Twitterific Writing Links

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

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Conferences and Events / Miscellaneous


Frankfurt’s International Self Publishing Program: Updates, Guidance: @Porter_Anderson @OrnaRoss


Pakistan Publishers and Karachi Book Fair Makes a Case at Frankfurt: @Porter_Anderson


Tuesday at Frankfurter Buchmesse: The Markets in Time of Change: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives


Publishing Perspectives Talks: Translation, Copyright, Content Strategy: @Porter_Anderson


Conferences and Events / NaNoWriMo


A beginner’s guide to entering NaNoWriMo 2017: @bethanyrscott @beprolifiko


Why Do NaNoWriMo? @Wordfoolery


“How NaNoWriMo changed my life by novelist”: @thatjuliacrouch @beprolifiko


How to keep writing after NaNoWriMo 2017: by Bec Evans @beprolifiko

Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration


Fortified by Gratitude: @VaughnRoycroft


Creativity and Inspiration / Miscellaneous


How To Save Your Story From The Sunk Cost Fallacy: by Robert Wood @standoutbooks


Creativity and Inspiration / Motivation


Rebooting Your Writing When You’ve Stopped for too Long: @ElisabethStaab


12 Tips on How to Create a New Habit: @woodwardkaren


Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Fitting in Writing


Increasing Your Writing Productivity: @colleen_m_story


Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Writer’s Block


The Virtues of Non-Linear Writing: @GoIntoTheStory


Creativity and Inspiration / Success


How to Make Your Life Story Life-Changing: @dianaraab


Creativity and Inspiration / Writing Life


Cryptomnesia Can Kill Your Writing Career – Here’s How To Avoid It: by Robert Wood @standoutbooks


Staying Focused as a Creative, and When You Maybe Shouldn’t: @StephMorrill @GoTeenWriters


Swearing as a meditation: @sonia__harris


Making a Strong Body to Support a Lively Brain: @elisehooper


Using the Novel Journal for Writing Breakthroughs: @jamesscottbell


Why Writers Are Not Always The Best Judge Of Storytelling: @Bang2write


A Difficult Balance: Am I a Writer or a Teacher? @noMORIpunish


The “Real Life” Guide to Writing: @Chris_Mentzer


Top 5 Reasons Cruising is the Perfect Writing Vacation: @LH_Writes


How Academics Survive the Writing Grind: by Helen Sword


Genres / Horror


How Modern Horror Franchises Have Embraced Creepypasta to Stay Relevant: @nataliezutter


Keep to the Path: Horror Fiction and Little Red Riding Hood: by Stephen Graham @tordotcom


Genres / Memoir


7 Top Tips on Memoirs of Moving House: @writerjeangill


Genres / Miscellaneous


Choose Your Genre, Change Your World: @jesslourey


Genres / Mystery


The public’s horrible fascination with crime as an element in crime fiction: @mkinberg


The diversity of fictional PIs’ backgrounds as an element in crime fiction: @mkinberg


6 Tips For Conducting A Solid Crime Scene Investigation: @LeeLofland


Viewpoint Jumps and Pacing in Mysteries: @p2p_editor


50 Mystery Plot Ideas and Writing Prompts: @BrynDonovan


Writer @Mike54Martin on the importance of setting in mysteries:


Genres / Non-Fiction


Developing the Best Title for Your Nonfiction Book: by Jody Rein with Michael Larsen @JaneFriedman


Genres / Romance


Putting Meat on the Bones of your Heroes: @TessaShapcott


Genres / Science Fiction


5 Myths About Writing Science Fiction: @RogerDColby


Genres / Women’s Fiction


5 Tips on Writing Women’s Fiction: @AnneLParrish @WritersDigest


Promo / Miscellaneous


Tips for Podcast Guests:


6 Marketing Tips for Debut Authors: @carlywatters @OpenBookON


Book Marketing: The Basics: @mollygreene


Promo / Social Media Tips


5 Ways to Get Views and Reach People on YouTube: by Kallie Branciforte @teachable


7 Social Media Tips For Writers Who Want to Get Noticed: @easystartmkg @thewritelife


Promo / Websites


How writers can best optimize their About Me page: @Skytale_Writer


Publishing / Miscellaneous


Should You Ever Write For Free? @theladygreer


A 6-Step Guide to Breaking into the Sports Writing Business: @Kristen_E_Pope


How to win at writing competitions: @bethanyrscott@beprolifiko


“The tech that powers Bitcoin (could) transform…other industries” (including publishing): @Porter_Anderson


