Lots of good links for today:

• Challenge your reading habits in 2014.
• An infographic for everything that could be wrong in your screenplay; also useful for novels.
• Great interview with four short story writers you should get to know.
• “When we fret about CONTENT, we miss entirely the worth of a book, the real content.”
• Fears as stories.
• Book gift recommendations for everyone who’s looking for something “emotional and thrilling,” “cool and charming,” and more.
• Writing is the #2 most competitive field in the US, under choreographers and above athletics. So…
• Retreat productivity tips from Laini Taylor.
• “These books were tackling the biggest ideas and questions imaginable. That was the kind of literature I wanted to write, and that was when I made the choice to do it in children’s fiction.”
• Sherlock Holmes inspires a real-life forensic scientist. Fiction matters, people.