3 Great Things: Grover, Believing, Best Of

Welcome to my first random act of occasional curating, where I use my blog to share those things that risk never being found again, by me (if I simply bookmark them). These are some of the links I find the time for, especially when work risks turning upside-down my usual smile, gleefully trampling it to the ground, and for good measure doing a little soul-sacrificing dance. I love most of what I do, but, really, some days the trick is to distract myself with something funny or clever, or helpful, before the trampling begins.

Enjoy.

1. The Art of Seducing Readers, According to Grover (Or, How To Write Page-Turners)

Time and again, you read of another calamity befalling your lovable narrator—and a calamity befalls or falls upon him on each and every page of the book—and although your heart breaks and you feel horribly complicit, you can’t resist. You want to know what happens so badly, you want so desperately for the monster at the end of the book to be revealed, that you defy Grover’s explicit and polite and entirely wise advice.

(What Every Fiction Writer Can Learn About Plot From That Lovable, Furry Old Grover by Bret Anthony Johnston in Glimmertrain)

2. The Believer finally believes in Tumbler.

3. the 99%’s Best of 2011: Our Most Popular Tips, Interviews & Think Pieces.