Courtesy of Brian

With thanks to Brian Lindenmuth, we have a trio of interesting blog essays today.

The first is by Rachael Gardner about "Managing Expectations" http://cba-ramblings.blogspot.com/2010/07/managing-expectations.html It's always easy to blame others when things don't go as expected but then, what in life ever goes as planned?

Conjugate Visits is a new blog to me and it's filled with posts about editing. This one shows how this editor would have edited the first page of Steig Larsson's "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo", which would have been a much easier read with a bit of editing to pare it down ( my opinion ). http://conjugatevisits.blogspot.com/2010/07/more-parsing-larsson-querying-great.html

And it's always interesting to read writing advice, even if we don't use everything that comes our way. http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2010/07/mind-meld-the-best-writing-advice-i-ever-received/

Over at the Book View Cafe, Phyllis Radford, takes a look at short vs long from her own perspective of trying to write short stories. http://blog.bookviewcafe.com/2010/07/29/so-you-want-to-commit-novel-9-short-vs-long/