Twitterific Writing Links

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

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Business / Miscellaneous


What makes a good fiction editor? @LouiseHarnby


Conferences and Events / Miscellaneous


Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron To Open Frankfurt Book Fair: @Porter_Anderson


Conferences and Events / NaNoWriMo


You Do You – 5 Tips for Making the Most of NaNoWriMo: @MaggieWells1


How to Write Your NaNo Novel Like a Banned Book: @lidywilks

Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration


How to Make the Most of Your Time as a Teen Writer: @tessaemilyhall


Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration / Reading as Writers


Too Smart or Too Pretty? The Anne of Green Gables Paradox: @egabbert @lithub


5 Books Where the Hero Doesn’t Save the Day: @Artfulskeptic @tordotcom


10 of the Best Alien Books: @Keith_Rice1 @SignatureReads


5 Amazing Prequels To Great Fantasy Series: @shawnspeakman


13 Tips on Plowing Through ‘IT’ (or any long book) In A Few Days: @helpfulsnowman


Creativity and Inspiration / Motivation


Why You Should Work With a Writing Mentor: @beckorio @scottishbktrust


11 Pieces of Encouragement Writers Need to Hear: @_HannahHeath


Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Fitting in Writing


How to Write a Book When You’re Too Busy: @Chris_Kokoski


5 Tips For Writing A Novel While Working Full-Time: @rsmollisonread


Tips for Making Time to Write Our Books: @NChristie_OH


When Writing Takes a Backseat: @JJ_Burry


The Cheap Retreat: More Writing, Less Money, Too Much Ice Cream: @cbramkamp


Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Writing Quickly


5 Tips To Write A Novella Fast: @angee


Creativity and Inspiration / Writing Life


3 Things People Think About Writers: @SiouxR


7 Journaling Prompts for Taking Care of Yourself During Stressful Times: @writingthrulife


15 Famous Writers on the Perils of a Formal Education: @knownemily


Cringe-worthy Reader Questions: @ellajoyolsen


8 Ways Writers Can Keep Their Health in Balance: @tessaemilyhall


How to Avoid the Dangerous Trap of the “Perfect Writing Life”: @colleen_m_story @RMFWriters


How to Enter the Writer’s Trance: @RosanneBane


How to Write a Book With Traumatic Brain Injury: @AlicePoet @lithub


Genres / Fantasy


A Century of Fantasy: How the Genre’s Changed Since the 1920s: @ReedsyHQ


Genres / Historical


A First Look at Writing Historical Fiction: by Linda Wilson


Genres / Middle-Grade


5 Lessons Learned Writing a First Middle Grade Novel: @gmyrthilbooks @DIYMFA


Genres / Miscellaneous


The Pros and Cons of Cross Genre Fiction: @IsabellaMayBks @WomenWriters


Genres / Mystery


Casinos as elements in crime fiction: @mkinberg


Crime fiction elements: unforgivable sins in different professional fields: @mkinberg


Modern conveniences as elements in crime fiction: @mkinberg


Hazards to Avoid in a Cozy Mystery:


Genres / Non-Fiction


How to Become an Author Even If You’re Just a Blogger: @savilleneuve


Nonfiction Objects of Desire: @SPressfield


Genres / Paranormal


How to Write a Paranormal Romance Novel: The Ultimate Guide: by Georgina Roy @writingtipsoasi


Genres / Poetry


Writing Poetry for Beginners: @dianaraab @WomenWriters


Promo / Ads


Is It Ever Okay to Lose Money on Advertising? @MarcyKennedy


Promo / Back matter


Brainstorming Your Book’s Support Materials: @Book_Arch


Promo / Book Descriptions and Copywriting


Power-charge your blurb with hooks: @janetlaneauthor @RMFWriters


Promo / Book Reviews


7 Clever Ways to Leverage Reviews in Your Book Marketing: @EmilyWenstrom


Promo / Connecting with Readers


Your Author Platform: 4 Key Strategies: @LThompsonBooks


5 Tips for Marketing your Books in Person: @mariadismondy @thecreativepenn


Promo / Metadata


Keywords and Search Engines (The Bare-Bottom Basics Every Author Should Know): @KarenCV


Promo / Miscellaneous


Overcoming the Shame of Self-Promotion: @manzanitafire


Promo / Social Media Tips


3 Ways to Use Hashtags as Authors: @CaballoFrances


Promo / Websites


How Landing Page Frustration Lands You in the Dump: @MarshaIngrao


Publishing / Miscellaneous


US Ebook Revenue Up in May; Sourcebooks Signs With Gotham for Film: @Porter_Anderson


4 Tips to Meet Deadlines by @sarahsundin on @NovelRocket :


US National Book Award’s 20 Finalists Are Named: Four Categories: @Porter_Anderson


Publishing / News / International Publishing


Italian Frankfurt Rights Update: Piergiorgio Nicolazzini Highlights: @Porter_Anderson


Turkey’s Burhan Sönmez wins the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation award: @Porter_Anderson


