Five Good Things #13—where we’re looking at Paper Bag Mask Parties, SPFBO#5, a Map of the Aquilan Empire, How Writers Can Make Peace With Their Busy Minds, and Feeling a Disturbance in the Force. robinlythgoe.com

Five Good Things #13 (It’s Still an Amazing World)

It’s still an amazing world, in spite of the crazy, astonishing, and sometimes horrifying headlines the news and social media focus on. I’ve got some cool things for you! A Paper Bag Mask Party, the 5th Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off, Map of the Aquilan Empire, How Writers Can Make Peace With Their Busy Minds, and a quote for readers…

Five Good Things (#12): In which we talk about Fantasy Requirements / Nora Roberts’ Legal Action on Digital Plagiarism / The World of Domhantyr / How to Spell “Fish” / The only library in the world that operates in two countries at once. robinlythgoe.com

Five Good Things #12 (Fantastic Finds)

Five Good Things (#12): In which we talk about Fantasy Requirements / Nora Roberts’ Legal Action on Digital Plagiarism / The World of Domhantyr / How to Spell “Fish” / The only library in the world that operates in two countries at once.

Five Good Things: I discovered that the world is full of cool at a really young age. At age eight or so, I'd found heaven—And now our ability to learn wonderful (and sometimes weird) things is limitless: we have the internet! I sometimes stand in severe danger of walking in and never coming out again. The world is full of cool.

Five Good Things #10 (The World is Full of Cool)

I discovered that the world is full of cool at a really young age. At age eight or so, I’d found heaven—And now our ability to learn wonderful (and sometimes weird) things is limitless: we have the internet! I sometimes stand in severe danger of walking in and never coming out again. The world is full of cool.

Five Good Things #9 (Recent Finds from the Ethersphere) from fantasy author Robin Lythgoe

Five Good Things #9 (Recent Finds from the Ethersphere)

The ethersphere is full of fantastic goodness—and by that I mean there are a lot of cool fantasy-type things and fantasy-seeming things out there for us to discover! Sometimes it’s hard limiting myself to just five pieces of awesomeness, but if I didn’t we’d all be down an endless rabbit hole. Come see what I found this time!

Five Good Things (#7): In which we talk about The Handmaid’s Tale Takes to TV / Creative Writers Retreats / How Big is Your Vocabulary? / A Tiny House Village for Vets / Fantasy e-Book Reader Poll

Five Good Things #7

Welcome to another installment of “Five Good Things”! What’s up? A book goes to TV. Writers retreat. A vocabulary test. A tiny house village. A poll.

Five Good Things #6

This time FIVE GOOD THINGS begins with my procrastination via “The Handmaid’s Tale,” by Margaret Atwood, and visits chocolate and maps. Not in that order.

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Five Good Things (Mar 11)

Five Good Things is such a great article to put together. I get to share some of the cool things I’ve found while procrastinating researching my own writing! Use Scrivener to Manage Your Blog http://www.thecreativepenn.com/2016/03/03/scrivener-book-marketing/ Writing straight into your blog software (WordPress, Typepad, etc.) presents its own problems—you can’t write offline, and searching through old blog posts to find mentions on a specific subject can be difficult. Boy, has Joanna Penn got some great advice! I’m definitely bookmarking this page. The Arcanist’s Mill – A Wizard’s Tower Map with a Twist http://www.fantasticmaps.com/2016/02/the-arcanists-mill_a-wizards-tower-map/ Jonathan Roberts makes awesome, drool-worthy maps. Lands of […]

Five Good Things (Dec 11)

I have Five Good Things for you! Actually, I have a  lot more than that, but this is supposed to be a quick read. So many bloggers and writers out here in the internet world create such good stuff, sometimes it’s hard to choose! Pay What You Want For Ten Great Novels https://storybundle.com/fiction StoryBundle is an awesome idea from the get-go. “The VanderMeer Winter Mix Tape Bundle,” curated by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, is a collection of ten novels including the original anthology Bestiary, with new fiction from China Miéville and Catherynne M. Valente. Christmas gifts, anyone? Top Christmas Gifts […]