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3 Ways to Get Your Story Unstuck

Believe it or not, even LB, our boss, agrees with what follows, even if it is from Writers Digest:

 by Brian Klems (Writers Digest)

It will happen eventually—that moment when you realize you’re bogged down in the muck of your story. You don’t know where to go next or what the character should do. The seed of doubt sprouts then, unless you’re careful, will take root and bloom into full-on writer’s block. Here are suggestions on how to stop it—and make your story even stronger in the process.

1. Give your readers what they want, but not what they expect. read article

ALL SUPERHEROES MUST DIE

Is this a real trailer for a real film? Cuz we’re dying to see it if that’s so:

See, that’s a pun. “All Superheroes Must Die,” “We’re dying to see it…” Okay, nevermind: read article

Simon & Schuster Opens Self-Publishing Service

Is this really what we think it is? Cuz no matter how you spin it, this looks to us like a big-time Old Media company working like mad to take the “self” out of self-publishing:

 by Jason Boog (GalleyCat)

Simon & Schuster has created  Archway Publishing to help writers self-publish fiction, nonfiction, business and children’s books.

They will run the new service with help from Author Solutions, the self-publishing company acquired by Pearson for $116 million in July. read article

What People Mean When They Say “Bad Writing”

There’s a difference between “good writing” and a “good book” or “good script.” Nathan Bransford gets it:

by Nathan Bransford

One thing about my Fifty Shades of Grey  post that inspired some mild controversy was my insistence that it’s not that badly written. read article

Kathy Sees Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2

In which there was a whole lotta this:

and a tremendous amount of this: read article