Happy Saturday to you all! I hope your week has been fun and productive. I just picked up some crafting supplies and think I’ll take a break from writing and do that for a while today. What are you up to?

Here are some new articles I’ve posted this week on other sites:

• No Cost Ways to Nurture Your Spirit
• How Do You Know When to Call Someone a Friend?
• Midlife Daters Admit: What I Wish I Knew Then
• 5 Ways to Banish Self Doubt

Here are some writing links and news items I found of interest this week.

Social Media Today gives us a clue on “10 Ways to Get More Fans on Facebook.”

ProBlogger has an interesting post about “My 3-Step System for Finding Guest Post Opportunities.” This can be especially helpful if you’re doing a blog tour or want to promote your book.

Rachell Gardner has info on “Simultaneous Submissions” and whether you should query more than one agent at a time.

Mynx Writes has a post about “Plotter or Pantser? Discovering your NaNoWriMo style.”

Sweepy Jean asks, “What is the True Nature of Inspiration?”

Copyblogger has some good info here: “8 More Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers.”

Want to get some bookmarks made? I see all kind of rotten ones (I’m sorry, I do!) but I saw a wonderful example this week that I wanted to share from Megan DiMaria‘s blog.

The Smart Passive Income blog has some good info on “How Do You Know When It’s Time To Move On?” Readers are responding to this and giving some very helpful info.

I enjoyed this one at Daily Blog Tips, “Trivia: How reCAPTCHA Works.”

A helpful one from Copyblogger, “67 Elegant, Effective and FREE Website Graphics for Serious Online Publishers.”

“Grisham talks ambulance chasers, eBooks” on CNN.

Good reminders here: “12 Quick Tips To Search Google Like An Expert.”

Info on Virtual Book/Blog Tours:

• Virtual Book Tours
• My Virtual Book tour Secrets!
• How to Organize a Virtual Book Tour

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Loved this quote from Ray Bradbury:

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~Ray Bradbury

The reason I like this quote is because writing is really a balance. You have to believe in your work strongly, but you also have to be willing to look at the reality. Is your writing strong enough to be published? Will it find an audience? Is your story truly unique or just plain too complicated to be understood?

Being “drunk” on writing means that you will keep plugging along, despite the naysayers. You will listen to great feedback and take a realistic look at your work, but you will also keep going.

Additional Writing Resources:

• Make Money From Home – Real Jobs You Can Do by Telecommuting
• Create Multiple Articles from Just One
• How to Write Your Own Ebook in 7 Days
• Freelance Writing Jobs