My Imaginary Friends with L. Penelope

Rolling With the Ups and Downs

THIS WEEK’S BEST THINGS!
Figuring out my plot for Earthsinger Chronicles book
Whispers of Shadow & Flame book release!
New York Comic Con signing 
Pre-order Cry of Metal & Bone (Earthsinger Chronicles book 3)
FUN FACTS: How spiders fly https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/the-electric-flight-of-spiders/564437/
MENTIONS:
The Wolf Queen Book I and Book II by Cerece Rennie Murphy 
Author Lynne Emory - https://www.lynnemery.com
My Man Godfrey - film
The Orchid Throne by Jeffe Kennedy
Before She Ignites by Jodi Meadows
Masterwriter.com
OneStopForWriters.com
Scrivener writing software
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It's Release Week!

THIS WEEK'S BEST THING: Brooklyn Book Festival! PLUS Whispers of Shadow & Flame is out this week!
 Mentions:
- N.K. Jemisin
- P. Djèlí Clark
- #SupportBlackWomenWhoWriteWeirdShit
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Organizing My Revision

This week’s best thing: Southside on Comedy Central
Whispers of Shadow & Flame comes out October 1!
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Mentions:
The First Girl Child by Amy Harmon – https://amzn.to/30fkr46
Jeffe Kennedy podcast – https://blog.jeffekennedy.com/
The Orchid Throne by Jeffe Kennedy – https://jeffekennedy.com/the-orchid-throne
Psychic Distance in writing: https://emmadarwin.typepad.com/thisitchofwriting/psychic-distance-what-it-is-and-how-to-use-it.html
Sheltered by Charlotte Stein – https://amzn.to/30hla4E
Article: 10 Things to Know about Being Published – https://emmadarwin.typepad.com/thisitchofwriting/2019/08/ten-things-to-know-about-being-published.html
 
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Leveling Up

This week's best thing: The Boys on Amazon Prime
 
Mentions:
 
The Story Grid - https://storygrid.com
 
Margie Lawson - https://www.margielawson.com
 
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What I learned from writing 20k in 5 days

This week's best thing: I'm climbing again (a little) & Carnival Row on Amazon Prime - I loved it!
 
Mentions
 
- Paragraph NYC co-working writing space - https://www.paragraphny.com/
 
- Deep Work by Cal Newport - https://amzn.to/2LBMr7
 
- NK Jemisin on fanfic - https://twitter.com/nkjemisin/status/116926504826459750
 
- My events calendar - https://lpenelope.com/calendar
 
- Whispers of Shadow & Flame Pre-order giveaway - http://lpen.co/preorder
 
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Time to Write

This week's best thing: My doctor said I can try rock climbing with my wrist braces!
 
Mentions:
 
* #20kin5days challenge post - https://www.tashalharrison.com/blog/i-might-live-to-regret-this-20kin5days
 
* The Creative Penn episode on podcasting - https://www.thecreativepenn.com/2019/08/28/podcasting-goes-mainstream-podcast-movement-2019/
 
* Tim Grahl's Productivity Guide - https://booklaunch.com/writer-productivity/
 
* Song of Blood & Stone readalong - https://facebook.com/groups/lpenelope
 
 
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Finding your Zest and Gusto!

THIS WEEK’S BEST THING: My writer mastermind group and my homegirls Ines Johnson and Cerece Rennie Murphy.
My Facebook group and readalong – https://www.facebook.com/groups/lpenelope/
* Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor – https://amzn.to/2zjcfQk
* Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert – https://amzn.to/2LaZ0a5
* Zen and the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury – https://amzn.to/2HnTKys
* Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield – https://amzn.to/32500mC
* The Writer’s Well podcast – http://thewriterswell.org
* Octavia Butler journal – https://blavity.com/octavia-butler/
* Dear White People on Netflix – https://www.netflix.com/title/80095698
* Darynda Jones outline: http://www.magicalwords.net/specialgueststars/darynda-jones-the-writing-process-of-an-ocd-plotter/
* A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas- https://amzn.to/2HpTCyt
 
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There Must Be a Reason

This Week’s Best Thing: Jamila Woods "GIOVANNI”  - https://soundcloud.com/jamilawoods/giovanni-1
 
Mentions:
* Nikki Giovanni “Ego-Tripping”- https://poets.org/poem/ego-tripping-there-may-be-reason-why
* Gemini by Nikki Giovanni – video of her reading from it – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=084lIpz3yvY
* Scene planning notecard image - https://lpenelope.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_5429-300x225.jpg
* RWA podcast on productivity – https://rwa-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/productivity08
* Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri – http://lpen.co/empireofsand
* Death’s Dancer by Jasmine Silvera – https://amzn.to/2YIdoLE
* A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas – https://amzn.to/2H5cdzV
 
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To YA or not to YA? That is the question...

This week’s best thing: Toni Morrison’s legacy
 
Mentions:
* Beloved by Toni Morrison - https://amzn.to/31zH13k
* Jeffe Kennedy’s podcast on YA vs Adult SFF - https://blog.jeffekennedy.com/2019/08/09/first-cup-of-coffee-august-9-2019/
* MarsCon - http://www.marscon.net/wp/
* Brooklyn Book Festival - https://brooklynbookfestival.org/
* Roni Loren - Done Planner - https://roniloren.com/blog/2018/9/17/the-done-planner-combating-the-dark-side-of-the-traditional-to-do-list
* My Event Schedule - http://lpenelope.com/calendar
* My newsletter - https://lpenelope.com/newsletter
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Getting Unstuck: Earning Inspiration

This week’s best thing: Creating Character Arcs by KM Weiland - her website: https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/
Mentions:* Double Vision Editorial - developmental editor - http://doublevisioneditorial.com/* Write Better Faster class - https://betterfasteracademy.com* Verbalize by Damon Suede* Actions: the Actor’s Thesaurus* Janet Mullany author - https://www.janetmullany.com/* Death’s Dancer by Jasmine Silvera* Teacher’s Pet Wolf by Kati Wilde* Wild Seed by Octavia Butler* Lindsay Emory - Women with Books podcast - https://lindsayemory.com/womenwithbooks* Laura von Holt - The Mermaid Podcast - http://www.cinderly.com/posts/category/podcast/* "Defining Disciplined: When You Realize You’re Doing It Wrong" article
 
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Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarudCreative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/SZkVShypKgM
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