Twitterific Writing Links

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

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Business / Miscellaneous

5 Tips from “Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living”: @manjulamartin @KolinaCicero

Conferences and Events / Miscellaneous

5 Things To Do After a Writers’ Conference: @AndreaMerrell
A Closer Look at BookCon in New York City: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives

Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration

Never Listen To The People Who Want To Limit You: @Jonwestenberg
Tabletops and Storytelling: @judyblackcloud
22 Writing Prompts Inspired By Tarot Cards: @BrynDonovan
Do it Again! Taking Readers on a Fantastic Voyage: @ByDougPeterson

Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration / Reading as Writers

The 12 Creepiest Companies in Literature: @carrievasios @ElectricLit

Creativity and Inspiration / Motivation

Are You Lying about Your Writing? To Yourself? @RosanneBane
Resurrect a Forgotten Manuscript: @Book_Arch
Don’t Let Your Writing Take the Summer Off: @jennienash
Time Management 101: Writing Through our Busy Lives: @msheatherwebb
A Kinder, Gentler Way to Force Yourself to Write: @karenbbooth @theverbs

Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Writer’s Block

Getting over your writing inhibitions: @AllieLarkin
Warning: Are You at Risk of a Story Collapse? by Dale Kutzera @WritetoDone

Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Writing Quickly

How to Use Your First 2 Morning Hours to Boost Productivity: @colleen_m_story
How to Hack Your Way to Writing Productivity: @CSLakin

Creativity and Inspiration / Success

How To Prioritize Growth In Writing: @rsmollisonread

Creativity and Inspiration / Writing Life

The Writer’s Process: @halliecantor @newyorker
50 Signs You’re In Love With A Writer: @AnnieNeugebauer
Writing About Marriage When You Want to Stay Married: @danijshapiro @CatapultStory
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Psychic Cost of Selling Out: @venetianblonde @lithub
The Food Pyramid for Writers: @ChristophPaul_
4 Reasons Freelance Writers Should Work From a Coffee Shop: @sardegeorge
5 Great Creative Writing Tips (Which this Writer Never Follows): @DaniellaNLevy
11 Myths about creative writing and writers: @Peter_Rey_

Genres / Dystopian

How the Walking Dead Explores the Fabric of Society: by Nathan Lauffer @mythicscribes

Genres / Fantasy

The Chosen Children of Portal Fantasy: @seananmcguire @tordotcom

Genres / Miscellaneous

3 Secrets Great Writers Know About Experimental Fiction: @FredBobJohn

Genres / Mystery

5 Bands/Musicians Who Might Actually Write Crime Fiction: @GiveMeYourTeeth @LitReactor

Genres / Poetry

The Chinese Factory Workers Who Write Poems on Their Phones: by Megan Walsh @lithub

Genres / Romance

38 Clichés to Avoid when Writing Romance: @lansi26

Genres / Screenwriting

Screenwriting: Great Scene: “Inglourious Basterds”: @GoIntoTheStory

Promo / Ads

11 Things You Should Know About BookBub Subscribers: @BeeLorelle @BookBub

Promo / Blogging

Content Creation for Bloggers: 14 Kinds of Shareable Content: @JFbookman

Promo / Miscellaneous

What’s Data Got To Do With Book Sales? (podcast): @cksyme
Loglines – 5 Reasons Why They Are So Incredibly Important: @ozzywood
How 1 Writer Went From One Sale in February to 100+ Sales in March: @Malfhok
Understanding The 3-Stages Of The Buying Cycle Can Improve Your Book Sales: @jckunzjr
Anatomy of a St. Martin’s Hit Built on the Goodreads Platform: @suzanneskyvara @Porter_Anderson

Promo / Newsletters

How to Quit Monkeying Around and Conquer MailChimp in 2017: @MarshaIngrao

Publishing / Miscellaneous

Publishing: A Decade in Review: @kcraftwriter
The Key Book Publishing Paths: 2017: @JaneFriedman
US Audiobook Growth Soars for 3rd Year in a Row: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
34 Writing Contests in June 2017 – No entry fees: @EricaVerrillo
Pronoun announces library distribution through OverDrive and Bibliotheca: @pronoun

