Twitterific Writing Links
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
A weekly roundup of the best writing links from around the web.
Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 40,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers.
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Creativity and Inspiration / Goal setting
Jumpstart Your Writing Career in 2017: by Fae Rowen
Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration
How Being Bored Out of Your Mind Makes You More Creative: @pomeranian99 @WIRED
How to Use Uber to Improv Better Stories: @TheRyanMcRae
Writers: Discovering What You Love: @woodwardkaren
Love-Based Money and Mindset for Author Entrepreneurs: @MichelePW @lornafaith
Transforming the First Sentences of Famous Short Stories into Literary Star Charts: @rougeux @Lizstins
Dear Writer: Why You Need to Get Out into the World: @emi1y_morgan
Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Fitting in Writing
How to End Every Day Feeling Accomplished: @MichaelHyatt
5 Strategies For When You Don’t Have Time For Your Dream: @10MinNovelists
5 Tips for Turning Your Day Job into a Secret Writing Office: @GiveMeYourTeeth @LitReactor
Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Writer’s Block
Writing Roadblocks: How to Get Unstuck: @Lindasclare
Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Writing Quickly
A Challenge to Writers: The Balance Between Dreaming and Working: @AnnieNeugebauer
Putting the “Professional” in Professional Writer: @KelsieEngen
How to Write Better Faster (podcast): @cksyme
Creativity and Inspiration / Writing Life
How to Keep Stress from Destroying Your Creativity: @colleen_m_story
5 Reasons Police Officers Make Great Writers: @claremackint0sh @SignatureReads
Thanking Influential Teachers: Cumberbatch Reads Camus’ Letter to His Elem. School Teacher: @openculture
Genres / Horror
Horror: Strategies for Hiding and Revealing Your Antagonist: by Mac Childs
Genres / Miscellaneous
On Representation in RPGs: @booksofm @jimchines
Genres / Mystery
Writing the Crime Scene: Arson: @repokempt
English vs American Murder Mysteries: @woodwardkaren
DNA and Other Forensic Evidence: Reliable or Fallible? @debbimack @SueColetta1
Crime fiction set in NC: @mkinberg
Pedigreed families as elements in crime fiction: @mkinberg
How to write characters working in forensics: by Bad Forensic Fiction
Genres / Poetry
Poet Activists Throughout the Years: @My_poetic_side
Genres / Science Fiction
How To Become A Master of Writing Science Fiction: by Ryan Turpin @SciFi_Addicts
Genres / Young Adult
How to Write With a Teen Voice: @Janice_Hardy
Promo / Ads
3 Ways to Improve Your Facebook Ads: @LarryAlton3
Promo / Blogging
What use are blog analytics? They tell an interesting story: @sgc58
Promo / Miscellaneous
How to Use Fiverr to Create a Book Trailer: @ThereseWalsh
3 Skills Every Author Needs to Sell More Books: @cksyme
Should You Use Kindle Pre-order? @loishoffmanDE
7 Tips for Using Swag to Promote Your Book: @ceciliaedits
Planning the Perfect Release Marketing Tip Video Series: @JAHuss
Promo / Newsletters
3 Approaches to Email Marketing for a Book Launch: @bkmkting
5 Steps to Set Up Your Blog and Email List: @lornafaith
Promo / Social Media Tips
On Using Memes to Market Books: @RogerDColby
7 Ways To Get More Out Of Pinterest: @woodwardkaren
Promo / Speaking
5 Strategies for Dealing with Speaking Anxiety: @Exec_Speak @livequiet
Promo / Websites
10 Must-Know Website Tips & Tricks for Writers: @lwlindquist @tspoetry
10 Easy Steps for Creating an Awesome Website: @Bookgal @BwkrSelfPublish
Publishing / Miscellaneous
How to Email an Illustrator: @IllustrationAge
Why the Internet Didn’t Kill Zines: @jennydeluxe @nytimes
Advice on Writing a Novella Collection: @pattywrites on @NovelRocket
Publishing / News / Amazon
https://t.co/EHAmyYA10j will now come in Spanish, too: by Ben Rubin @PassiveVoiceBlg
Publishing / News / International Publishing
Rights Watch: Books Headed to London Book Fair’s Rights Center: @Porter_Anderson
Amazon Publishing at London Book Fair: Literary, Suspense, Memoir: @Porter_Anderson
IPA’s Michiel Kolman on China: ‘A $10 Billion Concern’: @Porter_Anderson @michielams
Hay Festival plans a new children’s literature festival for October: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
