Twitterific Writing Links

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

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Business / Miscellaneous

How to Start Your Freelance Writing Career: @TheLeighShulman
Reading as an Editor: @DeanWesleySmith
Using IngramSpark for Print Preorders:
First PublisHer’s Dinner: Working to Support Women in Publishing: @HannahSJohnson @pubperspectives
How to Write a Book for the Wrong Book Market: @LisaTener
How to Find a Mentor: 7 Steps to Achieving Big Goals: @TCKPublishing
Business Musings: Learning, The Future, and CES (Contracts/Negotiations): @KristineRusch
Choosing a title for your novel: @AuthorMarilene

Conferences and Events / Miscellaneous

Wellcome’s 10th Anniversary Shortlist Names Authors from Five Nations: @Porter_Anderson @wellcomebkprize
FILI’s ‘Happy’ Fifth Anniversary of Finland’s Guest of Honor: @HannahSJohnson @FinnishLit @pubperspectives
The British Book Awards: 2019 Books of the Year Shortlists: @Porter_Anderson

Creativity and Inspiration / Goal setting

How to Use Life’s Milestones to Achieve Your Writing Goals: @donnabarker @pbackwriter
13 ways to make your writing goals more successful: @pubcoach

Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration / Reading as Writers

The Terrifying Changeling: 6 Thrillers: @cjtudor @CrimeReads
How To Tell If You’re Crushing on a Book: @nataliezutter @tordotcom
How Five Favorite Childhood Mysteries Stack Up Today: @HesterAuthor @CrimeReads
Why We Hunger for Novels About Food: @crystallyn @lithub

Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Fitting in Writing

Getting more done in less time: @AuthorMarilene

Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Writer’s Block

Multiple Writing Projects: Avoiding Resistance Roadblocks: @RosanneBane

Creativity and Inspiration / Success

Why So Many Beginning Writers Never Become Successful: @MegDowell

Creativity and Inspiration / Writing Life

Why you should reward yourself, frequently: @pubcoach
How Writers Can Think Differently About Their Work: @Frank_McKinley
Is it worth having a tidy place to write? @pubcoach
“Why I read aloud to my teenagers”: by Giulia Rhodes @GuardianBooks
22 Unorthodox Methods For Tidying Your Book Collection: @helpfulsnowman
9 Reasons to Quit Writing: @RachelleGardner
The Challenge of Book-Tour Travel as a Non-Binary Author: @sealln @lithub
4 Ways to Create (And Maintain) a Writing Habit: @batwood
How to Overcome the Loneliness of Being a Writer: @BryanJCollins

Genres / Fantasy

7 Online Resources for Creating Fantasy Languages: by Arianna Lemont @mythicscribes
Things to Consider When Writing Nonhuman Characters: by Sandy Dragon

Genres / Historical

Choosing the Best Protagonist for Historical Fiction: @pcalhenry @CareerAuthors

Genres / Literary Fiction

Book Marketing Strategies for Literary Fiction Authors: @JaneFriedman @IndieAuthorALLI

Genres / Mystery

Secrets as an element in crime fiction: @mkinberg
30 Scene Ideas for Mystery & Suspense Subplots: @EvaDeverell
How to Make Your Mystery Paranormal: by Sandra Gardner
14 Rom Coms That Are Actually Pretty Noir: @DwyerMurphy @CrimeReads

Genres / Non-Fiction

Create Your Nonfiction Book Quickly and Easily: @WriteNowCoach

Genres / Romance

Tips for Creating More Than a Love Story: @mrushingwalker @StoryGrid
The Business of the Romance Novel: @FarahColette @JSTOR_Daily

Genres / Screenwriting

You Talkin’ To Me? How To Write Better Talking Head Scenes: by Mark Sevi @CreativeScreen

Genres / Short Stories

Is Your Fiction a Sprint or a Marathon? — Short vs. Long Form: @richardgthomas3 @CareerAuthors

Genres / Young Adult

A Field Guide to Six Infectious YA Clichés: by Bunny @mythcreants

Promo / Ads

Advanced Facebook Advertising and Marketing Strategies For Authors: @RicardoFayet @ReedsyHQ @IndieAuthorALLI

Promo / Blogging

How to Run Your Own Online Book Tour and Save Money: @Bookgal

Promo / Metadata

What is Metadata? Use Keywords and Categories to Boost Book Sales: @DaveChesson @IndieAuthorALLI

Promo / Miscellaneous

How to Build Book Marketing Strategies into Your Novel Before You Publish: @Bookgal @IndieReader
Sell your Books Long after Launch: How To Boost Your Backlist: @bryancohenbooks @IndieAuthorALLI
5 Outreach Ideas for Authors: by Melissa Chan @DIYMFA
Does the Superfan Exist? Should You Feel Bad if You’ve Never Met One? @annerallen

Promo / Newsletters

How to Keep Your Newsletter from Sucking: @jakazimer @RMFWriters

Promo / Platforms

How to Build Your Author Brand and Increase Sales (Video): @AGBillig @IndieAuthorALLI

