Thursday, March 21, 2013

18 Links to Writing & Marketing Blog Posts


4 Ways to Motivate Characters and Plot
Some of your characters will change during the course of your story—let’s call them changers. Others—stayers—will not change significantly in personality or outlook, but their motivations may nonetheless change as the story progresses from situation to situation. Both changers and stayers can have progressive motivations.
Confused? Don’t be; it’s simpler than it may seem. Characters come in four basic types:
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If you missed my writing & marketing tweets and retweets yesterday, here they are again: 
  1. 4 Ways to Motivate Characters and Plot http://ow.ly/jdGM8 by Nancy Kress
  2. Your Story Opening: Shock vs. Seduction http://ow.ly/jdduQ via @JaneFriedman
  3. Goals! Are You Making Them Too Obvious? http://t.co/yJviwbCy59 RT @janice_hardy
  4. Write Like a Lawyer: 5 Tips for Fiction Writers: http://t.co/zbbHTPVxlR @ChuckSambuchino
  5. Why One-Star Reviews Matter: http://t.co/Mlz3IljkOn @selfpubreview RT @elizabethscraig
  6. Chores, Sleeping, Sex – What Are YOU Sacrificing For Social Media? [INFOGRAPHIC] http://ow.ly/jecoJ
  7. 18 Links to Writing & Marketing Blog Posts http://ow.ly/jf19I
  8. Marketing Tips 4 Authors: Should you judge a book by its cover? http://ow.ly/jf1rE by @CliveEaton
  9. The Bookshelf Muse: Book Signings That WOW http://t.co/bE625AZjaH RT @Janice_Hardy
  10. The Quest for the Best Word Ever http://ow.ly/jf5ak via Daily Writing Tips
  11. Marketing Tips for Authors: Sell more books with Createspace http://ow.ly/jf1Ip by @CliveEaton
  12. Narrative Arcs and Progressions http://ow.ly/jfB0r via Fiction Notes
  13. 12 Basic Steps to Publishing through Create Space http://ow.ly/jfBhf via @TeamMegaphone
  14. How Being Tired Can Make You a Better Writer http://ow.ly/jfHsm via @KristenLambTX
  15. Be Your Own Book Doctor http://ow.ly/jfHCW via @Janice_Hardy
  16. A Twitter Spring Cleaning Checklist http://ow.ly/jfIVv Give your Twitter profile design a refresh . . .
  17. 26 Ways to Use Visuals in Your Social Media Marketing http://ow.ly/jfJv1 via @smexaminer
  18. Make a Living as a Writer – Part 1 via @RachelleGardner http://ow.ly/jfJLS 

I’m always looking for great content to share. If you have a writing and/or marketing blog, or have a favorite that you visit often, please leave a link in the comment section. Thanks for stopping by.

Happy writing & running, Kathy

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