Blogs that made me stop: Week 2 September 2012

Some of you know that I read a lot of blogs; it’s why I’ve decided to go indie rather than follow the traditional route to publishing. Anyway, even though the decision’s been made, I still read the blogs. Sometimes I even stop and read them slowly instead of skipping over them. Here are the entries that have made me stop and take a second look this week:

•  Susan Kiernan-Lewis’s blog about writing habits of some famous writers (http://susankiernanlewis.com/2012/09/05/daily-creative-habits-of-the-rich-and-famous/);
• Susan Kiernan-Lewis’s blog post about how changes she made to one of her books helped it to sell, and the role of social media (http://susankiernanlewis.com/2012/09/05/daily-creative-habits-of-the-rich-and-famous/);
• The Galaxy Express blog had a steampunk-type adventure romance cover that caught my eye, so I stopped. Here’s the link: http://www.thegalaxyexpress.net/2012/09/exclusive-steampunk-romance-cover.html
• The Next Web on how to price your services as a freelancer: http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2012/09/08/freelancing-pricing-services/
• The Other Side of the Story a constructive critique on story openings. I like this as a learning tool. Go to: http://blog.janicehardy.com/2012/09/real-life-diagnostics-is-this-opening.html
• The Other Side of the Story on revision: http://blog.janicehardy.com/2012/09/guest-author-alex-hughes-how-to-revise.html
• The Word, The Word: A writer, a broken coffee cup, grief and grooving on, how could I not be sucked into the story? The coffee cup’s replacement: http://www.alanbaxteronline.com/ongoing-mugging/
• Tracy Hickman: showing the value of an intriguing opening be it blog, novel or short story: http://www.trhickman.com/2012/08/29/dragoncon-slayers/;
• Walt Shiel moves parts of his blog: http://waltshiel.com/2012/08/26/making-it-easy-were-moving/;
• Walt Shiel on Google’s Fair Use policies: http://waltshiel.com/2012/07/30/fair-use-a-la-google/;
• Walt Shiel on starting a business: http://waltshiel.com/2012/07/27/what-it-takes-to-start-a-busines/
• Walt Shiel’s new blog on writing: http://fiverainbows.com/5rainbows/; and
• WOW – Women on Writing where Karen Cioffi talks about creating an e-book: http://muffin.wow-womenonwriting.com/2012/09/why-you-should-create-ebook-and-6-basic.html.