Saturday Good Reads

I follow a lot of writers’ blogs, and so it’s no surprise that posts about writing will often show up here. Novelist (and singer) Josh Ritter talks about the importance of editing. L.L. Barkat cites six things your writing needs to wow readers. Athol Dickson (one of my favorite novelists) explains why he will not sell his novel. And writer Travis Thrasher isn’t quite ready to give up on traditional publishing yet. It was a good week on the web.

Prose

“Of Two-Way Streets” by Jake Lee at Very Much Later.

“New Marriage Technology” by Chris Fabry at The Fabry Log.

“Seeing Red: To Write is to Edit” by Josh Ritter for The Wall Street Journal.

“Resolving to choose: Either/Or” by Billy Coffey at What I Learned Today.

“Let somebody else do it” by Jason Stayszsen at Connecting to Impact.


"Six Good Things Your Writing Must Have to Wow Readers" by L.L. Barkat at Seedlings in Stone.

“My daughter’s favorite holiday” by Elizabeth Young for Viewshound.

“Christmas Comes But Six Months a Year” by Matt Appling at The Church of No People.

“And keep fighting” by Kelly Sauer.

“Past, Present, Future” by Erin Kilmer at Together for Good. 

“Boneyard Captain” by Doug Spurling at Spurling Silver. 

“The kindest thing I can do” by Louise Gallagher at Recover Your Joy. 

“Why I Will Not Sell My Novel” by Athol Dickson for Novel Rocket. 

“If you don’t likethe way I drive, stay off the sidewalk” by Kathy Robbins at robinwrites. 

“Godlypersecution” by Jason Vana. 

“10 Reasons I’m Not Giving Up on TraditionalPublishing” by Travis Thrasher at The Journey is Everything.

Poetry

“Never Roses” by D.C. Lutz at From the Middle.

“Donald Davie” by D.S. Martin at Kingdom Poets.

“On building” by Claudia Schoenfeld at Jaywalking the Moon.

“Honoring hero” and “I found a dream” by B.K. McKenzie at Signed…BKM. 

“Them, Us. Not Me. Not You” by Louise Gallagher at Recover Your Joy. 

“Snow and Ice” by Maureen Doallas at Writing Without Paper. 

“Babes in the Woods” by M.J. Duggan. 

“Only Him” by Karin Fendick at Flickers of a Faithful Firefly.

Paintings and Photographs

“Water Water Everywhere” and “HCF Challenge” by Susan Etole at Just…A Moment.

“The meaning of witness” by Claire Burge.

“Taking a jaundiced view” by J Of India at Neither Use Nor Ornament.

“Somethin” by Nancy Rosback at A Little Somethin’.

“Fall Waters” by Tim Good at Photography by Tiwago. 

“What the Dawn Brought” by Kelly Sauer.

Videos

“Lamentation of the Old Pensioner” by William Butler Yeats, read by Tom O’Bedlam at Spoken Verse.

“Hyperactive e.e.cummings” via Maureen Doallas at Writing Without Paper.

Photograph: Rain on Window by David Wagner via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.