Blogs that made me stop in October 2013

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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

Location: Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

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