Twitterific Writing Links

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

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Business / Miscellaneous


How to Quit Your Day Job to Write Full Time: @jasonbougger


Blockchain For Books: @IndieAuthorALLI


Looking for Professional Help with Your Book? Try Reedsy: @MJBowersock @ReedsyHQ


What’s a sample edit? Who does it help? And is it free? @LouiseHarnby


Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Terms Used by Writers: @KathySteinemann


How To Back Up Your Work Like An Author: by Paige Duke @standoutbooks


Conferences and Events / Miscellaneous


10 Things You Need to Know About Going to Conventions as a Writer: @johnhartness


London Book Fair Adds Authors Joanna Trollope and Jacqueline Wilson: @Porter_Anderson @FansofJWilson


Creativity and Inspiration / Goal setting


Things to Know Before You Set a Goal: @10MinNovelists


Your Best Writing Year Yet: Getting Started and Staying Motivated: @writingthrulife

Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration


One Essential Way to Boost Productivity: @JodyHedlund


100+ Creative Writing Exercises for Fiction Authors: @ReedsyHQ


Writing Prompts: 7 Inspirational Ideas to Spark Your Creative Writing: @DavidHSafford @write_practice


Story Ideas: The Complete Package or the Fragment: @SueBEdwards @womenonwriting


Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration / Reading as Writers


Tackling Your 2018 Reading Goals: @RDCwrites @RMFWriters


How to Read like a Writer: @DIYMFA


The 10 Best Places to Find Quality Short Fiction: @EmmanuelNataf @ReedsyHQ


Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Fitting in Writing


How Famous Authors Stay Inspired and Keep Writing: by Global English Editing @AlexJCavanaugh @TheIWSG


Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Writer’s Block


Overcoming Creative Procrastination: @sarahlynnereul @WritersRumpus


Perfectionism and Procrastination: by Crystal Otto @womenonwriting


Creativity and Inspiration / Writing Life


Taking Inventory of Your Creative Health: @FinishedPages


How to organize your books: @unclutterer


Where Do You Write? @denisebarnesuk @WomenWriters


7 Ways To Stay Positive As A Writer: @sara_crawford @thecreativepenn


Refueling Your Creativity–How to Plan in Recovery Time as You Write (and Finish) Your Book: @writeabook


Taking Writing breaks, especially when you don’t want to: @whimsicallyours


Getting into Editing as a Writer: by Alex J. Coyne @hopeclark


Becoming a Healthy Writer (podcast): @DanBlank @thecreativepenn


How Writers Can Stop Holding Themselves Back: @losapala


5 Questions to Help You Find Your Creative Writing Sweet Spot: @colleen_m_story


5 Morning Habits to Add to Your Writing Routine: @emi1y_morgan


Genres / Fantasy


Using Your Constructed Language Without Ruining Your Story: by Chris Winkle @mythcreants


History for Fantasy Writers: Barber Surgeons: by E.L. Skip Knox @mythicscribes


Genres / Horror


On the Trope of the ‘Final Girl’ in Horror Movies and Books: @riley_sager @SignatureReads


Genres / Literary Fiction


What Star Wars Learned From Literary Fiction: @mikechenwriter @tordotcom


Genres / Memoir


The 16 Best Books on Writing Memoir: by Meghan McCullough @SignatureReads


Genres / Mystery


Breaks in narrative in crime fiction: @mkinberg


The Secret of a Successful Mystery: Making the Reader a Participant: @SeptCFawkes


Character flaws as an element in crime fiction: @mkinberg


Genres / Non-Fiction


Promote Your Nonfiction Book with Online Groups: @NonfictionAssoc


Genres / Romance


Keeping the Bedroom Door Closed on Romantic Scenes: @RayneHall


Genres / Screenwriting


How Google Is Killing the Independent Movie Industry: @cassianelwes @newsweek


What 1 Writer Learned About Writing Romantic Subplots from “I, Tonya” and “Downsizing”: @dougeboch


Promo / Blogging


How to find stats for your WordPress blog: @WordDreams


Promo / Book Reviews


Is There Such a Thing as a Good Book Review? @egabbert @ElectricLit


5 Creative Ways to Highlight Your Book Reviews and Sell More Books: @Bookgal


Promo / Miscellaneous


Improve Your Skill Set: Best Single-Strategy Marketing Books for Authors: @cksyme


