Twitterific

by Elizabeth S. Craig,
@elizabethscraig











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





 

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A 3-point revision checklist: http://bit.ly/T9Pa7Z @annastanisz





Point of View in Science-Fiction: http://bit.ly/XP9U3q @VeronicaSicoe





The Final Battle (Elements of Act Three):
http://bit.ly/XPai21 @AlexSokoloff





Tips for hooking readers: http://bit.ly/T9PtzS @write_practice





Visual Editing: Color Coding Your Way to
a Cleaner Manuscript: http://bit.ly/XPaBtO
@danyelleleafty





How Unnecessary Creating Changes
Everything: http://bit.ly/T9PAeH
@beAccidental





A site with daily, succinct ,
screenwriting tips: http://bit.ly/T9QpnI
@XanderBennett





Writing A Story? Make Sure You Have A
Concept Not Just An Idea: http://bit.ly/T9QDeC
@woodwardkaren





Top Ten Rules of Space Opera: http://bit.ly/XPe2kd @io9





The Muppets and Mahna, Mahna – the Untold
Story: http://bit.ly/T9QIyN @thisishorror





3 Quiet Fears that Stop Writers from
Writing: http://bit.ly/R8Iszy @writersdigest





Most Common British/American English
Spelling Mistakes: http://bit.ly/R8Ix6h
@thecreativepenn





Promoting Science Through Science
Fiction: http://bit.ly/UUvimL





Even the Underground Needs Editors: http://bit.ly/R8IHdV





Profanity in fantasy: http://bit.ly/R8IUgZ @nkjemisin





So you wrote a novel. Now what? http://bit.ly/UUwl6m @p2p_editor





10 Colloquial Terms and Their Meanings: http://bit.ly/R8IZ4v @writing_tips





Change is not the enemy: http://bit.ly/R8J0Fs @pbr_writer





Learning to See the Good in Bad Writing: http://bit.ly/UUwOWc @Christi_Craig





Actions and Reactions: The End-All-Be-All
of Storytelling: http://bit.ly/U4sbv4
@jamigold





Misconceptions About Writing Careers: http://bit.ly/UUwWoG @cockeyed_caravan





10 E-Newsletter Tips For Authors &
Bloggers: http://bit.ly/R8Jhs3 @mollygreene





How to Cut the Filler and Tighten Your
Book: http://bit.ly/XYvJxy @KMWeiland





10 Best Writing Workbooks: http://bit.ly/RKNVOk @charmaineclancy





Tips for Getting Published in Literary
Magazines and Journals: http://bit.ly/XYwhDR
@melissadonovan





Tips for avoiding writing bloopers: http://bit.ly/RKO4RV





Tips for working through writer's block: http://bit.ly/XYwUNN





Story Crisis & Climax: http://bit.ly/RKOMPk @shalvatzis





Using Beats To Strengthen Characters And
Setting: http://bit.ly/Ul6SmL @rlbelliston





Moral Causes in Fantasy Worlds: http://bit.ly/RKOWpC @mythicscribes





The 19 Most Popular Articles on Writing
of 2012 for Writer's Digest: http://bit.ly/Y0fK2g
@writersdigest





Get Your Novel Moving: Cure for Stagnant
Openings: http://bit.ly/ZrpuZG @Lindasclare





Literary Journal Submission Tip: Avoid
Clichés, or Twist them into Treasure: http://bit.ly/Y0giVM
@MsBessieBell





The Daily Routines of Famous Writers: http://bit.ly/ZrpQPQ @brainpicker





Tips for satisfying story payoffs: http://bit.ly/Y0hfxd





Too much characterization? Too little?
Prioritize: http://bit.ly/ZrqaOz
@laurelgarver





Psychoanalyzing your villain: http://bit.ly/Ul6AMM @theheraldryang





Creating Memorable Supporting Characters:
http://bit.ly/VCsw5j @woodwardkaren





Creating tension: http://bit.ly/ZbnWBx @Christina_Lee04





4 Options for Improving Your Fiction: http://bit.ly/TRpXz4 @writeitsideways





Four Levels of Showing and Telling: http://bit.ly/Y0i1KK @pyrosama





3 quick self-editing tips: http://bit.ly/ZrqLQm @Lindasclare





Where Do Successful Authors Get Their
Most Brilliant Writing Ideas? http://bit.ly/Y0ixsj
@melissadonovan






Dean Wesley Smith's Advice To Indie
Authors For 2013: How To Sell Fiction: http://bit.ly/WAcQ56
@woodwardkaren





The Multifunctional Life of Dialogue
Tags: http://bit.ly/UhDRdO @behlerpublish





Perfecting the Query Letter--tips: http://bit.ly/WAdsrq @lynnettelabelle





How to Write a Page Turner: http://bit.ly/UhDTTa @juliemusil





Writer's Block: 5 Top Tips for Finding
Inspiration: http://bit.ly/WAdvn7 @fcmalby





