Recommended reading, viewing, and possibly eating.

First, the recipes: http://www.fatfreevegan.com/crockpot/crockpot.shtml

Then, the speed writing site: http://lab.drwicked.com/writeordie.html

Finally, all my recommended reading:
• A Writer's Space: Make Room to Dream, to Work, to Write by Eric Maisel (Motivation, Discipline Instruction)
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott (Instruction, Memoir)
• Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting Dynamic Characters and Effective Viewpoints by Nancy Kress (Technique Instruction)
• Description & Setting: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Believable World of People, Places, and Events by Ron Rozelle (Technique Instruction)
• Dialogue by Gloria Kempton (Technique Instruction)
• How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them--A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide by Howard Mittelmark, Sandra Newman (Technique Instruction)[Explicit]
• On Becoming a Novelist by John Gardner (Technique Instruction)
• On Writing by Stephen King (Instruction, Memoir)
• Plot & Structure: (Techniques And Exercises For Crafting A Plot That Grips Readers From Start To Finish) by James Scott Bell (Technique Instruction)
• Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose (Instruction)
• Revision And Self-Editing by James Scott Bell (Technique Instruction)
• The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life by Julia Cameron (Instruction, Memoir)
• The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression by Eric Maisel, Ph.D. (Creating Meaning Through Art)
• Toxic Criticism: Break the Cycle with Friends, Family, Coworkers and Yourself by Eric Maisel, Ph.D. (Handling Critique)
• Writer Mama: How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids by Christina Katz (Articles & Nonfiction Instruction, Time Management)
• Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg (Instruction, Memoir)
• Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity by Ray Bradbury (Instruction, Memoir)

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I found a website the other day while looking for worksheets for people to fill out (if they want!) at the write-ins, and in reading this lady's site, I found it to be kind of fun and helpful.

Check her out at: http://www.jennymeyerhoff.com/writers.html

At the top you can click on Advice or Worksheets. Her advice is nice, and the worksheets I think will be great help for those of us floundering through November with no clue where our stories are going.

But wait, NONE of us are going to be floundering without a clue, right? So we don't need no stinkin worksheets.

However, I will be bringing copies of them to all write-ins, just in case.

:)

For my part, I recommended listening to the Old Time Radio show Quiet, Please which you can find a list of downloadable shows here, just click on the description.

The other thing I didn't mention but may be helpful for some is Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules of Writing. You can find it here.

More as I think of it. Best advice I've got is this: write every day.

Here's a link to a 'discussion' of where ideas come from written by comic writer Warren Ellis, one of my personal heroes:

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2009/10/20/do-anything-021-by-warren-ellis/

The Do Anything columns are off the wall and interesting for the content and it's roundabout discussion. Mostly, they're about architecture (I think) relating to story structure and thinking about writing.

At least that's what I'm getting out of them.

I came across an interesting article today about character voice, I thought it might be handy for some of us who are struggling with distinguishing our characters from each other when they talk. Some really great suggestions here.

http://io9.com/5379280/all-your-characters-talk-the-same--and-theyre-not...

I'm a crazy Joss Whedon fan, so the Joss Whedon references tickled me to no end :)