Here’s a bunch of blog posts that you should check out.  Some are writing related and some are just related to good writing.  Not always the same thing.    Anyway, check these out when you need something to pass the time, you know, when you should be writing. 

1)      FANTASTIC post by Jamie at Defying Gravity.  She hits it dead center and she’s right.  It’s up to us.  We’re teaching the next generation and if we aren’t careful, we’ll teach them the wrong stuff.  Check out her post and change your life.

2) Top 10 Motivation Boosters and Procrastination Killers 

3) The Way We Dress – A fascinating article at Dear Author that asks questions about what women wear, what make s a professional, why there is a double standard with men, etc.  A bit of a frustrating article but something that we, as women, should think about, esp. how we can change it. 

4) June and July book launches for Carina Press

5) Amazing post on the difference between reading as an adult and as a child.  If you read as a kid and fell INLOVE with the books and the worlds that you were living in, even if it was only for a few hours, then you need to read this post.  Incredible stuff. 

6) A Wish For Someone Else’s Daughter – This is just beautiful.  Words that I want to share with all of you and would  love to share with my own daughter someday in the future. 

7) Plotting Made Easy – The Complications Worksheet

8)  Plotting Along- this is a post about revising your work and how to get through that process and down to the good stuff that stays, the bad stuff that goes and the new stuff that fills in the holes.  Great post and great inspiration towards getting my own revisions going. 

9) 21 Ideas to Get your Story out of the Slush Pile 

10) Tips for Blending in Backstory

11)  Netflix Friday #8 -Zulu – I read this review of a 1964 film that has been out of print for a while but is now available to stream on Netflix.  The write-up at this blog is brilliant and made me want to get home RIGHT NOW to watch this flick.   You all should read it.  And then go and stream the damn thing on Netflix.  DO IT. 

12) Netflix Friday #7 – Invader Zim – BEST. WRITE-UP. EVER.  For serious.