Twitterific

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week.

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Have a great week!

A publisher with series criteria and whether you should pitch all the books when querying: http://bit.ly/NIsbfc @behlerpublish

Tips for bookstore events: http://bit.ly/PMJW0T @kalayna

Creative writing *can* be taught: http://bit.ly/PMKa8i @GuardianBooks

Penelope Trunk interviewed after choosing self-pub instead of trad.: http://bit.ly/NDP3Ms @penelopetrunk @laurahazardowen @Porter_Anderson

When your book doesn't sell: http://bit.ly/PMKjIW @79SemiFinalist

Tips for Dealing with Bad Book Reviews: http://bit.ly/PMKtjw @goblinwriter

The Origins of Creative Insight & Why You Need Grit: http://bit.ly/PML2tw

An agent on the new contractual language she's seeing from publishers: http://janefriedman.com/2012/07/19/writing-on-the-ether-47/#5 @rachellegardner @Porter_Anderson

How to Cultivate Creativity: What Science Teaches Us About Freeing the Mind: http://bit.ly/MiGW7d

How to Blog a Finished Novel and Land a Traditional Contract: http://bit.ly/MiH9Hv @NinaAmir

DRM, Pricing and How to Help Piracy End Itself: http://bit.ly/MiHdqK @pubperspectives

An editor looks at memorable titles: http://bit.ly/MiHpGu

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Turns 150: http://bit.ly/MiHvhb @galleycat

How Your Day Job Is Preparing You For Your Writing Career: http://bit.ly/MiHFFr @krissybrady

Reading With An Agenda: http://bit.ly/MiHKJg @mooderino

Worldbuilding--gender roles: http://bit.ly/MiHSs7 @juliettewade

A literary writer tackles gritty writing and its challenges: http://bit.ly/Ml4kzP @_JoyCastro

How to Build a Platform and Get Noticed in a Noisy World: http://bit.ly/Ml4reI @smexaminer

Making Money From Paperbacks: http://bit.ly/Ml4xmy @davidgaughran

Writing Series: The Cliffhanger Dilemma: http://bit.ly/Ml4N53 @erin_bowman

10 sites with free images: http://bit.ly/Ml4V4x @amberrisme

Your 1st ideas are probably not your best ones: http://bit.ly/Ml5awv @nataliewhipple

4 tips for getting more traffic to your author website: http://bit.ly/Ml5ATG @LynnettesBooks @JFBookman

Is your conflict strong enough? Could you have too much? http://bit.ly/Ml6ZcI @karalennox

Promote Your Book on a Budget: 20 Thrifty Ways to Get Your Writing Out There: http://bit.ly/Ml8yri @chrisrobley

3 Steps to Recycling Your Half-Finished Novels: http://bit.ly/Ml8Azm @joebunting

How not to be a successful self-pub author: http://bit.ly/N28t1z @ava_jae

Author Bios: Concise, Relevant and Fascinating: http://bit.ly/MlaPTk @fictionnotes

4 Ways to Discover More About Your Audience With Social Media: http://bit.ly/Mlb6pi @smexaminer

Having it all: Life as a Working Mother and Author: http://bit.ly/N28TVF @shawnarhill @womenwriters

Profanity in fantasy fiction: http://bit.ly/MlbdkL

The 10 Most Bizarre Pieces Of Literary Merch: http://bit.ly/N2bgI3 @kimber_regator

Why We Shy Away from Writing Good Conflict and What We Can Do about It: http://bit.ly/MleIYt

Strong Nouns and Verbs: http://bit.ly/N2bn6s @livewritethrive

If We Remember More, Can We Read Deeper– and Create Better? http://bit.ly/MyPGJz @mkonnikova

