Reading and Writing Links

Since I gave you a link for a Fantasy anthology yesterday, it's only fitting that I link you up with a series of essays about Fantasy World Building written by Patricia C. Wrede. This page also has links to eight essays on different aspects of Fantasy world building. http://www.sfwa.org/2009/08/fantasy-worldbuilding-questions-the-world/

This link http://cba-ramblings.blogspot.com/2009/08/fiction-writing-craft-and-story.html/ will take you to an excellent essay from literary agent, Rachelle Gardner, about craft and story in fiction writing. I immediately thought of Nora Roberts when I read this one. I recently read a couple of her books and the writing just drove me nuts but the story kept me from throwing the book up against the wall. An even more important factor for short stories than novels. You have to tell a story that compels your readers to keep reading.

Over at The Kill Zone blog, Joe Moore has a post about putting conflict in a story. http://killzoneauthors.blogspot.com/2009/08/secret-to-writing-thriller.html

And JD Rhodes has a great post on rules over at Murderati this morning with lots of links off his post to others. http://www.murderati.com/blog

Over at the Rap Sheet you find will a short story by Tom Cain called Blood Sport. It's broken into three parts, I'm posting the link to the ending as all three links are at the beginning for you to click back to the start. http://therapsheet.blogspot.com/2009/08/bloodsport-part-iii-never-before.html

And the new issue of ThugLit has hit the streets http://thuglit.com/ You'll find stories by Joseph Winter, Anna Russell, Brian Murphy, Jack Bates, Levi Smock, Kevin Limiti, Joe Clifford, and Robert McClure.