Top Posts of 2009

I’ve taken a look at my statistics and here’s the top posts on Fiction Notes for 2009, in order of popularity. Five of these are the first page of a series of posts on a certain topic. The other five are individual posts.

1. Novel Writing. 30 Days to a Stronger Novel. 30 one-minute creative writing tips to improve your novel. After the First Draft is the Ebook version of this post. If you’ve just finished NaNoWriMo, this is for you!



2. Book Trailers. 43 Book Trailer Sites to Inspire, Instruct and Share. More information about book trailers for novels, for high school students, for kids and trailers in general than you really want to know.
3. Characterization. 15 Days to Stronger Characters Character description, character development, stronger characterization, names and more.
4. Revising a Novel. Novel Metamorphosis: Uncommon Ways to Revise This novel writing and revising workbook is based on my Novel Revision Retreats and includes many ways to rethink, rework and rewrite your novel.
5. Writing Picture Books. 30 Days to a Stronger Picture Book. Improve your children’s picture book in just 30 days. Creative writing tips, plot, characters, pacing and more. How to Write A Children’s Picture Book is the Ebook version of this series.
6. Characterization. Villains Don’t Always Wear Black. This 3-part series talks about characterization of villains: how to describe the characters, names, and more.
7. The Writing Life. One of the first posts I wrote on this blog continues to be popular: Hope Helps You Through The Writing Process. This five part series on the psychology of the creative writing process, especially revising, is one of my favorites I’ve written.
8. Creative Writing. 4 Times to Stop Revising. Do you do endless revisions on your novel or picture book? How do you know when you’re done?
9. Writing tips & techniques. Flashbacks Can Deepen Stories. This in-depth discussion of flashbacks discusses when, where and why to include a flashback.
10. Character Description. How to Create Whacky, Interesting, Character Descriptions that Stick With a Reader. Now this one was just plain fun.

Related posts:

1. After the First Draft
2. 15 Days to Stronger Characters
3. Problems in 2009?
4. 2009 Children’s Writer’s & Illustrator’s Market
5. 2009 Arkansas SCBWI

Revise with confidence.