Nathan Bransford - The Forums

On how Twitter is changing the way I (want to) speak:

http://hillaryjacques.blogspot.com/2010 ... speak.html

Why I'm thankful for NaNo and my bud Regan (ReganLeigh):

http://www.amandaplavich.com/2010/11/15 ... -for-nano/

In which I summarize my progress as a writer, fret a bit, and look forward future me. (It's not quite as narcissistic as it sounds)

http://hillaryjacques.blogspot.com/2010 ... -here.html

My first Teaser Tuesday in ages:

http://www.amandaplavich.com/2010/11/16 ... uesday-14/

I re-posted (with some current insights) an old post on characters. Link is after the signature.

P.S. I do hope to be around a lot more soon. School just takes over all my time.

A post on deciding on whether and how much romance, sex, and violence to include in fiction...

http://urbanpsychopomp.blogspot.com/201 ... lence.html

In light of the film about to be released, the top 10 reasons that Professor Severus Snape is the most sympathetic villain ever written (yes I'm aware that Gollum rules, let me make my point here people):

http://theqqqe.blogspot.com/2010/11/mos ... -ever.html

I make mistakes a lot, and I know there are plenty of other people who do the same thing. I just wrote a post about how we can use the lessons we learned to improve the characters we write: http://gilesth.blogspot.com/2010/11/mistakes.html

On why I don't like adverbs, adjectives, said bookisms, or creative punctuation...

Wait, let me put my helmet on. Okay.

http://urbanpsychopomp.blogspot.com/201 ... fects.html

About The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. What a great book!

What Motivates You?

New additions to interview guest list for December: Nelson DeMille and Vince Flynn

*** Bryan "Ink" Russell's perfect two sentence pitch ***

A blog quicky in praise of an extremely helpful post on writing sins from The Bookshelf Muse:

http://urbanpsychopomp.blogspot.com/201 ... -muse.html

On writer burnout. What do you do when the love (for the ms) is gone?

http://hillaryjacques.blogspot.com/2010 ... -gone.html

A post on world-building in general and world-building in urban fantasy...

http://urbanpsychopomp.blogspot.com/201 ... ntasy.html

A small handful of things I'm looking forward to: http://hillaryjacques.blogspot.com/2010 ... rward.html