Helpful Links
Each month, I like to share writing, reading, and productivity resources.
About productivity: What productivity style are you? Here are descriptions of four types along with the tools that might best help you: The Four Types of Productivity Styles. (I'm a "planner.")
For writers: Why try NaNoWriMo? Some thoughts from a few years ago that still hold true.
For readers: Why You Should Surround Yourself With More Books Than You'll Ever Have Time to Read (As if I need this encouragement....)
About productivity: What productivity style are you? Here are descriptions of four types along with the tools that might best help you: The Four Types of Productivity Styles. (I'm a "planner.")
For writers: Why try NaNoWriMo? Some thoughts from a few years ago that still hold true.
For readers: Why You Should Surround Yourself With More Books Than You'll Ever Have Time to Read (As if I need this encouragement....)
IWSG Blog Hop
Every month, the Insecure Writers Support Group poses an optional question that members can answer in their blog posts. Special thanks to Alex Cavanaugh for founding IWSG, and to this month’s helpful blog hop co-hosts: Sadira Stone, Patricia Josephine, Lisa Buie-Collard, Erika Beebe, and C. Lee McKenzie!
This month's question:
What's the strangest thing you've ever googled in researching a story?
What's the strangest thing you've ever googled in researching a story?
In the past few months, my research has led me to search about various types of ghosts, an American castle as a possible setting, and decades-old arson fires in Hoboken. I’m not sure any of that counts as “strange,” but it does make for an interesting browser history.
One of my favorite tools to store research images, by the way, is the “secret” board option on Pinterest. If I look for castle photos, for example, I save them on a hidden board until the story makes it out into the world. (I don’t share research as I go along because of too many false starts and changes as the work progresses.) Here’s an example of a board that was initially secret for Black Flowers, White Lies that I made public and added to over time.
One of my favorite tools to store research images, by the way, is the “secret” board option on Pinterest. If I look for castle photos, for example, I save them on a hidden board until the story makes it out into the world. (I don’t share research as I go along because of too many false starts and changes as the work progresses.) Here’s an example of a board that was initially secret for Black Flowers, White Lies that I made public and added to over time.
Writer friends, are you participating in NaNoWriMo19?
Why or why not?
Why or why not?
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