7 Networking Tips for Authors: http://bit.ly/LTUmI2 @thecreativepenn @chrisrobley

3 Steps to Pinpoint Your Readers' Favorite Hangouts: http://bit.ly/MH5zxF @duolit

15 Stock Characters — and How to Restock Them: http://bit.ly/LTUirU @writing_tips

How To Publish Your Book On The Kindle And iPad: http://bit.ly/LXiObw @bubblecow

5 Stages of Editing Grief: http://bit.ly/LXiRnN @LyndaRYoung

Crafting Natural-Sounding Internal Thoughts: http://bit.ly/LHAgTh @Janice_Hardy

Tips for making a book trailer: http://bit.ly/QTTF3A @beth_barany

Twitter Cheat Sheet for Writers: http://bit.ly/QUwNRs @jasonboog @galleycat

How To Write A Successful Book Proposal: http://bit.ly/QUxY3B @bubblecow

12 Most Fundamentally American Literary Works: http://bit.ly/LxZzsX @12Most

8 tips for increasing Facebook followers: http://bit.ly/Oima73 @KristinNador

Writers pick the best literary sex scenes: http://bit.ly/Ll7zfz @guardianbooks

Learning from "The Dark Knight" (spoilers): http://bit.ly/Ll7Jng

An author's thoughts on writing quickly: http://bit.ly/Ll8gWe @ChuckWendig

Show, Don't Tell, in Your Opening: http://bit.ly/Ll8qwG @janice_hardy

Promoting Your Book At Publishing Events: http://bit.ly/Ll8wEs @thecreativepenn

5 Problems with Parallelism: http://bit.ly/Ll8AUR @writing_tips

Strategies for Overcoming Writer's Block: http://bit.ly/Ll8IDL @ThereseWalsh

The cons of series writing: http://bit.ly/Ll92m5 @JeffSalyards

More to consider when deciding whether to trad. publish or self-pub: http://bit.ly/Ll9LUb @susanspann

How to Use Touch to Pull Your Reader Into Your Novel: http://bit.ly/Ll9Qr5 @marcykennedy

Talent vs. Learning: Do You Have to Be Born a Writer? http://bit.ly/NwfFNK @KMWeiland

Blogging – should authors go self-hosted or not? 2 bloggers who don't: http://bit.ly/NwfQsu @dirtywhitecandy

Learning from Spider-Man (spoilers): http://bit.ly/Nwg6b2

Document Look Good? Back it up: http://bit.ly/Nwgczn @YAHighway

Benefits of Multi-Genre Writing: http://bit.ly/NwgkyP @ssvik @womenwriters

11 ways to rekindle your creative spark: http://bit.ly/NwguWP

Prologues: Keep or Cut? A critique of one manuscript's prologue: http://bit.ly/NwgDcT @janice_hardy

POV Choices: http://bit.ly/NwgK8d @theresastevens

10 of the best wills in literature: http://bit.ly/Nwh3Aa @guardianbooks

Create a strong ending with a book jacket structure: http://bit.ly/NwjGBK @write_practice

The complex link between pride and creative achievement: http://bit.ly/NuVPFP @sbkaufman

The Key to Descriptive Writing: Specificity: http://bit.ly/P8lsy3 @glencstrathy

Your outline doesn't have to be perfect: http://bit.ly/P8lEx7

Audience In The E-book Age: http://bit.ly/P8lIwQ

Tips for writing the long synopsis: http://bit.ly/P8m0E1

Blogging for authors – should you be self-hosted? Two bloggers who self-host: http://bit.ly/P8m8U0 @dirtywhitecandy

Bad Reviews—6 Reasons to Be Glad You Have Them: http://bit.ly/P8mnOX @annerallen

Peak/peek/pique: http://bit.ly/P8mE4s @JLeaLopez

Online tools for writers: http://bit.ly/P8ne27 @AnnieNeugebauer

Indie Epubbed Authors: How Often Do You Check Your Ebook Sales? http://bit.ly/P8ngXC

Writing Religion And Spirituality: http://bit.ly/P8njTx @thecreativepenn @JillCarroll

5 Things A Writer Can Do to Evolve: http://bit.ly/P8ns9o @LyndaRYoung

Traditional Publishing vs. Self-Publishing–Either or Both? http://bit.ly/P8ntdB @thecreativepenn @livewritethrive

The balance found in small press publishing: http://bit.ly/NuYlMd @DavidBCoe

Eliminating Filter Words: http://bit.ly/Lt5zBU @Janice_Hardy

3 Tips for Developing Characters: http://bit.ly/Lt5FcT @annastanisz

Every time something is repeated in your story, it has to be different: http://bit.ly/Lt5Kxb @kid_lit

5 basic marketing tips: http://bit.ly/Lt5ONs @KarenCV

Create idiosyncrasies for characters: http://bit.ly/Lt62Ec @lisagailgreen

Tips for staying inspired: http://bit.ly/Lt666Q

5 Steps to Telling Engaging Stories on Your Blog: http://bit.ly/Lt67Ys

Various ways that authors spam others: http://bit.ly/Lt6aUl @ava_jae

The importance of a realistic promo plan in a query: http://bit.ly/Q437oo @behlerpublish

