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Resources:

• A big thank you to Suzanne Boles for tweeting this great resource: Freelance Writing Writer’s Guidelines.
• Last week, I told you to follow Elizabeth S. Craig, right? If you listened, you already know about the Writer’s Knowledge Base, the search engine for writers. She tweets links to the best content on writing and then adds them to this database.

Novel Writing:

• How much is too much character description? How much is too little? Janice Hardy at The Other Side of the Story answers this question in her post Tall, Dark & Handsome: How Much Do You Need to Describe Your Characters? 
• Here’s a post I found thanks to Write It Sideways. Roz Morris offers 3 Fixes to Make Your First Novel Fly, beginning with Hook Your Reader by the Head AND the Heart. Check this out along with the other two fixes on her blog, Nail Your Novel.

The Writing Biz:

• Jennifer Represents, a blog written by Jennifer Laughren, a literary agent who specializes in children’s and YA fiction, discusses when authors should discuss how long they’ve been trying to hook an agent, and who’s already rejected them. When to Keep Your Trap Shut? Almost Always.
• BubbleCow, another great resource for aspiring authors, lets you know that There Are Only Three Possible Reasons Why You Have Not Yet Been Published.