Current links for writers - August 2 - Manic Monday

Writing Nowadays–Opening Patterns by Steven Harper Piziks at Book View Cafe

Creating Lifelike Characters at Mystery Writing is Murder

Medical Mondays: Meet Phineas Gage by Lydia Kang at The Word is My Oyster

Mental Health Monday–Fight or Flight? by L. Diamond at Diamond–Yup, Like the Stone

Q&A: Bipolar Disorder and Sociopathy by Carolyn Kaufman at Archetype Writing Blog

Tricks of the Trade: Punctuation at The Blood-Red Pencil - shortcuts for MS Word

Targeting Niche Markets by K.M. Weiland at AuthorCulture

Why You (Still) Want an Agent at Pimp My Novel

Monday, Monday--So Good to Me. Er, to You! at Coffey. Tea. And Literary. - GREAT query advice & a contest, too!

Guest Post-Cynthia Watson: Premature Querying at QueryTracker

An Offer From a Small Publisher at BookEnds

The Substantive or Content Edit at The Roving Editor

Flood of Books at Stephen Parrish - about a family who lost all their books in a recent flood. Would you like to help? Send them books or a book-gift card.

Reasons Why Your Non-Writer Friends Think You're Crazy by Veronica Roth via Adventures In Writing

CONTEST

Contest Entry Form at * Fiction Groupie * - Roni & Julie's Totally Epic Summer Contest! Super prizes!!! (Scroll on the pink banner.) fyi, here is Julie Cross's blog.