Blogs by Writers about Writing

[Dasquian Belargic]

Having just yesterday discovered that Jim Butcher, author of the Dresden Files, has a journal of sorts where he discusses the process he goes through when writing books, I thought I'd share the link: http://jimbutcher.livejournal.com/

On top of that, here's an entry by Felicia Day about how she got into writing, which in turn links to some handy books/websites: http://feliciaday.com/blog/how-i-started-writing

[Tear]

oOoo Danke for the links!

[Dasquian Belargic]

Here's an interesting article by Dan Wells on the seven-point story structure, with the Matrix as an example:

http://www.fearfulsymmetry.net/?p=314

[Lilaena De'Ville]

http://www.michaelastackpole.com/

You should listen to his The Secrets podcast.

[Ilias Nytrau]

These are great. Butcher's blog on climaxes killed me laughing. :lol

[Dasquian Belargic]

http://www.michaelastackpole.com/

You should listen to his The Secrets podcast.

This has been pretty interesting so far.

It's also making me want to buy his book The Secret Atlas... well done, Michael :mneh

[Lilaena De'Ville]

I've been combing through the podcasts to get the info from his 21 days to a Novel that I had to miss at Dragon*Con. Could buy the .pdf for easy, but can't spend the money.

I'm up to day 17 in transcribing the 'rules', but in actual writing I'm only on day 5. 'Real life' is knocking me down in a major way lately.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Is 21 days to a novel a seperate podcast? I don't see that on my list on iTunes...

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Its mixed in there. I had to scour the podcasts to find it, it starts in 'cast 17 I think.

I started a pb works wiki to hold the info for me, I can add you to it if you want.

[Dasquian Belargic]

The #17 titled Four Days to Writing?

[Lilaena De'Ville]

I think so, can't get iTunes to open to double check.

[Dasquian Belargic]

I bought Stackpole's "The Secrets - World Building" series. Will let you guys know how helpful it is :)

edit - bumping this, because these links are invaluable.