Monday Hangovers

• The wondrous Meghan McCarron has an *excellent* new story up at Tor.com, "Swift, Brutal Retaliation." You won't read another ghost story like this one anytime soon.
• Dept. of I Love This Kind of Thing: Maggie Stiefvater compares and contrasts the draft of a chapter, taking it from first version to last.
• Laini Taylor offers some questions to ask when a scene is giving you fits.
• I can't remember where I first saw this, but it's kind of amazing: "The Power of the Witch," a British documentary from 1971.
• There could have been no more perfect name for this bird than Muppet.
• A good piece on acknowledgements at the Millions; I heart acks.
• Just in case you haven't yet swooned at the beauty of Tiffany Trent's cover for The Unnaturalists: Go do so.
• The delightful Nova Ren Suma is hosting a new blog series starting tomorrow, this one on turning points. (I'll be contributing an essay for this one; just started working on it, actually.)