Publishing / Options / Self-Publishing
3 Important Things To Know About Self-Publishing: @Laura_VAB @RMFWriters
Publishing / Options / Traditional Publishing
How to Escape the Slush Pile by Brandon Taylor @ElectricLit
3 Questions to Ask Before a “Revise and Resubmit”: @besscozby
How to Stay Positive on Your Path to Getting a Book Published: @almccall @thewritelife
Publishing / Process / Legalities
Using Gucci and Other Trademarks in Your Writing: @HelenSedwick
Writing Craft / Beginnings
What’s most important at the story’s start: plot, characters, or world? by Plot Hotline
What “Starts with Action” Really Means: @angiehodapp
Writing Craft / Characters / Antagonists
How To Make The Reader Trust Your Villain: @standoutbooks
Writing Craft / Characters / Development
3 Character Development Questions for Writing About Jobs You’ve Never Done: @jeffelk
Writing Craft / Characters / Protagonists
Why Should Your Readers Care About Your Protagonist? 11 Questions to Find Out: @thewritingkylie
Writing Craft / Characters / Supporting Characters
Creating Stunning Side Characters (and Why They Matter): @SeptCFawkes
Writing Craft / Common Mistakes
What Bad Writing Looks Like and How to Fix It: @aliventures
Real Life Diagnostics: Does This Character Introduction Work? @Janice_Hardy
Writing Craft / Diversity
Representation Matters: A Literary Call To Arms: @tinytempest
Writing Craft / Flashback and Back Story
On Writing Flashbacks (video): @Ava_Jae
Writing Craft / Lessons from Books and Film
Making Your Protagonist the Antagonist: Robert Siegel on The Founder: @CreativeScreen
“Comic books can teach writers how to tell a self-contained story within a larger arc.” @DrWarsh @ReedsyHQ
7 Exceptional Books to Read in Times of Grief: @rosmance @SignatureReads
5 Things Writers Can Learn From Reading Fairy Tales: @MihiBlue
Authors on Illness: 5 Books Destigmatizing Cancer: @lequincampe
9 Stories That Continue After the Adventure: by Stubby the Rocket @tordotcom
Writing Craft / Literary Devices
Interview with an English Teacher: The Heroic in Literature: @annkroeker @tspoetry
The 4 Main Characters As Literary Devices: @Writers_Write
How To Strengthen The Theme Of Your Book During Edits: @StephMorrill
Writing Craft / Miscellaneous
Is Robert Frost’s advice to writers brilliant or disastrous? @emma_darwin
Author @barrylyga on writing in different genres and in darker themes: @TheIWSG
The Writer’s Guide to Time Travel: @amabaie
Writing Craft / POV
Writing in third person limited: @jasonbougger
Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Plotting
12 Story Plot Twist Ideas: @ZoeMMcCarthy
4 Reasons Why Authors Shouldn’t Be Nice In Their Stories: @10MinNovelists
Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Research
Down the Research Rabbit Hole: @RobinStorey1
Writing Craft / Punctuation and Grammar
Writing Tenses: 5 Tips to get Past, Present and Future Right: @nownovel
How Did English End Up With There/Their/They’re? @mental_floss @arikaokrent
The Oxford Comma: Great For Listing, Pontificating, And Winning Court Cases: @colintdwyer @NPR
3 Cases of Too Many Commas: @writing_tips
Writing Craft / Revision
Kill Your Darlings: But First You Have to Find them: @RosanneBane
8 Tips for Seeing Your Novel with “Fresh Eyes”: @HarrietWriter @WomenWriters
Writing Craft / Revisions / Critiques
How to Hold an Excellent Critique Group Meeting: @Lindasclare
How to brief a Beta Reader for amazing results: @Belinda_Pollard
Writing Craft / Settings and Description
There are No Throwaway Details: @p2p_editor
Writing Craft / Special Needs
4 Tips On Writing An Awesome Disabled Character: @Bang2write
Writing Craft / Synopses
Tackling the Dreaded Synopsis: @jkolin27 @OpAwesome6
Writing Craft / Tension
Ratcheting Up The Tension: by Shawn Coyne
How To Create Conflict Between Multiple Antagonists: by Hannah Collins @standoutbooks
Writing Tools / Apps
The search engine for writers: redesigned. Now search by category: @Hiveword
Using Scrivener with Story Genius: @Gwen_Hernandez
Writing Tools / Resources
Free Training on Book Promotion Strategies: Wed 3-15 at 3:00 PM ET: @ReedsyHQ
Free webinar on recording your own audiobooks: @JFbookman
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