Your villain is there to serve the story: http://bit.ly/Q44GCJ @PaulTobin

What Do The Authors Of Serialized Works Owe To Their Fans? http://bit.ly/Q44Mdx @robwhart

The Great Publishing Wars of 2012: http://bit.ly/Q44Qdv @bob_mayer

The bad query paradox: http://bit.ly/NGrCRd @literaticat

An agent explains what 'researching an agent' really means & gives tips for your social media accounts: http://bit.ly/NGrQYC @breeogden

How many hooks are too many? http://bit.ly/NGrXTW

How To Fight Book Pirates: http://bit.ly/NGs55W @jasonboog

Penelope Trunk interviewed after choosing self-pub instead of trad.: http://bit.ly/NDP3Ms @penelopetrunk @laurahazardowen @Porter_Anderson

Is Ignoring The Importance Of Setting Killing Your Novel? http://bit.ly/NGsaqf @bubblecow

Writing crowd interactions: http://bit.ly/NGsipx @juliettewade

A look at Twylah and Topsy Analytics for Twitter users: http://bit.ly/NGstRP @woodwardkaren

Qualities of a good book reviewer: http://bit.ly/NGsNjD @magdalenaball

The trickiness of writing character deaths: http://bit.ly/OEB9sb @mistymassey

The Spectrum of High School Reality in YA Fiction: http://bit.ly/OEBhHW @4everYA

YA writer Ellen Hopkins on Fearless Writing: http://bit.ly/OEBqLI @4YALit

Facebook: Promo vs Privacy: http://bit.ly/OEBxXD @authorems

The emotional seesaw of being a writer: http://bit.ly/OEBUBs @KeithCronin

The Reader Must Want to Know What Happens Next: http://bit.ly/OEC1Nw @janefriedman

5 quick tips writers can use to avoid procrastinating: http://bit.ly/OECajS

Subtext in "The Amazing Spider-Man": http://bit.ly/Q3BIll @jamigold

The New World of Publishing: Editing and Proofing: http://bit.ly/Q3BSZU @deanwesleysmith

The importance of fully-engaged worldbuilding: http://bit.ly/OEHB2c @juliettewade

The 4 Questions Everyone Asks at Conventions: http://bit.ly/OEHNi6 @tordotcom

Villain archetypes: http://bit.ly/OEHZhd

An agent lists 3 common dialogue problems: http://bit.ly/OEIJD8 @sarahlapolla

The types of errors that proofreaders catch: http://bit.ly/OEJ2xA @nicolamorgan

What Writer's Block Is, And What to Do About It: http://bit.ly/OEJ74w @krissybrady

Top 8 Literary References in Seinfeld: http://bit.ly/OEJa00 @NewDorkReview

A tip for writers who get great ideas while showering: http://bit.ly/OEJg86 @woodwardkaren

Outlining For a Fast Draft: http://bit.ly/OEJSdP @denisejaden @janice_hardy

Have You Set the Right Tone for Your Story? http://bit.ly/OEJXyi @KMWeiland

What Every Writer Ought to Know about Flashbacks in Fiction: http://bit.ly/OEK8JN @LoriDevoti

10 Things for Writers to Pack When They Travel: http://bit.ly/OEKCjh @elspethwrites

"Defining moments in...our lives form the basis of our own natural writing rhythms": http://bit.ly/OEKNuH @genelempp

4 iconic types of freelancers: http://bit.ly/O9NV3J @michellerafter

Tips for avoiding bloated writing: http://bit.ly/O9O47n @catewoods

How to pitch your comic book series to a publisher: http://bit.ly/MjZ440 @79semifinalist

How Goals and Good Intentions Can Hold Us Back: http://bit.ly/O9OD0Z @Psych_Writer

Creativity: Change the Way You Look at Things and the Things You Look at Change: http://bit.ly/O9PtL9 @MichaelMichalko

Does worldbuilding have value? Or is it a subcultural "disease"? http://bit.ly/O9PvT6 @juliettewade

The need for ebook formatting standardization: http://bit.ly/NDPJS4 @Porter_Anderson @fakebaldur

Balancing different elements in crime fiction-- book length, violence, narrative vs. dialogue: http://bit.ly/NuL3k5 @MKinberg

Reverse engineering your story: http://bit.ly/MI3XAu @mesummers

Authors, stop spamming--use permission marketing: http://bit.ly/NCLKFp @JFBookman @EditorJamieC @indieauthor @Porter_Anderson

Your Story Cannot Be Published Just Sitting On Your Computer: http://bit.ly/NIs977 @greyhausagency