How to use personal ads to define a character

How to use a random name generator to spark character ideas

How to get diversity in your cast when they all start looking and sounding the same

How to deal with secondary characters that try to take over your story

And if pictures of people from magazines and model websites don’t produce the face of your character, try this face generator and take a look at one of the character’s Lynn put together for a novel.

And if you’ve never read Lynn’s blog, you should.  She has a great sense of humor, she offers a ton of writing advice and information on her blog and has posted many stories and ebooks on her Scribd account, free for the downloading.

Patricia Woodside gives you three ways to begin investing in your writing with Funding Your Writing Career.

JA Konrath talks about 7 things a writer can do to get more money in MONEY With a Capital M-O-N-E-Y.

Paperback Writer gives advice on tracking writing-related expenses in March: Expenses.

Holly Lisle provides some ways to prepare for quitting your day job and writing full-time in Dealing With Money.

And Miss Snark reminds us that money flows from the publisher to the agent to the author and never from the author to the agent or the publisher in Let’s Do the Math.