8 Ways for Authors to Promote & Launch Their Books: by Marquis Williamson @theindiepubmag


Promo / Newsletters


Why a Newsletter is One of the Most Important Book Marketing Tools You Have: @Bookgal


Promo / Social Media Tips


11 Exercises for Introverted Writers Working on Promo: @CaballoFrances


Promo / Websites


How to Use and Understand SEO as a Beginner: @HelloMorganTimm @teachable


Optimum Author Website Content for Media Response: @BuildYourBrandA @BookWorksNYC


Publishing / Miscellaneous


France’s Arnaud Nourry and that ‘Stupid Product’ Description of Ebooks: @Porter_Anderson @ArnaudNourry


Self-Censorship in Publishing: World Industry Leaders on a Subtle, Growing Challenge: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives


Serial Box Has New Funding for Audio Bundling as a ‘Publishing Studio’: @molbarton @porter_anderson


PEN America Names Close to $350,000 in Literary Honors for 2018: @Porter_Anderson


Publishing / News / International Publishing


Readers to Choose the ‘Golden Man Booker Prize’: 50 Years of Winners: @Porter_Anderson @ManBookerPrize


The UK’s Republic of Consciousness Prize for Names its 2018 Shortlist: @Porter_Anderson @neilgriffiths


International Prize for Arabic Fiction Names Six 2018 Shortlisted Novels: @Porter_Anderson


British Book Awards Shortlist for Independent Bookshop of the Year: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives


Publishing / Options / Traditional Publishing


Cover Letters: Advice from a Literary Magazine Editor: @gooddirt


Publishing / Process / Distribution


Updates on the Successes and Failures of Platforms and Formats:


Writing Craft / Beginnings


Flog a Pro: would you pay to turn the first page of this bestseller? @RayRhamey @WriterUnboxed


How to Lose Readers: Not Starting in Media Res: @byStevenRamirez


Real Life Diagnostics: Would You Keep Reading this Fantasy Opening? By Maria D’Marco


The First Act: Nailing Your Novel’s Opening Chapters: @kristen_kieffer


Writing Craft / Characters / Antagonists


Five Underpowered Antagonists: by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants


Writing Craft / Characters / Development


Personalizing Your Character’s Emotional Wound: @JerryBJenkins


9 Tips for Crafting A Large (And Well-Developed) Cast of Characters: @_HannahHeath


Writing Craft / Common Mistakes


5 Key Ways to Balance Internal Monologue with Pitfalls to Avoid: @JordanDane


Top 3 Risky Moves for Writers: @PaulaSMunier @CareerAuthors


How to Lose Readers by Abandoning Your Protagonist: @byStevenRamirez


Writing Craft / Diversity


How To Write Diverse Characters: @AlexAndersBooks @thecreativepenn


When Diversity Is Bad: from Tropes are Tools


Writing Craft / Lessons from Books and Film


Learning Narrative Structure from Video Games: by Sarah Maria Griffin @tordotcom


Writing Craft / Miscellaneous


Discovering your story: @ShanDitty


Internal Monologue: by John Gilstrap @killzoneauthors


Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Plotting


Tips for better subplots: @KayKeppler


Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Research


Writing About Eating Disorders: Bulimia Nervosa: @SloanTamar


3 Tips for Research Management: @RobinRWrites


Writing Craft / Punctuation and Grammar


3 Types of Redundancy to Avoid: @writing_tips


Writing Craft / Revision


10 Extra Ways To Proofread Your Writing Like A Boss: @LesleyVos @writerswrite


The Different Kinds of Editing: A Breakdown (with Examples): @jennienash


Writing Craft / Revisions / Critiques


How to think laterally about editor feedback: @raimeygallant


Writing Craft / Series


Keeping a Series Interesting Twelve Books In:


Writing Craft / Settings and Description


Describing Food: a Worksheet: @EvaDeverell


Writing Craft / Voice


How Alice B. Toklas Found her Voice Through Food: @JustinDSpring


Writing Tools / Miscellaneous


Speech to Text: How to Use Dictation Software Like a Pro: @BryanJCollins


Writing Tools / Thesauri


Character Development: Occupation Thesaurus Entry: Animal Rescue Worker: @AngelaAckerman

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