Publishing / News / Amazon

What does Amazon Charts mean for the book industry? @davidmbarnett @GuardianBooks

Publishing / News / International Publishing

BookNet Canada: Digital Revenue Up in 2016, Ebook Sales Down: @Porter_Anderson @BookNet_Canada

Publishing / Options / Self-Publishing

Self Publishing Vs Traditional Publishing: @GarySmailes

Publishing / Options / Traditional Publishing / Querying

Tips for Better Query Letters: by Jaime Olin @OpAwesome6

Publishing / Process / Author Assistants

An Author Assistant on Her Job and Tips for Writers: @junglereds

Publishing / Process / Book Design

14 Sites for Making a Spectacular Book Cover: @thDigitalReader

Publishing / Process / Legalities

5 Legal Myths That Writers Still Fall For, Debunked: @HelenSedwick

Writing Craft / Beginnings

15 Cheesy Writing Fails To Avoid In The First 10 Pages: @Bang2write

Writing Craft / Characters / Antagonists

Show Your Baddie R-E-S-P-E-C-T to Make Them Memorable: @JordanDane

Writing Craft / Characters / Development

Character Archetypes: Enriching your Novel’s Cast: @nownovel
Get To Know Your Characters Better With This Novel Device: @standoutbooks
How to Take Advantage of Your 4 Most Important Characters: @KMWeiland

Writing Craft / Characters / Supporting Characters

How to Figure Out How Much Development Your Minor Characters Need: @ink_and_quills

Writing Craft / Common Mistakes

Using true events in your novel? Some warning signs: @kcraftwriter
What Writing Rules Do You Always Get Wrong? by Bonnie Randall
Why The Best Book Marketing Cannot Sell A Poor Book: @cksyme
Stop Info Dumps Before They Start: @jennienash

Writing Craft / Drafts

3 Essential Tips for Writing Compelling Stories: @ChadRAllen

Writing Craft / Literary Devices

Amplification: Embellish What You Just Wrote With More Information: @ZoeMMcCarthy

Writing Craft / Miscellaneous

The unreliable narrator: @Peter_Rey_
On Character Minutiae and Seemingly Irrelevant Details: by Bonnie Randall
How to become a science writer: by Rebecca Hill @TheWriterMag
Real Life Diagnostics: Is This Action Scene Clear? @Janice_Hardy
Rule of Three: @PTBradley1

Writing Craft / Pacing

Pace Your Story Like a Symphony: @JanalynVoigt

Writing Craft / POV

Point of View: Second Person: @HelloTheFuture

Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Plotting

Prologue, Introduction, Preface, or Foreword: Which Is Right for You? @McgannKellie
5 Stories Afraid of Their Own Premise: by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants
Rinse & Repeat – The 4 Act Novel Structure: @MikhaeylaK
Plotting with Mythic Structure: @AnnetteLyon

Writing Craft / Punctuation and Grammar

Quick Fixes for Commas Splices: @annkroeker
Parentheses in Fiction: Do They Break the Fourth Wall? @LyndaDietz4
Restrictive and Unrestrictive Use of “Such As”: @writing_tips
Constructing Paragraphs in Fiction: by Diane Tibert

Writing Craft / Revision

Getting Out of Rewrite Hell Alive: by PJ Parrish
How to Fill the Gaps in Your Plot: @jamesscottbell

Writing Craft / Revisions / Critiques

How To Be (And Keep) A Highly Effective Critique Partner: @ThePaigeDuke
Revising (Why You Need to Find Your People): @lauraeweymouth

Writing Craft / Series

A Tale of Two Trilogies: @alison_morton @WomenWriters

Writing Craft / Settings and Description

Fantastic Settings and How to Write Them: by Michaela Whatnall

Writing Craft / Transitions

How to Write a Killer Transition: @KathyEdens1

Writing Tools / Apps

BuzzTrace: New Social Media Software Review: @CaballoFrances @BookWorksNYC @buzz_trace
Setting Up Your Scrivener Project for Easier Compiling: @Gwen_Hernandez @WriterUnboxed

Uncategorized

How British and American Spelling Parted Ways: @arikaokrent via @PassiveVoiceBlg
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