http://www.sterlingediting.com Editing, mentoring and coaching for writers Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:24:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our weekly roundup of links we hope you'll find interesting and useful. Kate Monahan at Writer's Digest talks about breaking through the writing wall. Editor Alan Rinzler suggests writers keep a voice journal for character development. Amy Sterling Casil on why editors use form rejection letters (Hat tip to Charles Tan for the ... http://www.sterlingediting.com/written-on-the-internet-19/ To those arriving here from LambdaLiterary.org: Welcome! Take a look around, get to know us. Here's a repost from last year to get you started: “What is your motivation for starting Sterling Editing? You have successful writing and corporate careers ... why coach and edit others? I'm genuinely curious ... http://www.sterlingediting.com/welcome/ Our weekly roundup of links we hope you'll find interesting and useful. Salon.com's Laura Miller with a reader's advice to writers. What a four-year-old knows about writing emotion, from screenwriter John August. A book publicist talks about media publicity. Got a nonfiction book? Go get yourself a an ... http://www.sterlingediting.com/written-on-the-internet-18/ “"Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not ­counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free. -- Anne Enright, talking of writing ” http://www.sterlingediting.com/1668/ Our weekly roundup of links we hope you'll find interesting and useful. The Turkey City Lexicon is a terrific roundup of all the ways there are to write badly. If you're not a science fiction/fantasy writer, don't worry: with 60-plus writing traps, bad habits and story-killers on the list, every writer ... http://www.sterlingediting.com/written-on-the-internet-17/ A prospective client asked how on earth she could tell which of our editing services was right for her. There are so many kinds! she said. And she's right: there are as many kinds of editing as there are writers.  To make things even more confusing, every writer ... http://www.sterlingediting.com/so-many-kinds-of-edits/ Our weekly roundup of links we hope you'll find interesting and useful. From Follow the Reader, three excellent interviews with experts in marketing books on strategies, trends, and what authors can and should do to market and publicize themselves. There's a lot of terrific insight and advice here, and it's ... http://www.sterlingediting.com/written-on-the-internet-16/ Our weekly roundup of links we hope you'll find interesting and useful. The big news this week is the Amazon/Macmillan face-off that is, as of this writing, still in progress. In short: because Amazon and Macmillan failed to agree on the pricing of ebooks, Amazon pulled the "buy direct" links ... http://www.sterlingediting.com/written-on-the-internet-15/ “"A writer and nothing else...alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right. -- John K. Hutchens ” http://www.sterlingediting.com/renard-says/ Usually on Fridays we post a weekly roundup of links we hope you'll find interesting and useful. But today we have something a little different. Because sometimes writing is all about showing, not telling. If you are a writer who has not yet had your first professional working conversation with ... http://www.sterlingediting.com/the-writing-life/