I love the internet. Without it, where would you find 30 blog posts by published authors about putting together a book from start to finish?

There’s so much information to consume. I wish I could touch the computer screen to my head and learn through osmosis. But since that’s not going to happen I’ll just have to read the posts like everyone else.

The tips are NaNoWriMo themed, but Nano is about writing a book in a month so I can’t imagine why these tips won’t work for writing a book period.

Scott Westerfeld & Justine Larbalestier’s Writing Tips:

#1 Dialog Spine

#2 The Zen of First (Zero) Drafts

#3 Dialog Spine Analysis

#4 Word Count is Not Everything

#6 Emergency Unstucking Techniques

#7 Stealing from Chandler

#8 Square Brackets

#9 Meta Documents

#10 Don’t skip the Tricky Bits

#11 Passages of Disbelief

#12 Turn the internet off

#13 Pace Charts

#14 Procrastination can be Your Friend

#15 Take a Day off

#16 Edit as You Go

#17 Make Writing a Habit

#18 Breaking With Stereotypes

#19 Read Out Loud

#20 Don’t Wait for the Muse to Strike

#21 Writers Re-Read

#22 Read Bad Books

#23 Change Your Brain

#24 Writing While White

#25 Read it Backwards

#26 Giving Thanks

#27 Word Clouds

#28 Take Care of Yourself

#29 Finish Everything

#30 Rewriting

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