I feel like I learn something new everyday. It really pays to do your research. To see what others have to say about writing. I've stumbled across some amazing blogs during my searching. Some I've mentioned here before. The Other Side of the Story with Janice Hardy, The Book Shelf Muse, and Janet Reid, Literary Agent. All three provide a lot of good information for beginning and querying authors.
Take today for example. I stumbled on Janice Hardy's weak area words. It's a list of words that can signal telling or info dump in writing. I love it and read it here. She describes them as red flag words in another entry. On The Book Shelf Muse, there are so many helpful ways of describing characters and feelings. There's even an Emotional Thesaurus. Check that out here. Finally, Janet Reid is every querying author's best friend. She gives wonderful tips on that as the Query Shark and answers questions on her Janet Reid, Literary Agent blog. I love her wit and sense of humor. As aspiring authors, we have to learn to laugh at ourselves and with each other.
Moral of the blog entry is this: keep learning. You never know too much or enough. Now, happy research!
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