Blogs that made me stop in October 2013

Here are the blogs that made me stop and read all the way through to the end, this month (and in the last three days of September):

Artwork

http://taziobettin.deviantart.com/art/Artwork-Pack-1-403141207?ga_submit_new=10%253A1380232822&ga_type=edit&ga_changes=1&ga_recent=1: Artwork by Tazio Bettin - go check it out

Stories

http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2013/10/25/flash-fiction-challenge-the-subgenre-smash-and-grab/: responses should lead to stories you can read
http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2013/10/18/flash-fiction-challenge-random-song-title/: and this one
http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2013/10/11/flash-fiction-challenge-horror-in-three-sentences/: this one, too.

For Writers

http://kriswrites.com/2013/09/25/the-business-rusch-addendums-rights-grabs-agents-yet-again/: More business sense from Kristine Kathryn Rusch
http://www.brokenfrontier.com/so-you-want-to-publish-a-graphic-novel/: Yes, I know it's about the comic market and the challenges of publishing there, but the principles are similar and the lesson is interesting. Read, understand, apply, diversify.
http://gretavanderrol.net/?p=3287: Greta Van Der Rol on writing what you know.
http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2013/10/24/your-book-is-not-pepper-spray-that-you-must-fountain-into-my-eyes/: on how to play nice and not be a jerk of an author.
http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2013/10/08/welcome-to-nanowrimo-prep-school-word-nerds/: for NaNoWriMo
http://kriswrites.com/2013/10/16/the-business-rusch-carrots-and-sticks/: for the indie, or ex-trad author not used to not having deadlines - awesome.
http://kriswrites.com/2013/10/09/the-business-rusch-standards/: as is this.

Gaming News

http://jpchapleau.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/big-legacies-news-coming.html: News on the Neo-Exodus front
http://lpjd.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/good-news-better-news-situation-for.html: More on Neo-Exodus
http://keith-baker.com/phoenix-nine-deaths/: about a new game project he is working on

For Fun

http://kotaku.com/every-sci-fi-starship-ever-in-one-mindblowing-comparis-1391608737: starships on a comparison chart in one big fleet - awesome!
http://gizmodo.com/scientists-created-a-new-form-of-matter-and-its-like-a-1387420181/1391676580/@jesusdiaz: scientists work out something similar to lightsabers

Research

http://www.buzzfeed.com/steampunk/the-6-rules-of-steampunk-fashion-3n9d: Steampunk;
http://www.gdfalksen.com/post/20357409792/steampunk: more steampunk
http://io9.com/why-im-tired-of-seeing-nikola-tesla-in-science-fiction-1422935938: Tesla
http://io9.com/5127125/the-greatest-inventions-nikola-tesla-never-created: more Tesla
http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/making-nikola-tesla-a-saint-makes-us-all-dumber-1308034624: more on Tesla

Potential Story Fuel

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/zombie-apocalypse-drug-reaches-us-not-joke: on a nasty drug
http://io9.com/listen-to-what-our-ancestors-language-sounded-like-6-0-1403832049: a legend, a link to Archaeology, a book advertisement on humans surviving mass extinction, and an ancient-really ancient- language
http://archaeology.org/exclusives/articles/1302-proto-indo-european-schleichers-fable: more about the ancient language
http://archaeology.org/exclusives/articles/1302-proto-indo-european-schleichers-fable#art_page2: a fable in an ancient language.
http://news-hound.net/world-largest-tortoise-found-in-amazon-basin-800lb/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/24/offensive-words-_n_4144472.html: Word origins

Other

http://gretavanderrol.net/?p=3297: on life and loss and being thankful for what you have, and a farewell vale
http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2013/10/23/constructing-my-parachute-on-the-way-down/: another writer becomes the sole wage earner in his house :-)
http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2013/10/10/wuzza-wooza-brisbane-booza/: after visiting Australia
http://writeitforward.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/atlantis-the-bermuda-triangle-synthetic-battle-forms/: Bob Mayer