It’s Saturday, so again I have collected a bunch of wonderful posts from this past week. Enjoy and don’t forget to see, at the bottom, what Jeff has selected for us to listen to this week.
Write Fresh
Marcy Kennedy made it easy to understand where to put descriptions and where to cut in How to Use Taste to Make Your Readers Hungry for More
Janice Hardy at The Other Side of the Story made me smile with this post title Did I Just Say That? When Characters Say Dumb Things. My characters can say some pretty dumb things and I love it. Do you?
Characters
Susan Bearman at Write it Sideways gave advice to remember Fall Out of Love with Your Main Character
Plot
Janice Hardy at The Other Side of the Story talked plot yesterday and I’ve read these ideas before, but this post looks at things from a new angle The Best Advice on Plotting I’ve Ever Heard: Two Tips That Will Make Plotting Easier
Writer Business
Aimee Salter over at Seeking the Write Life provided some levity: Top 10 Reasons You Need An Editor
Rachel Kent at Books & Such gave a refreshing list Qualities Agents Look for in Clients
Sara Megibow was at Romance University this week laying it all out Sara Megibow Sells Romance – Who is a “good” literary agent?
Music from Jeff
Barton Hollow by The Civil Wars. Even though they are only a duo, they have a collective group sound.You may remember seeing them on the grammy’s this past year. I think they won a bunch of ‘em.
They’re a great songwriting duo whose voices blend perfectly. What’s very cool about this group is that, while they have a great vocal blend, their individual voices are fairly distinct. With a unique voice it can often be difficult to blend with anyone else, let alone another unique voice. It’s a rare and special thing when this happens and I think they realized it right away. Plus, they seem to write songs well together…another tricky skill.
The whole album is quite a bit more mellow than this tune but I’ve been enjoying. They also have a really cool version of ‘I want you back’ by the Jackson 5. They contributed a few tunes, including one with Taylor Swift (that certainly adds to her lacking credibility), for the hunger games movie. Those tunes (even the one with Taylor Swift) are very good as well.
p.s. they are not a couple. They are each married to other people. I think they get that question a lot because of how close they seem to be.
Hope you enjoyed the links this week. Did you miss my Flash Fiction from yesterday? And last, don’t forget to come back tomorrow for my six sentences from my WIP.
S.J. Maylee 
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