Twitterific Writing Links
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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Business / Miscellaneous
Confidence, Connection & Convergence: Self-Publishing Review 2018: @OrnaRoss @IndieAuthorALLI
Editing: How to create compelling editing quotations: @LouiseHarnby
The Fear and Joy of Writing on Proposal: @maryannmarlowe @WomenWriters
Tokyo’s new Bunkitsu Bookstore With an Admission Fee: @Porter_Anderson @bunkitsu_rpng
China Bestsellers for November: The ‘Double Eleven’ Sales Boost: @Porter_Anderson
Conferences and Events / Miscellaneous
Tips for Oral Storytelling: @helpfulsnowman
Creativity and Inspiration / Goal setting
The Five Biggest New Year’s Resolution Mistakes and How to Avoid Them: @WriteNowCoach
Trends For Authors And Creative Goal Setting 2019: @thecreativepenn
Share Your Writing Goals to Increase Chances of Success: @colleen_m_story
About Those New Year’s Goals: @RachelleGardner
Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration / Reading as Writers
9 Mysteries Set in The Immediate Aftermath of WWI: @jpwrites1 @CrimeReads
How Book Maps Led to One Author’s Love of Fiction: @VaughnRoycroft @WriterUnboxed
The Good, The Bad, and The Delicious: 20 Unexpected Literary Cookbooks: @knownemily @lithub
Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Fitting in Writing
3 Tips from an Engineer to Help You Write Efficiently: @BMWtheCreative
Creativity and Inspiration / Writing Life
A defense of creative writing in the age of standardized testing: @JustinParmenter
Jonathan Franzen’s 10 Rules for Novelists: @lithub
Why Writing Friends are Important: @jodimeadows
Tsundoku (Books piled everywhere): @austinkleon
How to write if you have a long commute behind the wheel: @GoIntoTheStory
What One Person Can Do to Get People Reading: @mattgrantwriter @lithub
Writing and the Creative Life: Why Creative People May Feel More Anxiety: @GoIntoTheStory
Creating Priority Lists When Everything Seems Important: @TheLeighShulman
Is A Writing Retreat Right For You? by Paige Duke @standoutbooks
Tips to Help Organize 2019 with Calendars and Apps:
Genres / Memoir
Jaime Lowe’s 8 Rules For Writing Memoirs: @kicklikeagirl1 @Writers_Write
Genres / Miscellaneous
What is the “Core” for Your Genre? @davidfarland
Genres / Screenwriting
Script To Screen: “The Last of the Mohicans”: @GoIntoTheStory
Promo / Blogging
Get Your Blog Ready for 2019: @EdieMelson
12 Strategies for Blogging Your Way to Expert Status: @NinaAmir
Promo / Miscellaneous
Your 2019 Book Marketing Plan, Month by Month: @NewShelvesBooks @BookWorksNYC
7 Ways to Use Bookmarks for Marketing Your Book: @KarenHWhiting @EdieMelson
Create your author mood board in five minutes: @helpingauthors1
Promo / Platforms
What Is a Writer Platform and How Do You Build One? @ChadRAllen
Promo / Podcasts
3 Things To Know About Podcasts When You Know Nothing: @Writers_Write by Christopher Dean
Promo / Social Media Tips
Bookstagram for Indie Authors: Strategy: by Laura Hartley @BookWorksNYC
Promo / Speaking
Using Props While Making a Book Presentation: @AuthorCathyLamb
Publishing / Miscellaneous
Books to Film: Josh Malerman’s Debut ‘Bird Box’ Lands on Netflix: @Porter_Anderson @JoshMalerman
Tips for Winning Writing Contests: @FinishedPages @hopeclark
Winter Issues: ‘Beyond the Book’ Looks at 2018 in Review: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @BeyondTheBook
Be Careful Inputting Your Metadata on Amazon: by Gordon Long @IndiesUnlimited
How to find your perfect co-writer (dead or alive): @LuWrites
Copyrighted Treasures Move Into the Public Domain, on a ‘Snowy Evening’: @Porter_Anderson @DukeCSPD
Publishing / Options / Self-Publishing
Self-publishing Role Models for 2018: @IndieAuthorALLI
Publishing / Process / Legalities
Public Domain Day Is Coming: On January 1st, 2019, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain for the First Time in 21 Years: @jdmagness @openculture
Publishing / Process / Self-Publishing
5 Questions on the Book Production and Marketing Matrix: @JFbookman
Writing Craft / Beginnings
Five Strategies for Getting Started: @davidfarland
Writing Craft / Characters / Arc
Character Arc and Narrative Arc: @VictoriaMixon
