On The Web: Writing about fiction writing

July 22, 2007 by John Hewitt

This week the blogosphere was chock full of fiction writing advice. Advice is always useful, just try to remember that the time you spend reading advice can be spent just as profitably writing. Here are a few nuggets for you to chew on.

Writing science fiction; writing fictional interviews: “If the phrase “next on CNN, an interview with a cyberdragon” then this is the article for you.
10 Writing Rules You Should Break and Why: Break them, don’t break them, decide for yourself.
Writing Advice: Ignoring the rules, and craft is crap: “Reading the advice of other writers and publishing industry professionals is useful to a degree directly proportional to the amount of fiction writing the reader of the advice actually achieves.”
Fiction Writing Pitfalls and Successful Strategies: How to blast through writer’s block.
The single simplest and most effective technique known to improve fiction writing and journalism: A passionate, intense, concise attack on adjectives.
Plot chart for fiction writing: Learn to plot like J.K. Rowling!
A Roadmap for Your Fiction Writing Career: Because unpublished is a dirty word.
It Came From the Slush …and Survived! “Even the best of us were once nobodies, striving to make an impression upon the critical eye of someone who can help build or launch our careers.”
Interview with Laurence Dumortier: Author of Love is in the Ether.