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Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award 2013 - $50,000

Amazon's Breakthrough Novel Award Contest just broke through a ceiling of sorts. This year, instead of two $15k prizes, a grand winner will take home a $50,000 advance and a publishing contract. Want to know how to enter? Click here for details.

Kurt Vonnegut on How to Write a Short Story (Creative Writing 101)

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

Click on the link below to see how kitties can help you get your daily writing done

Written? Kitten!

Short post because I gotta get back to my words, and the pictures of cute kitties. =^..^=

Barry Eisler on the craft of writing

Solid info on how to get your writing work done from a Barry Eisler interview from WritingRoom.com.

Using Scrivener with other online resources

Literature & Latte announced on December 16, 2011 that an app for Scrivener is in the works. Hopefully this will be available in 2012. I found the following video by Nick Thacker discussing how he uses Evernote and Scrivener in his novel writing process.



 
Using Scrivener and Evernote to Write Your Novel from Nick Thacker on Vimeo.
How you you extend your Scrivener with online storage and notetaking?