Happy Friday, SE Readers. Can you believe it’s already September? There’s an old Steve Miller song that talks about time slipping into the future and its so true. However, its time for another round of curated content – some of the best articles we SE authors have found from around the web this week. And if you haven’t checked out this weeks SE content be sure to read 5 Tips to Use Scrivener’s Layout Manager to Guide Your Writing by P. H. and Craig’s post on Guesting and Hosting.
And now for this week’s links.
- Characterization Tips (what to avoid, where to focus)
- World Building (3 tips)
- Character and Plot (why characters need to make choices, and what constitutes a good choice)
- Horror Stories (5 tips)
- Book Marketing (437 tips)
- POV (third person/close—two examples)
- Writing Humor (tips from the incomparable Erma Bombeck)
- Psychology and Writing, Part 1 (9 case studies)
- Psychology and Writing, Part 2 (more case studies and applications in fiction)
- Prologues (3 ways they work, 3 ways they don’t)
- Dressing Your Characters (clothing as character development and world building)
- Book Promo (how one author hit the USA Today Bestsellers List 3 times)
- Creating Conflict (5 ways)
Story Empire 
Another treasure trove! And the marketing tips link is my first visit 🙂
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With all of us contributing each week, I always find something useful. Glad you do too, Julie!
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Thank you Joan for this post and all the links. I already checked a couple but that one with Marketing tips is SUPER!
Happy Friday everyone!.
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Always thankful for your support, Carmen and glad you find the links useful. Happy Friday (and weekend) to you!
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Thank you for another fabulous share, Joan! Happy Friday to all! 🙂
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Happy Friday to you, Natalie!
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Reblogged this on Archer's Aim and commented:
Check out these links to posts we’ve been reading this week over at Story Empire!
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Thanks for the reblog, P.H.
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You bet!
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Thank you, Joan. I save all of these links to my Author Board on Pinterest so I can refer back to them often!
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Oh, that’s a good idea, Jan! Thanks for stopping by today.
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Really good stuff this time gang.
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Yeah, some pretty good links this week.
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Reblogged this on Author Don Massenzio and commented:
Check out this great post from the Story Empire with links to curated writing content
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Thanks for the re-blog, Don!
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You’re welcome.
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Reblogged this on anita dawes and jaye marie.
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Thanks for the reblog!
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Happy Friday, Joan. Thank you for this post and all the super links. I particularly enjoyed the one Writing Humour.
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Glad you find them useful, Robbie!
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