Here are my Friday Reruns for this week.
I honestly didn’t intend to have a themed post, but found that the topics of many great blog posts from this week were about the ghosts, ghouls and goblins that haunt writers each and every day. Happy Halloween!
Of course none of us sets out to fail, but Justine Musk wrote a great post on Tribal Writer this week about why Failure is Good and how the path to becoming successful is “writing your way through a succession of big and little failures.”
On Write It Sideways, Suzannah Freeman gives some tips on How to Salvage Your Writing Failures when you’re dealing with a dying piece of writing.
There was a wonderful post on The The Man Who Painted Agnieszka’s Shoes blog where Dan wrote Dealing with Dark Places: Writing and Self Doubt. Make sure you check out the comments, too.
Are you dressing up for Halloween? Check out Emma Darwin’s post on This Itch of Writing about The Anti-Writing Demon: The Inner-Critic’s Dressing-Up Box to get a glimpse of the guises in which our inner critic can appear to us.
And Bridget Chumbley wrote about the Masks we wear. Sometimes we hold back and don’t write the things we want to share in order to play it safe and not risk hurting someone, but at what cost?
With his unique approach to storytelling, director Alfred Hitchcock has a lot to teach us about telling a story. How Alfred Hitchcock can make you a better storyteller by Mark S. Luckie on the 10,000 Words blog has advice for storytellers of all kinds.
Megan Crewe’s first novel was Give Up the Ghost (see the Halloween tie in?) and in her post on Tor.com she brings her psychology background to Story Psych: A Semi-Scientific Look at What Makes a Good Story. She looks at what makes a story “good” and “memorable” from a psychological perspective. This is the first in a series of posts she’s writing on how the science of the mind can be applied to literature.
On the QueryTracker blog, Elana Johnson wrote Editing: How to Avoid Staring Into The Great Black Abyss for when the thought of editing an entire manuscript haunts you.
lara
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