Jeff Vandermeer talks about writing sex scenes.

Cecilia Tan asks if people are interested in presenting at Frolicon.

Sarah Frantz puts out a call for applications for positions with the Journal of Popular Romance Studies.

Writespace is apparently pretty nifty for those of you who are on Windows. (Me, I’m in love with Scrivener.)

Karen Knows Best posts about possible money issues at Ellora’s Cave.

A wordcount to page estimator that helps writers estimate word/page count based on font size and explains how different word/page counts are used.

A quick list of the 20 Master Plots from Ronald B Tobias’ book.

The Power Play Academy, an online educational institution committed to providing e-Learning courses in a variety of kinks.

Querying is something that’s on my mind a lot lately, so I’ve marked this entry on Deadline Dames, which gives a brief look into how the system works. And two posts on Janet Reid’s blog.

A list of eleven books on writing and a reminder not to spend all your time reading them.

Why to ditch your prologue.

**Alison Tyler of Pretty Things Press gives a breakdown of where all that money goes from the sale of a book.

**Want to write for Harlequin? Here’s your chance.

**Editorial Anonymous is putting together a publishing dictionary with lots of useful terms.

**While I don’t think it’s a good idea to send the straight output from this, there is apparently a tool in Word to help with summaries. You could use that as a starting point the next time you’re trying to write a synopsis for your new story.

**A huge, but easy to use list of common errors in English.

**Author!Author! has a series on how to get good feedback on your writing.

**Ira Glass is an amazing storyteller. I’ve seen him speak in person (and I have a dollar bill he gave me, signed by him) and I was thrilled to see that some of his presentations are now available online. This one is about hanging in there.

**The fiction writers’ guide to psychology.

**Ten methods of discipline for writers.

Toni Andrews, at Deadline Dames, writes about using SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) charts to help plan your writing career.

Charlene Teglia gives a list of ten reasons to write a story, even when you feel like it’s not worthwhile.

Emma Wayne Porter of Lyrical Press is interviewed at 500 Words on Words, and talks about e-publishing.

Mark Del Franco, at Fangs Fur & Fey, writes about how important it is to have a good copyeditor look at your work.

Pickled Cupid (usually a humor site) reminds authors to file a Form-1099-MISC for their royalties.

J.D. Rhoades, at Murderati, writes about how the latest promo fads might not be worthwhile.

Josh Lanyon, at Loose Ends, writes about what to do with bad reviews, and good ones, too.

Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, at Book View Cafe, writes about the dangers of using a thesaurus.

Joe Nassise, at Genreality, posts about how to write book proposals.

Judy Jenner, at The Urban Muse, posts about how to choose a freelance partner. This also seems to be a good set of rules to use in choosing a critique partner, writing partner, or anyone else you depend on in business.

Dana Marie Bell, at The Samhellion, posts about timelines, something that is very topical for me right now, as I struggle with the realization that my novella is turning into a novel.

Janet Reid talks about paying attention to font (specifically Courier versus Times New Roman) in queries.

EditTorrent talks about why to leave out the boring parts of the conversation in your fiction.

ErosBlog has a post about what prostate milking feels like.

Lifehacker lets us know about TinyChat, which generates disposable TinyURL chatrooms. This seems useful for authors wanting to set up a chat with readers, for interviews, and for working together with other writers.

Lifehacker also posts about creating color palettes from images, which is handy if you’re making your own bookmarks from book cover images, etc.

Sophie Masson, at Writer Unboxed, posts about sticking to the plot.

Therese Walsh, at Writer Unboxed, talks about being flexible with your outlines.

Marg McAlister, at Writing4Success, warns writers not to muck up the pacing.

Kathleen Bolton, at Writer Unboxed, gives a review of the three-act structure for fiction.

Daily Writing Tips gives a quick and dirty list of retronyms that might be helpful for authors writing historicals.

Writers Weekly gives the top eleven signs that a POD service is charging too much.