Why 1 Writer Unpublished His Old Work: by Topher Burk @IndieAuthorALLI


IngramSpark waives set-up fees through to end November: @TNPS10


Publishing / News / International Publishing


Frankfurt CEO Talk: Defending Freedom to Publish and Role of Publishers: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives


Publishing / Options / Traditional Publishing


Should You Self-Publish or Try to Get an Agent? 4 Questions Can Help you Decide: @ChuckSambuchino @TheIWSG


Publishing / Process / Formatting


Formatting Print Books with Word: @IanAndrewAuthor @IndieAuthorALLI


Publishing / Process / Legalities


A Copyright Mistake on ‘Night of the Living Dead’ Impacted the Zombie Genre for 50 Years: @kaptainkristian





To Pen Name or Not to Pen Name: @lidywilks


Pen Names: 5 Reasons they are a Bad Idea in the Digital Age: @annerallen


Publishing / Process / Translation


AmazonCrossing Translation Expands Submission Site to 14 Languages: @Porter_Anderson


Writing Craft / Arc


A Deep Dive Into the Hero’s Journey: @MelanieMarttila


Writing Craft / Characters / Development


Authentic Female Characters vs Gender-Swaps: @JoEberhardt


Writing Craft / Characters / Protagonists


Is Your Protagonist Too Lucky? @Janice_Hardy @MidGradeMafia


Writing Craft / Common Mistakes


How to Use Showing vs. Telling Effectively: @RMNSediting @10MinNovelists


The 7 Deadly Sins of Struggling Writers: @ChristophPaul_


How Writers Screw Up: @SPressfield


Writing Craft / Conflict


Literary Crisis: Why a Crisis Will Make Your Good Story Great: @joebunting


Why Your Story Conflict Isn’t Working (And How to Fix It): @Janice_Hardy


Depicting Internal Conflicts: by Chris Winkle @mythcreants


Writing Craft / Dialogue


Oversharing in Dialogue and Why It’s Not Good for Fiction Either: @Margo_L_Dill


Writing Craft / Diversity


Writing x Characters When You Aren’t x: @plotlinehotline


Writing Craft / Miscellaneous


Setting the Stakes in Storytelling: @sethjdickinson


What Cliffhangers Reveal About Impact: @p2p_editor


Plot vs. Character? by Josh Langston


Hiding What the Main Character Knows from the Reader: @SeptCFawkes


Is lack of reflection sabotaging your writing? @pubcoach


How to Dredge up the Memories You Want to Write About: @annkroeker


How to be a good writing workshop participant: by Meredith Quinn @TheWriterMag


The Innovative, Intuitive Way to Organize Your Novel’s Scenes: @CSLakin


3 Easy Ways to Write More Concisely: @writing_tips


5 Injustices in Superhero Stories: by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants


Writing Craft / Pacing


Writing: How to Pace a Scene: @Lindasclare


Writing Craft / POV


What is point of view in fiction writing? @LouiseHarnby


Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Research


Injury Plots: The Inciting Injury: @scriptmedic


Writing Craft / Punctuation and Grammar


12 Words Ending in -logue (or Is It -log?): @writing_tips


3 Examples of Mismatched Inflectional Endings: @writing_tips


Writing Craft / Revision


How to Kill Your Darlings (And What to Do with Them When They’re Dead): @NathanielTower


Writing Craft / Revisions / Critiques


How to create your Author “Pit Crew”: Beta Readers: @LoriKingBooks


Writing Craft / Tension


Grip-Lit: 5 Elements Your Story Must Include If You’re Writing the Next Gone Girl: @Jo_Furniss


Writing Craft / World-Building


Worldbuilding and the Labor of Food: by Joe M. McDermott @tordotcom


Writing Tools / Apps


Using Scrivener to revise your novel: @jasonbougger

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