Here are my Friday Reruns for this week.

In Not the ‘right’ book on This Itch of Writing, Emma Darwin explores how she goes about choosing which book idea to take seriously for her next project.

Of course once you’ve got a WIP in mind, it’s time to begin. You can check out this series by Anita Nolan on her blog, starting with Things the First Few Pages Need to Accomplish. The rest of the series can be found at http://anitanolan.wordpress.com.

I have great confidence in a writing book when the person writing about it has been writing for thirty years – and still admits to learning something new. Stephen Pressfield writes about his impressions of literary agent Noak Lukeman’s book, The First Five Pages.

This week on the Self Editing Blog, John Robert Marlow writes about something worse than a bad story – a good story with a bad ending in Coming to a Bad End: Rabbit-Hats, Cliffbangers, and Other Cheats.

It starts with the standard “what is it about?” question you get after you tell someone you’re writing is a book, but what you really need is a ‘hook’ – that 30-second elevator pitch that “strikes at the heart of your story.” Justine Musk wrote two great posts this week on how to figure out your novel ‘hook’ part 1 & part 2

The Killer Hobbies blog ran an Online Writing Clinic this week with topics ranging from characters and scenes to plotting and point of view. Becky Levine provides a guest blog on Friday on Getting the Most from a Critique Group. And be sure to check out Saturday’s topic: setting.

Stealing is wrong; except when it’s right. Joanna Penn on Why Do Great Writers Steal?

Write what you know is common writing advice, but what if you’re not sure what you know? Check out Suzannah’s post on Write it Sideways, Embrace Your Comfort Zone: 50 Writing Prompts for Writing What You Know.

Keri Smith has secret powers. Read this great essay with fun illustrations: How I Discovered my Secret Powers.

lara
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