The Monday Post: Links for Readers and Writers

Inspired by a similar type of post found on Electric Literature‘s website, The Monday Post is a collection of articles for writers and readers as well as a sampling of interesting works and publications from across the internet. They may be old links or new links, but they’ll be ones that I find the most interesting or helpful. If there are any particular topics you’d like to read about, please feel free to suggest them in a comment on this post. In addition, each new month will feature a new and interesting quote from an established expert in the literary field.

Writers and readers may find additional links and featured writers in The Monday Post archive. Please follow my blog for writing prompts, commentary, reviews, and more!

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“How Mirror Characters Can Illustrate Literary Themes” via diyMFA

“Zoella’s Clockwork Novels: Fanfiction, Ghostwriters, and the Bizarre, Automated Future of Publishing” via Flavorwire

“How to Bring a Nonreader to a Bookstore” via B&N Reads

“Listen to Your Doubt-Guts” via The Lascaux Review

“Overcoming Judging Books by Their Characters” via Book Riot

“Beta Readers and You” via Matthew E Nordin

“How to write short stories” via The New Authors Fellowship

“NEW GENRES: The Worm in The Apple Tale” via Electric Literature

“Arthur Conan Doyle was the victim of a police conspiracy” via The Guardian

“Nine Tips for Finishing That Novel” via PowellsBooks.Blog

“Enough About Me” via The Atlantic

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Featured Writings:

Nonfiction:

“Sand Dollars” by Wendy Fontaine

“Lake Lot” by Kelsey Camacho

Poetry:

“Step 9” by Nicole Callihan

“Paradise” by Brook Edwards

Fiction:

“Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu

“Down in the Station” by Seth Sawyers

“Stone Animals” by Kelly Link

Books:

In the Laurels, Caught by Lee Ann Brown

Leave Your Body Behind by Sandra Doller

Literary Magazines and Journals:

So to Speak

Room Magazine

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Previous Posts on Mondays to do with Readings and Writings:

• March 16, 2015: Spacing and placing, like a simile, and glass ceiling smashing (among other things)
• March 9, 2015: nameless narration, the history of paying (or not paying) writers, and 10-minutes to success (among other things)
• March 2, 2015: can’t live without lit, dystopian dysfunctions, and the obscurest genre of them all (among other things)
• February 23, 2015: The answers on how to be a writer, bolstering your new year’s resolutions with books, and writing as a horror story (among other things)
• February 17, 2015: Critical critics, genre complexity, and love songs (among other things)
• February 9, 2015: Creation amidst chaos, foreign fiction foreign, and the data points on plot (among other things)
• February 2, 2015: Future predictor Dostoevsky, half-way readers, and favorite author help (among other things)
• January 26, 2015: Life by Lord Byron, the fiction of growing up, and destroying literary ignorance (among other things)
• January 19, 2015: Captivating writing, not-so-exciting plot structures, and reading myths (among other things)
• January 12, 2015: Monstrous envy, hipsters, and blind spots (among other things)

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