Writing Craft / Characters / Development
Don’t Make Your Characters Do the Impossible: @ZoeMMcCarthy
4 Steps for Writing Realistic Protagonists Who Are Nothing Like You: by Donna Levin @WritersDigest
Character Building with the Enneagram: @RDCwrites @RMFWriters
Writing Craft / Characters / Protagonists
Creating Likeable Protagonists: @davidfarland
Writing Craft / Characters / Supporting Characters
The 17 Best (and Worst) Cartoon Sidekicks of the 1980s: @cloudy_vision @tordotcom
Writing Craft / Common Mistakes
Five Common Storytelling Mistakes in the Pursuit of Social Justice: by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants
Writing Craft / Dialogue
8 Ways to Make Your Characters Sound Distinctive: @LauraDiSilverio
Writing Craft / Endings
When Should A Story End? by PJ Parrish @killzoneauthors
Writing Craft / Humor
In Defense of Puns: @JamesGeary @parisreview
Writing Craft / Miscellaneous
How to Level-Up Our Writing: @craicer @JamiGold
Don’t Overload Your Readers With Your Message: @writing_tips
Tips for More Meaningful Stories: @writingandsuch
10 Non-Writing Things You Can Do To Improve Your Writing: @wendypmiller
Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Plotting
The Dual Plot Structure That Makes Stories a Success: by Chris Winkle @mythcreants
How to Choose Your Story’s Plot Points: @KMWeiland
Writing Craft / Punctuation and Grammar
‘Flier’ or ‘Flyer’? @GrammarGirl
Pronoun Order: @GrammarGirl
Three Simple Rules for Pluralizing Names: @HopeTDougherty
Writing Craft / Revision
Read your way into editing your novel: @MsRachaelBlok @CurtisBrown
See Oscar Wilde’s Handwritten Edits to The Picture of Dorian Gray: @lithub
Writing Craft / Revisions / Critiques
3 Mistakes Writing Groups Make and How to Fix Them: @TCKPublishing
Writing Craft / Settings and Description
How do you Describe a Place? 6 Setting Tips: @nownovel
Writing Craft / Voice
Ask the Editor: Tips for Identifying Your Story’s Narrative Voice: @writingrefinery @DIYMFA
Writing Tools / Apps
Keeping Track of Everything in Scrivener with Metadata: @Gwen_Hernandez
Writing Tools / Resources
10 Podcasts every author needs in their life: @sacha_black
14 of the Best Online Writing Communities for Aspiring Authors: @ReedsyHQ
Writing Tools / Spreadsheets
How to Spreadsheet Your Novel: @StoryGrid
Uncategorized
The links I shared the last couple of weeks, plus my links that got the most engagement on Twitter in 2018:
Show Don’t Tell Explained: Examples of Turning Bad Writing into Great Writing: @TCKPublishing
Remainder of the Top Tweets for 2018…the links I shared that received the most engagement on Twitter:
How to Fix a Plot Hole in Your Novel (From 14 Writing Experts): http://ow.ly/f1cR30mLx0M @writingcookbook #TopTweets2018
Rights Roundup: A Handful of Titles for the Holidays: http://ow.ly/EonV30mOqat @Porter_Anderson @malusken @GuillaumePitron @SiriPettersen #TopTweets2018
A defense of creative writing in the age of standardized testing: http://ow.ly/k2Tw30n8KCf @JustinParmenter #wkb31
3 Tips for Improving Show, Don’t Tell: http://ow.ly/PXZB30mCVNr @KMWeiland #TopTweets2018
Gave up on NaNoWriMo? Try a gentler, year-round writing challenge: http://ow.ly/KCxp30mUUTN @inkyelbows #TopTweets2018
9 Writing Tips for Beginners: http://ow.ly/RJ1r30mTwMZ @writingcookbook #TopTweets2018
Public Domain Day Is Coming: On January 1st, 2019, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain for the First Time in 21 Years: http://ow.ly/z0p830n8Gqf @jdmagness @openculture #wkb5c
On The Many Visions of Voyeurism in Crime Fiction: http://ow.ly/1QhE30mM4FR @ClaireFuller2 @CrimeReads #TopTweets2018
What Writing Fanfiction Taught Me as an Editor: http://ow.ly/CsAa30mCozO @writersyndrome @UncannyMagazine #TopTweets2018
How to Use Swag to Support Your Book Marketing: http://ow.ly/CgjB30mTxOs @proflangley @JaneFriedman #TopTweets2018
How To Define Your Character’s Narrative: http://ow.ly/VW4V30mUBKI @Writers_Write #TopTweets2018
6 Iconic Literary Road Trips in the US To Inspire Your Inner Creative: http://ow.ly/Ci3W30mLwSj @WomenWriters #TopTweets2018
The Top Writing Links From Last Week Are On Twitterific:
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