that’s when…well check out the post from The Bookshelf Muse: Official Deets About The Emotion Thesaurus

Blurbs

Sharla Rae, was also at Writers in the Storm this week: Gotcha Blurbs: Easy and Fun To Write

Social Media

Molly Greene has an updated one of her popular posts: How To Succeed On Twitter

Writer Business

Do you have the patient’s to be a writer? I’ve read a lot on the web about the coming and goings of would be writers. Not all of us have what it takes or the patience to do the training it takes. Here’s hoping I’m still around next year and I just might, because even the title of this next post didn’t scare me away 🙂 Thanks Rachelle Gardner for the reality check: Writers and Taxes

Place Descriptions

Lydia Sharp over at The Sharp Angle provided good food for thought: Finding Excitement Potential in a Potentially Boring Setting

Characters

Becca Puglisi of  The Bookshelf Muse was over at write to done and gave us: Beyond the Cliché: How to Create Characters that Fascinate

Editing

Janice Hardy hit it right out of the park with this one Seems So: Are Your Characters Making Misleading Assumptions?

Backing-up

What’s your back-up plan? Is it a wish and a prayer? Do you email your most import files to yourself? Do you have a flash drive? Do you use a service? I’ve used all theses including drop boxes free service, it’s only 2 GB, but it’s free. I don’t know about you, but all of my writing stuff is not yet 2 GB. If you refer folks they’ll give you even more free space…here’s my referral code if you’d like to give it a try: http://db.tt/EiAxz9qS and if you do, don’t forget to share the love and send out your referral code. Help a friend day: do you know someone who’s plan is a wish and a prayer?

Thank you Susan Hanniford Crowley, I like this check list and I’m going to create my own: What A Writer Needs, Part 9 – Encouragement

Hope you all are having a fine weekend and maybe a little chocolate. Tomorrow I’m looking forward to the deviled eggs, yummy 🙂

I’m going on vacation and I can not wait!! I’ll be missing a couple of Six Sundays, everyone needs a vacation every now and again, but I’m still sad to miss out on the fun. One thing I will NOT be taking a vacation from is all the blog reading. This week was freakin fantastic, lots of good stuff below: recipes, craft help, quick tips, my own links & a vid from the super awesome Dave Grohl

So many good things all in one place: gluten free recipes, a Dirty Fighting contest reminder and tons of great links from NakedEditor Tiffany Lawson Inman all from Jenny Hansen’s blog post #ROW80 Update: Life Without Gluten. Jenny also posted a keep at Writers In The Storm: Using The 12 Stages of Physical Intimacy To Build Tension In Your Fiction

Sharla Rae also over at Writers In The Storm this week posted Place Descriptions – Part 2: Waterways

I spend time on social media, a little bit everyday, but my main focus right now is my craft and actually writing. Couple of great posts this week from Bob Mayer THE Secret Handshake of Successful Digital Publishing and from Gabrielle Bisset What Counts.

The beautiful Kait Nolan (who’s nominated for a  DABWAHA!!), her blog is one of the 1st blogs I started to follow, this week she asked: Are You A Writer? OWN IT!

Lydia Sharp provided a Quick Tip at The Sharp Angel, this might become a weekly or even daily habit to keep my mind open and flowing with ideas

Love finding new blogs to follow, Jane Friedman provided this advice: How to Identify Top Websites & Blogs in Your Category

I’m still reading James Scott Bell’s Plot & Structure, but I’m already looking for my next read. Thanks Roni Loren for providing Twelve Writer Woes and the Books to Cure Them

Jason Boog over at GalleyCat provided a cool tool in How to Check Your Grammar Online

Janice Hardy at The Other Side of the Story provided a plotting idea: Being Evil: Plotting From the Antagonist’s Perspective

I’ve forgotten to list here items I’ve posted, silly S. J. Last week I posted here Is it time for swim class?. Each week I also blog over at Simply Sidney & this week I posted Scale Day v36.0 and Homemade Taco Seasoning

As writers (yes, I’m including myself in that group *BigGrin*) we know NOT to bore our reader and to keep our story moving FORWARD. Apparently the same is true for song writers. Here’s a lesson from Dave Grohl on how to write a hit song, and that’s Kyle Gass from the band Tenacious D!!

Thanks for stopping by today, see you guys next Saturday for a whole new round of finds

I’ve had an interesting week. I’m trying to reign in the crazy (but educating) amount of time I spend on reading blogs. I collected blogs to read all week, but did not read them until a specified time. It was hard at first to stay on task and file posts away for later, but man I got things done this week!…anywho…here are the sweet morsels I found and must share this week. They were all worth waiting for 🙂

Marc and Angel Hack Life offered up some fan~freaking~tastic advice with the post 12 Things Highly Productive People Do Differently (I’ll be talking more about this post in my ROW80 update tomorrow!!) and while you are there take a look at 12 Things Successful People Do Differently really good stuff, yum!

The lovely Kristen Lamb provided The Seven Deadly Sins of Prologues. She not only warns of the pitfalls, she also explains when they can be a good idea, plus she provides links to a bunch of other posts on the topic

Have you joined a tribe on triberr yet? I have, but need to spend a lot more time figuring things out and I’m going to do that by reading Jenny Hansen’s triberr posts. She has five posts now on the subject and this week’s postcontains links to the original 4. I’m filing this post away in the must read file, because it sounds like some triberr/twitter fun, from the Triberr blog: How To Turn Your Blog Into a Twitter Powerhouse

The Storyfixer, Larry Brooks, brought us this week: Elevate Your Story Through the Sublime – and Subliminal – Use of Sub-Text

Janice Hardy over at The Other Side of the Story offered up And…End Scene: When to Add a Scene Break, she provides a great list options and a warning to remember

Writers In The Storm had a lovely guest yesterday, Tiffany Lawson Inman and her post Too Quick To Tears: Emotional Timing Is Everything. Great post to read while plotting, editing, writing…

Hope you all are having a wonderful weekend! I’m off to write.