Promo / Websites

The Importance of Having a (Well-Designed) Author Website: @michelle_balge @thecreativepenn

Publishing / Miscellaneous

“Five Things I Want Publishers to Know About Innovation”: @TheWritPlatform
Achieving the “It Factor” in Publishing: @tessaemilyhall
The Jimmy Fallon Effect: How the ‘The Tonight Show’ Boosts Book Sales: @Porter_Anderson @FallonTonight @Jamiegranet

Publishing / News / International Publishing

IPA’s Sustainable Development Goals Book Club Welcomes Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Others: @Porter_Anderson @IntPublishers
Words Without Borders March: ‘How Political Borders Shift’: @Porter_Anderson @wwborders
7.7 million audiobooks users in France. 51% are first-timers. French audiobook listeners read more print books than regular readers: @TNPS10
Emirates Publishers Association at 10: Driving Books’ Fast Progress in the Arab World: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
Today at Tech Forum in Canada: Taking Advantage of Change: @CarlaJDouglas @pubperspectives
Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2019 Winners: ‘World-Class Thinkers and Authors’: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
Georgian Publishers Support an Independent Copyright Association: @Porter_Anderson

Publishing / Options / Self-Publishing

3 Reasons to Self-Publish: @WriteToSell
Why 1 Writer Chose to Self-Publish: @evans_writer @RMFWriters

Publishing / Process / Book Design

5 Tips From a Graphic Designer on Creating an Impactful Book Cover: @kiss_creative @NaNoWriMo

Publishing / Process / Legalities

Copyright Page Templates: Sample Copyright Language You Can Use: @TCKPublishing



How to Create a Pen Name: @TCKPublishing

Writing Craft / Beginnings

First Page Critique:What Color Is Your Story? by PJ Parrish @killzoneauthors

Writing Craft / Characters / Protagonists

Let’s Break Stuff: Passive Characters: @StoryEmpire

Writing Craft / Common Mistakes

Telling Words That Often Spell Trouble in Our Writing: @Janice_Hardy
Get Rid of Your Crutch Words: @Janice_Hardy

Writing Craft / Conflict

The importance of narrative conflict: @Catkcho

Writing Craft / Diversity

Writing X Characters When You Aren’t X: by Bucket Siler

Writing Craft / Flashback and Back Story

Avoiding Info-Dumps: @Author_J_White

Writing Craft / Hooks

What Writers Need to Know About Hooks: @Janice_Hardy

Writing Craft / Lessons from Books and Film

What Bryan Cranston Can Teach Writers: @jamesscottbell

Writing Craft / Miscellaneous

Gratuitous Depictions of Bullying Are Now on Our Hit List: by Chris Winkle
To Filter or Not to Filter: by TD Storm
Writing Tips from Blake Snyder’s ‘Save the Cat’: @AuthorMarilene
The Benefits of Hearing Your Book Read Aloud: @dmassenzio
Writing Characters That Are ‘Smarter’ Than You: @MukherjeeRheea @WriterUnboxed
Writing for Every Type of Reader: @CindyDevoted @EdieMelson

Writing Craft / Pacing

Critique: How to Use Paragraph Breaks to Guide the Reader’s Experience: @KMWeiland

Writing Craft / POV

A Distinctive Narrative Voice: @AJHumpage

Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Outlining

How to Write a Novel Without An Outline: @DeanWesleySmith @IndieAuthorALLI
Writing a Reverse Outline: @AmrenOrtega

Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Plotting

How to Write a Novel: Tips For Visual Thinkers: by The Caffeine Book Warrior
Fiction Therapy—What’s Your Story’s Problem? @jimdempsey @WriterUnboxed
The Six-Figure Master Fiction Plot: @LMacNaughton

Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Research

Common Misconceptions About Artificial Intelligence: @bentaylordata @DanKoboldt
Writing Tips: Digital Forensics for Screen Writers and Novelists: @cjonsecurity @thecreativepenn

Writing Craft / Revision

Words to Consider Cutting from Your Story: by Bucket Siler

Writing Craft / Scenes

How to Advance Your Plot with Careful Scene Design ~ 5 Steps: @LiveWriteThrive
Why Do Boring Scenes Start With “Hello”? @standoutbooks
Coming Up With Scene Ideas: @writingandsuch

Writing Craft / Tension

Secret-Keepers: Generate Page-Turning, Nerve-Shredding Tension: @KristenLambTX
Writing Macro and Micro Tension: @Lindasclare

Writing Craft / Tropes

How ‘Friends’ Makes Character Archetypes Look Easy: @Bang2write

Writing Craft / Word Crafting

Ways of seeing: 11 poets to help you polish your prose: @Roz_Morris @joenutt_author

Writing Tools / Apps

4 Fantastic Features & Plugins for the New WordPress: @Julie_Glover

Writing Tools / Resources

How Do You Learn the Craft of Writing Fiction? @SnowflakeGuy

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