Friday Links

Here's a couple of links that I have checked out this week.  Sorry for the lack of posts or on-time posts lately.  This seems to be reflective of what I am doing otherwise, and my desire to regularly do Wednesday posts still is not enough.  Anyway, I will try.  Enjoy the reading:

• Revising: How To Avoid Staring Into The Great Black Abyss
• 3 Layers of ‘Layering’ in Fiction
• "Doing a Whedon": Advice in Killing Off Characters
• Sixteen Things Writers Should Know About Quoting From Letters 
• Don't Pass Me By* (discounting clues in mystery fiction)
• Edgar Award Nominees to remind me that there is lots of good mystery fiction that I am not reading enough of.
• Interesting concepts on outlines... I like some of the thoughts (even though I am a pantser who would LIKE to do outlines...)
• How to be a Writer and Have a Life: or, Livin’ the Dream (some advice on balance that I need to read... and read again)