How to Write a Reader-Friendly Essay: http://bit.ly/WAdzmP @writersdigest





Measuring Creative Success: http://bit.ly/UhE3ty @diymfa





Post NaNo Revisions: The Agents'
Perspective: http://bit.ly/WAdEad @yahighway





How Blogging a Book Provides You with a
Continuous Flow of Blog Posts: http://bit.ly/UhEJiL
@ninaamir





Creating a homelike, appealing setting: http://bit.ly/UhETGP @donaldmaass





5 blog tour tips: http://bit.ly/UhEZOB @BwitchedBkworms





Taking On Insecurity And Kicking It To
The Ground: http://bit.ly/WAeJi3
@VeronicaSicoe





I'm Not a Real Writer If… : http://bit.ly/WAeSCe @LyndaRYoung





Your Author Brand – How to Make the Most
of It: http://bit.ly/UhFk3Q @ollyrhodes





Test Your Characters: Are They Strong
Enough? http://bit.ly/UhFnN3 @woodwardkaren





10 Lessons From a Completed Novel: http://bit.ly/WAfdEQ @kmweiland





Writerly Uses For Excel – Part 2: http://bit.ly/UhFvw1 @JennyHansenCA





Starting a New chapter: Defeating the
Blank Page: http://bit.ly/WAfqIn
@fictionnotes





Settings in Your Novel That Work As
Triggers: http://bit.ly/UhFGYg
@livewritethrive





How to Survive a Critique: http://bit.ly/WAfwzJ @MarcyKennedy





How to Manage Expectations, Prologue:
Every Criticism is the Product of an Unmet Expectation: http://bit.ly/UhFN64 @cockeyed_caravan





Craft: Revision: http://bit.ly/WAfFDj @fantasyfaction





How To Storyboard a Book for Marketing
Purposes: http://bit.ly/TRbO3S @bob_mayer





The Theology of Screenwriting:
Congregation: http://bit.ly/TRc3Mf
@gointothestory





22 rules of successful storytelling: http://bit.ly/10aCFNI @lawnrocket
@pbjpublishing





Working with reader assumptions as a
writer: http://bit.ly/10aCUbD @bluemaven





10 Ways to Kill Your Book Club: http://bit.ly/10aD0zZ @WallaceYovetich





Bragging without killing our online
credibility: http://bit.ly/TRcSoh
@kristenlambtx





How to Research an Ancient Society for
Your Fiction: http://bit.ly/TRcZjP
@laurapauling @hp4writers





The Difference Between Conflict and
Tension: http://bit.ly/10aDt52 @kmweiland





Reconnecting with Your Lost Love of
Writing: http://bit.ly/10aDwOl
@CKKellyMartin





'You Are All Alone': The Best And Worst
Things About Freelancing: http://bit.ly/TRddaE
@passivevoiceblg





30 minutes daily to building a platform: http://bit.ly/TRdme7+|+Duolit%29
@duolit





When to shut down a creative life: http://bit.ly/10aE9HT @emergentpublish





Writing a better climactic scene: http://bit.ly/10aEDOb @Lindasclare





Forging Your Own Independence as a
Writer: http://bit.ly/10aEQAR @philjourdan





The Science of Storytelling: Why Telling
a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains: http://bit.ly/10aEVEE @LeoWid





Ghosts of Writers Future: http://bit.ly/Ujg9hs @kristinerusch





Write Smart, Not Fast: http://bit.ly/VZtlVH @DannyIny





Spicing Up a Story With Similes &
Metaphors: http://bit.ly/UjgiBD @jodyhedlund





What The Hobbit Taught 1 Writer About
Writing: http://bit.ly/VZtsk7 @joebunting





Developmental editing tips: http://bit.ly/Ujgwsh @rebeccaberto





How To Write An eBook: Pulling Your Team
Together: http://bit.ly/VZtyIw @inkybites





Every writer should learn to
self-publish: http://bit.ly/UjgBw5 @namenick





How to de-risk book publishing: http://oreil.ly/VZtA3f @Magnify





Writing Horror: What Makes A Story Scary?
http://bit.ly/UjgGjq @woodwardkaren





4 Tips For Understanding KDP Select: http://bit.ly/VZtHvw @BadRedheadMedia





Writing fiction with animal protagonists:
http://bit.ly/UjgPDp





How to Write a Book Review: http://bit.ly/VZtLLK @writing_tips





Losing the (Historical) Plot: http://bit.ly/Ujh0P8





How Do You Know If Your Work is Any Good?
http://bit.ly/VZtV5V @rachellegardner





Patriarchal societies and historically
accurate sexism in fantasy? http://bit.ly/UjhqoG
and http://bit.ly/UjhqoH @TheMarySue
@tansyrr





