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Publishing and the Craft of Writing ...

writeforapples.com (My blog! For author, agent, editor interviews.)
Book Pulblishing Paths - Jane Friedman
kidlit.com
The Purple Crayon 
Jancie Hardy's Fiction University
​Tara Lazar's blog (Picture book focus)

Planning and Plotting ...

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Know your characters wound and how it affects his/her outlook.
​Whenever I'm stuck, I revisit this organizer.
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You can plot a story, revise a story, or analyze a story with Blake Snyder's Beat Sheet. SAVE THE CAT is for script writing, but authors use it for novels as well. Click here for the beat sheet as a Word doc and here for an excel file that converts script page numbers to novel page numbers.

To learn more about STC and what each beat means, check out these videos that break them down.

Save the Cat Moments 6:40
Monsters Inc 16:04
Back to the Future 9:55
​Annie 9:57

Goal Setting ...

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A simple monthly goal chart to note things that need to get done. I usually save the last box for things I want to get to next (or just eventually). 

Tip: Put it in a glass frame and you can use a dry erase marker! Might as well be eco-friendly too. :)

*Please note that the website I got this from is no longer up, but it was a "freebie" that I downloaded from them.
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