My Library

I bought No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days by Chris Baty because I was interested in ideas to jump start my writing, to move a couple of book ideas off the drawingboard and into the pages of a word processor. I did not expect to finish a novel in 30 days, but I was hoping a book with that ambitious a title would help me move past «I have an idea based on a cast of quirky characters» to «I have a solid plot with a delightfully well fleshed out cast of quirky characters» in a month or so and in a year or so I might have «I have a great first draft of a gripping novel with an ambitious, suspenseful plot full of delightfully quirky well fleshed out characters.» Unfortunately, though it's a good book, No Plot? No Problem is not the book to help me (or anyone) do that.

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I'm pleased to announce a new addition to My Library, the Periodicals Collection. This collection will consist of reviews of periodical publications that I read occasionally, subscribe to or in some cases am reading for the first time and want to share. For our purposes here, periodicals may include magazines, newspapers, newsletters, journals, zines, ezines, multimedia periodicals and online periodical publications. I'll be getting things started momentarily with a quick overview of the premier issue of a publication I picked up yesterday at Booksamillion, Good.