Writing, Rejections, and Going for that
Overhead Smash: http://bit.ly/VZuhJW





The Anatomy and Value of Fictional
Violence: http://bit.ly/UjhG79
@KgElfland2ndCuz





Use non-fiction angles to promote your
novel: http://bit.ly/VZumNM @LauraPepWu





Need to Get in the Head of Your
Character? Try a Mask Poem: http://bit.ly/UjhLI0
@artsyletters





The Business of Screenwriting:
Withdrawing screen credit and pseudonyms: http://bit.ly/VZuqNq
@gointothestory





Writing Sex: Kaleidoscope, or, How
paranormal helps when you're tired of tab A and slot B: http://bit.ly/UjhTHD





How to Write Dynamic Dialogue: http://bit.ly/VZuuww





Tips for tackling revisions: http://bit.ly/Ujih8T @stdennard





Writing A Book: What Happens After The
First Draft? http://bit.ly/UjirNq
@thecreativepenn





What Dialogue Can Do for Your
Stories--And What It Should Never Try to Do: http://bit.ly/UjisRz





How to Manage Expectations, Step 1:
Choose a Genre: http://bit.ly/VZuMUi
@cockeyed_caravan





Use only 1 coincidence in a book: http://bit.ly/UjiA3s @karalennox





Debut Author vs. Career Author: http://bit.ly/VZuVa7 @susankayequinn





How to Write When You Don't Want To: http://bit.ly/VZuVH6 @ava_jae





Beat sheet of the movie "The
Flight": http://bit.ly/Ut58uR





Is some popular YA really fan fiction? http://bit.ly/V4tPLI @BooksAreMyBFs





Print and eBooks cannot co-exist after
all: http://bit.ly/Ut5u4L @thefuturebook





10 Unlikely Things That Were Influenced
by J.R.R. Tolkien: http://bit.ly/Ut5WQr @io9





How and why 1 writer chose to self-pub: http://natpo.st/V4ugpq @lisleong





Free Sites to Promote Your eBook: http://bit.ly/N1E5D6 @galleycat





Writing--goals and rewards: http://bit.ly/V4ulJG @diymfa





Why 1 writer paid for a book review and
why he won't again: http://bit.ly/Ut6fea
@erikwecks





Editing & Critiquing: http://bit.ly/V4uo8r @woodwardkaren





Lessons From 'The Godfather' On Sticking
To Your Creative Vision: http://bit.ly/Ut6nKB
@danblank





How to Structure a Killer Novel Ending: http://bit.ly/V4uvRf @writersdigest





Why Netflix Makes You a Better Writer: http://bit.ly/Ut6t56 @robdyoungwrites





The Theology of Screenwriting: Grace: http://bit.ly/V4uAVe @gointothestory





What Writers, Editors, and Publishers
Should Worry About: http://bit.ly/Ut6FBa
@robertleebrewer





5 Ways to Find an Agent for Your Book: http://bit.ly/UOSRhG @galleycat





Why Women Writers Still Take Men's Names:
http://on.wsj.com/V4vBfY @wsj





A Simple Approach to Revisions: http://bit.ly/Ut7VEq @cathyyardley





What are your scene's goals? 5 questions
to ask: http://bit.ly/Uy2cfB @Porter_Anderson
@KMWeiland





Flawed characters add depth to crime
fiction: http://bit.ly/ZTUn9b @mkinberg





The problem with writers reviewing their
own books on Amazon: http://bit.ly/UJllLS
@Porter_Anderson @andrew_hough @jeremyduns





Adult sibling relationships in crime
fiction: http://bit.ly/Wkgvlt @mkinberg





Thinking Commercially: http://bit.ly/V4vGAd @fictionnotes





Quick recap of literary elements we could
consider using in our writing: http://bit.ly/Ut94vO





4 Songwriting Tips For Scoring Film and
TV Placements: http://bit.ly/RQGMus @usasong





You ought to be in pages (or should
you?): http://bit.ly/V4wOUq @bufocalvin





Getting Readers Onboard Without
Infodumping: http://bit.ly/Ut9wdl
@janice_hardy





7 Ways Writing a Screenplay is Different
Than Writing a Novel: http://bit.ly/U2ULNg
@writersdigest





Rebellious characters: http://bit.ly/UAi66B @jeanniecampbell





10 Television Cliffhangers That Make
Great Series Finales: http://bit.ly/Y9zhBY
@io9





Tightening your plot by layering: http://bit.ly/Y9BJbN @juliettewade





12 Tips On How To Write Antagonists Your
Readers Will Love To Hate: http://bit.ly/WHFBgd
@woodwardkaren