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…all the stuff that’s new on the blog? I’ve been favoring my Google Reader shared items. See the widget to the right? Click the “Read More” link at the bottom of the list to see all the stuff I’ve shared since I started using Google Reader as my RSS aggregator of choice.
The Last.fm list. Shows [...]

How to Write Successful Endings
How to Write Successful Endings
Dont let your fiction get tossed in the wastebasket because the ending “didnt quite work.” Follow Nancy Kress advice for choosing a successful ending based on the style of your work.
by Nancy Kress
The most-asked question when someone describes a novel, movie or short story to a friend [...]

Kiwi!
this is really really really good.

Spinal Tap Reunites for Live Earth To Fight Global Warming
Sweet Sweet Spinal Tap Love

http://ficlets.com/stories/1876
Add to this on ficlets.com, if you dare!
Kavin burst through the containment field, the hounds on his heels, close behind. They bayed and howled as they smelled his blood. The Gamez had been rough this year.
He pulled himself up onto the ledge of a nearby building, scraping more skin off his hands and knees in [...]

Glypho
Another shared writing space, with a longer word count limit. Might put novel stuff here.
Here’s one story, accepting contributions.

Also, maybe a way to jump start the damn novel, again. Here’s my first Ficlet:
http://ficlets.com/stories/920
ficlets - really cool project for writers
From Scalzi (who else?) comes a collaborative short fiction site for writers, called Ficlets:
What does ‘collaborative short fiction’ mean in this case? Simple: You, as a writer, post a very short (not more than 1,024 [...]

Sarah rode the bus up Minnesota Drive, towards downtown. Hands deep in her pockets, chill even in the warmth of the heated bus, she stared out the dirty scratched up window at the icy snow piles outside along the side of the road.
Suddenly, a native face appeared at the bus window. The woman’s eyes were [...]

See, I am trying to get back to the novel/story/whatever. So this is like that. A reminder, with bonus content:
Whatever: Writing Tips for Non-Writers Who Don’t Want to Work at Writing:
“Periods: When you’re writing down a thought and you’re at the end of that thought, put a period.
Commas: When you’re writing down a thought [...]

THe problem was, she thought, that rapists looked no different than any other of the scum outside or in.
Sara had been in corners of every dirty alley in Anchorage, it seemed. She sat in the university library, dressed as a student. She sat in the lobby of sleazy hotels, nice hotels, laundromats, everywhere she [...]