Here are my Friday Reruns for this week.

There was a lot of thinking going on this week... Check out this great post by Jodi Cleghorn on the Write Anything blog Thinking as Writing where she wrote about maximizing the time you actually have in front of your computer by thinking about and thinking through your writing when you can’t be writing.

Then there were two posts on thinking about the ‘shoulds’ in our creative life. Jen Blanchard on Procrastinating Writers says to Get Rid of “Should” Once and For All and Ken Robert has us Shedding the Shoulds. This post was actually part of a Collect Your Thoughts series on Mildly Creative promoting the idea of capturing those Things That Go Bump in Your Head in a Dirty, Ugly Notebook.

Now onto a different kind of thinking… When Scott Myers struggled to articulate the need for brainstorming and what his students could derive from the process he explained how in simple terms Brainstorming = Improvisation.

And when you’re ready to stop thinking and worrying, on the Writeaholic blog Deborah Riley-Magus says… “Breathe.”

I included the first of Megan Crewe’s posts on Tor.com in last week’s Friday Rerun Story Psych: A Semi-Scientific Look at What Makes a Good Story. Here are the other posts in her series on how the science of the mind can be applied to literature. Part 2 examined the role of behavioral psychology and Part 3 discussed persuasion.

Men With Pens focused on fiction writing this week with a series of posts: Creating a Setting, Creating a Character and Creating a Plot.

L.J. Sellers  goes back to the basics with her post on Blood Red Pencil: A Novel Checklist. Her eight-point list covers everything from plot and point of view to characters and unresolved issues.

Make sure to weigh in on literary agent Nathan Bransford’s post: Can anyone be a good writer? There are more than 200 comments on this post already.


lara
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