Survival

An expanding page of links for the writer who wants to survive.

When I Was Uninvited… Mari Mutsuki Mockett via The Nervous Breakdown
DIY Book Tour… Allison Amend via Glimmer Train
Expectations… Candace Haven via Genreality
Finish Your Novel… Timothy Hallinan via his site
The Five Laws of Making a Story Complicated Without Creating an Ungodly Mess… Charlie Jane Anders, via io9.com
How I Query Literary Agents… Kelly Wittmann via Five Agents and a Funeral
The 2010 Pushcart Prize Rankings… Cliff Garstang via Perpetual Folly
Ranking of Literary Journals… John Matthew Fox via BookFox
Had We But Sleep Enough and Time… Zoe Zolbrod via The Nervous Breakdown
How to Steal Like an Artist… Austin Kleon via his blog.
The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned… Steven Pressfield via Do The Work
Some of the Ways I Decide Where to Submit My Work… Rachel Swirsky via Ecstatic Days
11 Questions for Crafting A Pitch… Rachelle Gardner, via her blog
25 Ways to Fuck With Your Characters… Chuck Wendig, via his blog
So You Want to Write Short Stories… Kari Lund-Teigen via Tumblr.

Story Elements

A list of short stories that display particular elements in some kind of exemplary way…with an emphasis on structure.

“Stone Mattress,” Margaret Atwood. In The New Yorker. (Also a satisfying revenge tale.)

“The Island,” Shirley Jackson. In Come Along With Me.

“Cell One,” Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie. In The Thing Around Your Neck.

“Jumping Monkey Hill,” Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie. In The Thing Around Your Neck.