Links have been in short supply of late as nearly everyone is weighing in on the Amazon vs Macmillan (okay, I just typed MacMillion - I wonder what my brain is trying to tell me!) but I've been clicking about and think I've got a few that might be of interest.
Over at Jason Sanford's blog there's an interview with David Backer who has just created a new website for short stories - with a twist. http://www.jasonsanford.com/jason/2010/02/fictiondaily.html
Mr. Backer finds stories that are already published and links to them without giving the titles or author names. He has three categories, short, long and genre. For those of you looking for markets he also has a long list of zines and links. You can find Fiction Daily here http://fictiondaily.org/
David Barber has an interesting conversation going on about writing at his blog. His advice - stop moaning and just write. He even gives you a few places to find ideas. http://davidbarberfiction.blogspot.com/2010/02/dont-moan-about-itjust-write.html
And Dave White extends that advice with his post over at Do Some Damage by telling writers to just do what works for you. http://dosomedamage.blogspot.com/2010/02/writing-advice.html
Once you've got all that down pat, drop on by Michael Bracken's place and check out the ins and outs of the financial life of a freelancer. http://crimefictionwriter.blogspot.com/2010/01/show-me-money.html
Can't come up with any ideas? With a hat tip to Charles Tan we have The Fiction Writing Directorate http://www.verbhounds.com/ prompts to get you started.
Still stuck? Try Donna Moore's essay "From Noir to Cosy in 12 Easy Stages" http://bigbeatfrombadsville.blogspot.com/2010/02/from-noir-to-cosy-in-12-easy-stages.html
6 comments:
I've seen most of these links and there certainly is a lot brewing in our world. But my eye is on the Amazon battle. This has long reaching effects and I'm not sure where the bottom is in all of it.
Have you checked out Scalzi's blog for info on the amazon battle? he must have at least a dozen posts and hundreds of comments about what's going on. http://what-ever.scalzi.com
Oh, yes, if you go to Charles Tan's blog http://charles-tan.blogspot.com and scroll down through the posts you'll find lots of links to other writers who are discussing this. For the last few days, he's separated those links out so they're easy to find.
Thanks for the mention Sandra. It wasn't a post that was really meant to cause a discussion, more to plug the few sites that I mentioned. But a good discussion is nice. :-)
There's some other good links here as well. Great post.
Regards, David.
Thanks Sandra. I will check these out.
Lots of good reading here.
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