{"id":23154,"date":"2014-04-22T18:28:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T22:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=23154"},"modified":"2014-06-03T12:08:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T16:08:56","slug":"now-available-500-ways-to-write-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2014\/04\/22\/now-available-500-ways-to-write-harder\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Available: 500 Ways To Write Harder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"500 Ways To Write Harder: Coming Soon by Chuck Wendig, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/gFtb\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3699\/12547593533_0cb13b0662_b.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"500 Ways To Write Harder: Coming Soon\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My newest e-book writing release is now available.<\/p>\n<p>You have a handful of ways to buy this, were you so inclined.<\/p>\n<p>First: <a title=\"500 Ways To Write Harder: Amazon, $2.99.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00JV8CDDO?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=213733&amp;creative=393177&amp;creativeASIN=B00JV8CDDO&amp;linkCode=shr&amp;tag=terriblemin0b-20\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Amazon<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, $2.99.<\/p>\n<p>Second: direct from me using this button (<a title=\"http:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/gFtb\" href=\"http:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/gFtb\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>or link<\/strong><\/span><\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Third: as part of a seven-book, $20 bundle using\u00a0<em>this<\/em> button (<a title=\"http:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/qUjO\" href=\"http:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/qUjO\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>or link<\/strong><\/span><\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally: <a title=\"B&amp;N: 500 Ways to Write Harder\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/500-ways-to-write-harder-chuck-wendig\/1119289892?ean=2940149606429\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>B&amp;N<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, $2.99.<\/p>\n<h2>Book Description<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Chuck Wendig&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Confessions of a Freelance Penmonkey<\/em>\u00a0is full of the kind of writing advice I wish I&#8217;d gotten in school. Practical, brutally honest, and done with the kind of humor that will make it stick in your brain. Whether you&#8217;re a veteran writer or new to the craft, you&#8217;ll find something useful in here. Plus he says \u2018fuck\u2019 a lot, so, you know, there&#8217;s that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212; Stephen Blackmoore, author of\u00a0<a title=\"DEAD THINGS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00AVA4NPM?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=213733&amp;creative=393177&amp;creativeASIN=B00AVA4NPM&amp;linkCode=shr&amp;tag=terriblemin0b-20&amp;qid=1398184369&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=dead+things\"><strong>Dead Things<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>500 Ways To Write Harder\u00a0<\/strong>aims to deliver a volley of micro-burst idea bombs and advisory missiles straight to your frontal penmonkey cortex. Want to learn more about writing, storytelling, publishing, and living the creative life? This book contains a high-voltage dose of information about outlining, plot twists, writer&#8217;s block, antagonists, writing conferences, self-publishing, and more.<\/p>\n<p>All this, straight from the sticky blog pages of\u00a0<strong>terribleminds.com<\/strong>, one of the 101 Best Websites for Writers (as named by Writer&#8217;s Digest).<\/p>\n<p>This book contains the following chapters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>25 Bad Writer Behaviors<\/li>\n<li>25 Hard Truths About Writing &amp; Publishing<\/li>\n<li>25 Steps To Becoming A Self-Published Author<\/li>\n<li>25 Steps To Edit The Unmerciful Suck Out Of Your Story<\/li>\n<li>25 Things To Do Before You Start Your Novel<\/li>\n<li>25 Things You Should Know About Antagonists<\/li>\n<li>25 Things You Should Know About Conventions &amp; Conferences<\/li>\n<li>25 Things You Should Know About Metaphor<\/li>\n<li>25 Things You Should Know About Narrative Point-of-View<\/li>\n<li>25 Things You Should Know About Outlining<\/li>\n<li>25 Things You Should Know About Worldbuilding<\/li>\n<li>25 Things You Should Know About Young Adult Fiction<\/li>\n<li>25 Things Writers Should Beware<\/li>\n<li>25 Things Writers Should Know About Traveling<\/li>\n<li>25 Turns, Pivots and Twists To Complicate Your Story<\/li>\n<li>25 Ways To Be A Happy Writer<\/li>\n<li>25 Ways To Get Your Authorial Groove Back<\/li>\n<li>25 Ways To Survive As A Creative Person<\/li>\n<li>25 Ways To Unstick A Stuck Story<\/li>\n<li>25 Writer Resolutions<\/li>\n<li>Appendix: 50 Rantypants Snidbits Of Writing And Storytelling Advice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My newest e-book writing release is now available. You have a handful of ways to buy this, were you so inclined. First: Amazon, $2.99. Second: direct from me using this button (or link): &nbsp; Third: as part of a seven-book, $20 bundle using\u00a0this button (or link): &nbsp; Finally: B&amp;N, $2.99. Book Description &#8220;Chuck Wendig&#8217;s\u00a0Confessions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-61s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23154"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23257,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23154\/revisions\/23257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}