Around the Web: Best Posts on Writing I've Discovered This Week

 

I subscribe to and follow several authors, blogs, and writing sources throughout the week.

Each Friday, I include links to FIVE sources to improve your writing that I found useful.

Here are my offerings for this week.

Hope they inspire you to start writing

and continue writing! 

Chicken Soup for the Soul published multiple books each year with 100 stories in each book. That's a lot of opportunity to get your 1200 word inspirational story get published. I've been in them. Here's the link to their guidelines so maybe you can be in them, too. 

https://www.chickensoup.com/story-submissions/story-guidelines/

If you write for kids, here's a webinar that talks about marketing and spending your money wisely. It's only an hour long so you should get some good tips from it. https://writeforkids.org/blog/kidlitdistancingsocial76/

Here's a fun sounding 2 week writing challenge in May that prompts you to write, learn, and win prizes. And best of all there's no fee to register. Get motived with this challenge. https://www.autocrit.com/writing-challenge-2022-registration-page-v2

Here are some tips on how to cut corners in doing research for your plot whether its location or jobs the characters have. https://killzoneblog.com/2022/04/making-it-feel-real.html

Good tips here for writing flashbacks and backstory that won't drag your story. https://writerunboxed.com/2022/04/20/its-about-time-backstory-flashback-and-chronology/