A few good links for your Thursday:

• An important post from Jewish writers about anti-Semitism.
• Stories created from dictionary sample sentences.
• Not a huge surprise, but I love family stories.
• And speaking of family, on Anne of Green Gables and the definition of family.
• The delightful Mackenzi Lee on Frankenstein, writing playlists, and her advice for writers.
• For all you fellow punctuation nerds.
• Excellent post on writing transgender character and transitioning.
• The confession to fellow writers..
• Kill your darlings and cut these words.
• Great look at how to write compelling action scenes.
• How the blurb-sausage gets made.
• If book lovers ruled the world.
• Breakdown of gender in YA and SFF.
• How to organize your home writing space.
• Nailing voice as a writer and for your characters.
• Get ready for NaNoWriMo!
• I need the new illustrated Harry Potter like whoa.