Distribution Expansion: Germany’s Bookwire Acquires Brazil’s DLD: @Porter_Anderson


Canada’s Entertainment One Is Wattpad’s Newest Content Partner: @Porter_Anderson


Christmas In October: UK Rights Rustler Matt Haig Sleighs to Frankfurt: @Porter_Anderson @matthaig1


Kalimat Foundation at Göteborg Book Fair: Arabic Books for Children: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives


Turkish Literature Abroad at Frankfurt; Hungary Stages Five Authors: @Porter_Anderson


‘I Didn’t Believe It’: Kazuo Ishiguro Wins 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives


Publishing / Options / Traditional Publishing / Querying


Switching From Querying Agents to Querying Publishers: @KristenBrakeman @WomenWriters


Surviving the Querying Trenches: @sebastian_lk


Matching voice in query and sample pages: @ml_keller


Publishing / Process / Translation


Why We Need to Translate More Women Writers: by David Brookshaw @lithub


Writing Craft / Arc


The Series Arc: @Book_Arch


Writing Craft / Beginnings


Real Life Diagnostics: Does This Horror Opening Work? @Janice_Hardy


Writing Craft / Characters / Antagonists


Villain Clichés That Work: 4 Lessons From The Dark Tower Movie: @sacha_black


Writing Craft / Characters / Development


Indirect Characterization: How to Reveal Character Subtly: @nownovel


5 Moral Dilemmas That Make Characters and Stories Even Better: by Nicolas Rossmiller


Writing Craft / Characters / Protagonists


How and Why to Write an Anti Hero: @Je55ieMullin5


Writing Craft / Characters / Supporting Characters


Making Characters Stuck in the Background Pop Out: @SeptCFawkes


Writing Craft / Common Mistakes


Do You Really Know How to “Show, Don’t Tell”? @CSLakin


Give Your Reader A Chance To Fill In The Rest: @Bang2write


5 Ways To Instantly Improve Your Story: @Chris_Kokoski


When Yay Becomes Yuck: by Josh Langston


Writing Craft / Conflict


5 Ways to Create Strong Internal Conflict: @Janice_Hardy


What’s Driving Your Plot? @Janice_Hardy @Ava_Jae


Writing Craft / Diversity


Reading Jane Eyre While Black: @tylachelleco @lithub


How White Writers Can Be Better Allies to Writers of Color: @NataliaSylv @WriterUnboxed


“American Girls” Taught 1 Writer That Diversity Is The Most Beautiful Thing: @KarisRogerson @LitReactor


Writing Craft / Flashback and Back Story


Weaving Backstory Into Frontstory: @jamesscottbell


Writing Craft / Lessons from Books and Film


12 Literary Writers on Stephen King’s Influence: @knownemily


Learning To Write Dialogue From ‘The Wire’ And ‘Anne of Green Gables’: @Spencimus


13 Writing Lessons From 13 Reasons Why: @jennienash


5 Stories That End With Bizarre Reveals: by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants


The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Beat Sheet: @RubioSalva @savethecat


Writing Craft / Miscellaneous


2 Questions about Story: by Art Holcomb @storyfix


Insights into Your Midpoint Scene: @CSLakin


The Trouble With Action: @VaughnRoycroft


The Structure of an Injury Plot: @scriptmedic


How to Empower Your Writing With a Brilliant Epigraph: by John MacIlroy @write_practice


Writing Craft / POV


Alternate POVs: @iamagemcrystal


Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Plotting


5 Quick Fixes for a Sagging Middle: @WriteToSell


Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Research


Injury Analysis: Misery: @scriptmedic


Writing Craft / Punctuation and Grammar


Punctuation Quiz: Capitalization: @writing_tips


Writing Craft / Revision


You Can’t Edit Your Own Book and Here are 7 Reasons Why: @batwood


10 Easy Edits to Improve Your Manuscript Right Now: @repokempt @LitReactor


Shakespeare and the art of revision: @nevalalee


Writing Craft / Revisions / Critiques


4 Tips for Translating Critique-Speak: @kcraftwriter


Writing Craft / Series


The Art of Writing (and Ending) a Serie (podcast): @decastell @DIYMFA


Writing Craft / Series / Series Bible


How to Create a Series Bible For Your Fiction: @lornafaith


Writing Craft / Settings and Description


Developing Themes In Your Stories: The Setting: @SaraL_Writer


How to use the 5 senses for thrilling descriptions: @RidethePen


6 Ways Setting Can Create Conflict: @Janice_Hardy


Writing Craft / Tropes


PubCrawl Podcast: Coming of Age Stories: @PubCrawlBlog


Writing Craft / Word Crafting


100+ Ways to Say “Sad”: A Word List for Writers: @KathySteinemann


Writing Craft / World-Building


3 Steps to Building Your Story World: @Janice_Hardy


Worldbuilding For Urban Fantasy: @KhaosFoxe


Writing Tools / Books


25 Must-Read Books About Writing: @thewritelife


Uncategorized


Stop comparing yourself to other writers: @PatHatt24 @TheIWSG @PatHatt24

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