Twitterific Writing Links

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

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Business / Miscellaneous


Estate Planning for Authors: @mlbuchman @thecreativepenn


Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration


Hear All of Mozart in a Free 127-Hour Playlist: @colinmarshall @openculture


5 Ways to Inspire Your Writing: @lornafaith


Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration / Reading as Writers


5 Books that Rewrite Magic, Myths, and Ballads: by Jane Yolen @tordotcom


Creativity and Inspiration / Motivation


7 Ways to Boost Your Creative Motivation: @JadieJones1 @colleen_m_story

Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Writing Quickly


3 Ways to Boost Your Word Count Every Writing Session: @Janice_Hardy


Creativity and Inspiration / Writing Life


Calendars for Productivity:


Hey, Prospective Authors: You Have Plenty of Time. Just Keep Writing: by Chris Lough and @cloudy_vision


Writers need personal time off: @RosanneBane


Genres / Horror


Setting the Rules in Horror: by How to Fight Write


Genres / Mystery


Mystery writing: the importance of recurring regular characters: @mkinberg


Crime fiction: when characters don’t see others as they really are: @mkinberg


Genres / Picture Books


5 Things to Remember when Writing for Children: @scottishbktrust @AlanDapre


Genres / Poetry


Teaching Orphaned Girls to Be Heard Through Poetry: by Spencer Reece @ElectricLit


Promo / Ads


How Indie Authors Can Sell More Books with a Bookbub Deal: @Bookgal


Promo / Miscellaneous


How to Create Killer Graphics to Promote Your Writing: @EmilyWenstrom


Tips for Increasing Your Sales Rank on Amazon: @kikimojo


14 Ways Authors Can Cross-Promote Each Other’s Books: @DianaUrban


Promo / Platforms


How Beginning Writers Can Build a Platform: Benefits of Branding: @tessaemilyhall


Promo / Speaking


Step-by-Step Guide to Booking Speaking Engagements: @TCKPublishing


Promo / Websites


Unpublished Writers and Websites: Should You Have One and What Should It Say? @JaneFriedman


Publishing / Miscellaneous


Trends in UK, US Holiday Book Sales: @Porter_Anderson


Costa’s Book Award: Five Winners in the UK, One To Win Book of the Year: @Porter_Anderson


Disney Publishing Opens Sixth Annual Campaign to Benefit First Book: @Porter_Anderson


Publishing / News / International Publishing


British Book Awards Add New Honors: Illustrators, Authors, Audiobooks: @Porter_Anderson


One Analyst’s 2018 Look-Ahead: Russian Digital Content Set to Grow Fast: by Eugene Gerden @pubperspectives


Publishing / Options / Self-Publishing


Why You Should Be More Like @andyweirauthor : @jehunter5811


Publishing / Options / Traditional Publishing


How Long to Hear Back from a Publisher? @LisaTener


Publishing / Options / Traditional Publishing / Pitches


How to Write a Killer One-Line Hook for your Book or Screenplay: @patverducci


Publishing / Options / Traditional Publishing / Querying


10 Writing Submission Strategies to Get You Published: @manzanitafire


Publishing / Options / Traditional Publishing / Rejections


Why Rejection on a First Book Can Be a Blessing: @HannahFergesen


Rules of Writing: How to Create Your Own Rules: @RuthanneReid


Publishing / Process / Legalities


Canada Activates Its Copyright Modernization Act Five-Year Review: @Porter_Anderson


Freedom To Publish: Henry Holt Defies Trump Order on ‘Fire and Fury’: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives


Publishing / Process / Services to Avoid


Is that contest or writing award legit? A list of ratings: @JohnDoppler @IndieAuthorALLI


Publishing / Process / Translation


6 Reasons to Read Translated Literature: @NickyHarman_cn @WritersDigest


Writing Craft / Beginnings


Real Life Diagnostics: Is This Opening Working? @Janice_Hardy


Writing Craft / Characters / Antagonists


Start With the Villain: @SPressfield


Writing Craft / Characters / Development


How to Be Your Characters – Inside and Out: @JaymeMansfield


Writing Craft / Characters / Protagonists


Writing Active Character Reaction: @Kid_Lit


Writing Craft / Characters / Supporting Characters


The Plight of Cop #3 (Make Minor Characters Add to Scenes): @JeffCohenwriter


Writing Craft / Common Mistakes


3 Ways To Get Rid of a ‘Writing Tic’: @rsmollisonread


Most Common Writing Mistakes: Purple Prose: @KMWeiland


Mary Sue and Why Readers Hate Her: @KristenLambTX


Writing Craft / Dialogue


Tips for Writing Dialogue in Fiction: @GinnyWiehardt


Writing Craft / Hooks


The Impossible Choice: A Surefire Way to Hook Your Readers: @Janice_Hardy


Writing Craft / Lessons from Books and Film


5 Writing Tips You Can Learn About Tension From “The Lion King”: by Jonathan Vars


Writing Craft / Miscellaneous


10 Quick, Innovative Questions For Your Female Characters: @Bang2write


How to Make a Story Flow: @AJHumpage


Writing By Design: A New Way To Envision Storytelling: @DIYMFA


How To Write About Video Games In Fiction: @FredBobJohn


Why You Shouldn’t Listen to Writing Tips Blogs: @_HannahHeath


Writing Craft / POV


(Too) Close Third Person: by Jeanne Kisacky @WriterUnboxed


Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Plotting


Second Pinch Point: @ml_keller


Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Research


How to Write Horses Wrong: 8 Red Flags: @DanKoboldt


First Aid and Field Dressings for Writers: @slbscifi @DanKoboldt


6 ways research can turn into plagiarism (and how to avoid it): by Gail Radley @TheWriterMag


Writing Craft / Punctuation and Grammar


3 Cases of Missing Words and Phrases: @writing_tips


Parallel Structure and Parallelism: @NanReinhardt


Writing Craft / Revision


Rewriting: Fixing It Up: @Lindasclare


19 Self-Editing Tips For Your Writing: @WordDreams


Writing Craft / Scenes


2 Ways To Be Sure Your Scene Really Matters: @StephMorrill


Writing Craft / Settings and Description


Writing Descriptive Sentences: 6 Simple Rules: @nownovel


A Look at Masterful Character Description: @LiveWriteThrive


Writing Craft / Word Crafting


The Sentence That Folds Neatly in Half: by Jeff Dolven @parisreview


Other Ways to Say “Use”: A Word List for Writers: @KathySteinemann


Writing Tools / Apps


View Your Research in Composition Mode: @aprildavila


Writing Tools / Resources


Best of the Best: Free Resources to Power Up Your Writing: @AngelaAckerman


Writing Tools / Thesauri


Occupational Thesaurus Entry: Interpreter: @beccapuglisi

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