A big welcome if you’re here for the first time courtesy of The Creative Penn, who hosted me for a podcast this week on travel writing and writer’s residencies. You’re just in time for the weekly writers’ roundup, a collection of my favorite links, which runs each Friday.
Since returning from my writer’s residency, where I didn’t have an Internet connection in my studio, I’ve spent less time on Twitter. I still think the social networking tool is incredibly useful, but I realized while I was away that spending so much time online was taking away from my writing.
Unfortunately, less time in the Twittersphere means fewer links for my roundup. But we have to prioritize, right?
- Ami at Writing: My Life is doing NaNoWriMo this November. Any of y’all challenging yourself to write a novel in a month? (Not me. Gotta focus on the book.)
- No women in Publishers Weekly’s top 10 books of 2009? From the Christian Science Monitor’s books blog.
- Author Liz Palmer has a section on her Web site for writers that’s worth checking out.
- Literary agent Rachelle Gardner explains why backstory doesn’t work at the beginning of a story.
- Shack’s Comings and Goings offers a Sunday Wash-Up with links from the week — another writing blog to add to your RSS feed.
I’ve got a Q&A scheduled here for Monday that you won’t want to miss — See you then!
Filed under: Twitter, Writers' roundup | Tagged: author, NaNoWriMo |
The Traveling Writer 
Hi Alexis,
I went over and listened to the podcast. That is quite a story! I love podcasts. They always remind me that a person is real, and not just so many words on a computer screen.
Oh, and I Love the image of you on a camel in Timbuktu of all places. What a hoot!
Cheers
George
Hey George — Thanks for listening! It can be fun to hear a person’s voice after seeing so many of their words. Oh, and riding a camel? Uncomfortable!!
As always, thanks for the great links, Alexis.
Karen
More weekend reading! Thanks for sharing those links 🙂 I need to get into listening to more podcasts!
Hi Alexis,
Many thanks for including my Wash-Up in your Writer’s Roundup. (Thinks – might return the favour.)
Hmm, positioned just below Rachelle Gardner another honour, can it get any better?
Thanks again for the mention.
PS, your RSS just gain another subscriber.
The links all sound interesting, but the first one I want to read is No Women in Publishers Weekly’s top ten books of 2009. That just can’t be true…can it!?!
You have been very busy, good on you!
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