I’ve been looking for a better way to curate links for nonfiction writers. Using Diigo, I’m able to collect links as I’m surfing the internet, annotate them, and then post them to How Did You Write That with a few clicks. Rather than wait for Friday, I’ll post any time I have five new things to share.

As always, these are five quick links of inspiration, how-to, opportunity, or just plain fun.  Got a link you’d like to share? Send a tweet to @emccullough, join my Diigo group, or contact me here. 

• How to Write a Powerful Book Proposal that Sells

  Jane Friedman is teaching an online course this summer in writing book proposals in the digital age. Click the link for more details.

• Tips for Writers: Learn “Buoyancy” in the face of rejection | Clifford Garstang

  All writers face rejection. What can we learn from the art of sales about facing it?

• 5 Research Steps Before Writing Your Book Proposal

  More from Jane Friedman on writing book proposals, including worksheets to help you thoroughly research your market and platform.

• Writing tips from the CIA’s ruthless style manual – Quartz

  “The foreword begins, “Good intelligence depends in large measure on clear, concise writing. The information CIA gathers and the analysis it produces mean little if we cannot convey them effectively.””

• Advice From Great Writers About Kicking Writer’s Block – Pacific Standard: The Science of Society

  “So what is a writer to do but devise, modify, borrow, and steal scraps of wisdom from our betters while deriving comfort in knowing that even our betters suffer the malady too? “

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.