by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
A weekly roundup of the best writing links from around the web.
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5 years, 6 books, 7 lessons: http://ow.ly/bYp1304BXN8 @lisajanicecohen @WriterUnboxed
10 Tips for Writing Through Family Stress: http://ow.ly/929h304BZIw @bclaypolewhite
Limited vs. Omniscient Third Person POV: http://ow.ly/zTsg304BZwy @p2p_editor
Deconstruct Your Favorite Book: http://ow.ly/fb4h304CczC @JohnnyBTruant
Adapt to Change and Become More Productive: http://ow.ly/y9aX304DKEA @jmunroemartin
5 Writing Apps to Help You Revise Your Manuscript: http://ow.ly/6qAj304DM6U @WhynottEdit @DIYMFA
Mary Shelley’s Shadow: 12 Macabre Quotes From Female Authors: http://ow.ly/5AnV304DLtY @TomBlunt @SignatureReads
Discovering Your Novel’s Hook: http://ow.ly/RNqa304DKAQ @Janice_Hardy
How Long Should Your Series Be? http://ow.ly/tzAp304DLLf @Rachel_Aaron
How to Write Your Fastest Story Ever: http://ow.ly/77nF304DLBZ @EvaDeverell
United Arab Emirates: Toward a ‘National Culture of Reading’: http://ow.ly/yJ3M304UPSG @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives”
Helpful services and platforms for the indie writer: http://ow.ly/pWVH304CcMz @KristineRusch
Facebook and Author Marketing: http://ow.ly/uQhr304CcIm @timgrahl
The Unacknowledged Obstacle of Literary Sleepiness: http://ow.ly/bHlZ304BYbl @jrc2666
3 Ways to Write a Cast of Supporting Characters Without Confusing the Reader: http://ow.ly/wxXb304CemT @mharoldpage
How to Promote Your Latest Work With a Blog: http://ow.ly/hZNo304BZk7 by Matt Banner @mythicscribes
How Many Hours to Write a Novel? http://ow.ly/DhfV304CdRp @jenniferlellis
The More Books You Write, the Harder it Gets (The Secret to Mastery): http://ow.ly/dNq8304CcE8 @GoinsWriter
Twitter Fishing for Agents: http://ow.ly/Dc6t304CeyW @RobinRWrites
Writing the Crime Scene: Guns: http://ow.ly/b03R304CXDQ @repokempt
Editing for the first time? 5 Thoughts To Help You Make Sense Of It: http://ow.ly/KXkr304CfG8 @StephMorrill @GoTeenWriters
3 Enemies of Productivity for Writers: http://ow.ly/bDwo304Yvo8 @lornafaith
7 Tactics To Grip A Reader At The End Of A Chapter: http://ow.ly/faow304Cfvu @sacha_black
10 Steps to Nail Your Story: http://ow.ly/EtLR304CfoC @diannmills
40 Types Of Content That Will Make Blogging Easier: http://ow.ly/AJbs304CeZd @Writers_Write
The Princess Bride: A Frame Narrative Worth Studying: http://ow.ly/7dzT304CeE7 @RobinRWrites
Against Borrowing Books: http://ow.ly/MWcw304BYyH @jrc2666
Depicting Sexual Predators As Villains In Fiction Is Tricky: http://ow.ly/xuBa304z0cs @LynnPNeary @NPR
Tips for Surviving a Manuscript Read-Through: http://ow.ly/JXWH304yGDe @writeabook
Are new writers too ambitious with their stories? Insights from ‘The Bestseller Code’: http://ow.ly/aOlE304Xd93
10 Things Authors Need to Stop Doing on Social Media: http://ow.ly/m8At304Ghty @Dana_Kaye
Publisher Beata Stasińska on 3 areas of concern for the Polish book market: http://ow.ly/cuPH304UOJy @Porter_Anderson
On Traditional Publishing If You Don’t Live in the US: http://ow.ly/7GOw304yKI3 @Ava_Jae
10 Dickensian Character Names Deciphered: http://ow.ly/v48c304yZ5K by Bryan Kozlowski @lithub
Permission to Begin. Courage to Continue. Forgiveness to Try Again. http://ow.ly/XlhH304yGNC @DanBlank @WriterUnboxed
Australia’s Jefferis Award Shortlist, Hachette’s Scored Audiobooks from @Booktrack http://ow.ly/jxst304UOkx @Porter_Anderson
3 Reading Tips for Writers: http://ow.ly/p35X304yGcp @RMFWriters @LiesaMalik
How to Create a Newsletter: http://ow.ly/Bfjt304yNYY @ChrysFey
How to Negotiate: The Tip No One Tells Writers: http://ow.ly/WPPV304yKMJ @jkwak
Creating Mood In A Scene Using Light and Shadow: http://ow.ly/afxt304yNT9 @AngelaAckerman
Crisp Up Your Writing: Revision Tools for Wordsmithing: http://ow.ly/KoEj304yGwZ @writeabook
Indie Authors, Libraries and Discoverability: http://ow.ly/n4Qr304V1Qp @Victoria_Noe @IndieAuthorDay
Indie Author Day is Oct. 8: http://ow.ly/S9aA304V2Yn (Join me at the Statesville Library branch) @IredellLibrary @IndieAuthorDay #AuthorDay16
What 1 Writer Learned on a Debut Book Tour From the Books He Read Along the Way: http://ow.ly/Gxk4304yKyW @alexlockwood @The_Millions
Essential Industry Newsletter for Authors: @HotSheetPub http://ow.ly/UWhR304UQck 30-day free trial: @Porter_Anderson @JaneFriedman
How many indie books were published in 2015 with ISBNs? @Bowker Cites at Least 625,327: http://ow.ly/5z8Z304UO57 @Porter_Anderson
Editing for Musicality by Olivia Farnsworth: http://ow.ly/LFuc304yL2m @GoTeenWriters
Creative and simple ways to grow your list: http://ow.ly/LDmT304yXRA @MailerLite
A perfect storm: Margaret Atwood on rewriting Shakespeare’s Tempest: http://ow.ly/RCxB304yYHi @MargaretAtwood @GuardianBooks
Using Dialogue to Build Conflict: http://ow.ly/uyTC304yGsY @Eileenwriter @WomenWriters
How to Use Inner Dialogue: http://ow.ly/lMHm304yLjp @ProWritingAid
7 Sick Literary Hook-ups: http://ow.ly/BIdr304yLrb @jsbreukelaar @LitReactor
50 Romance Plot Ideas: http://ow.ly/DqH8304wPVB @BrynDonovan
In Defense of Slow, Thoughtful Writing: http://ow.ly/oqKt304wQ2b @SRaffelock
What Firefly teaches about series writing: http://ow.ly/WcHi304Som0 @rxena77
Great Books Result from Characters’ Bad Decisions: http://ow.ly/lSh2304wPMe @TobiasCarroll
Novel structure: from word to sentence to beat to scene to act: http://ow.ly/HfoF304wQ6K @kseniaanske
How to Write a Short Story with Clarity and Economy: http://ow.ly/V1ng304wPBy by Patrick Ryan @SignatureReads
Writing with Personality for Introverts: http://ow.ly/H5Nf304wQ55 @AnitaFreshFaith
5 Reasons Your Plot Stalled: http://ow.ly/T6Ph304wQ83 @Janice_Hardy
20 Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Target Audience: http://ow.ly/9eAM304uWWv @AuthorAshleeM
Backstory: When Is It Necessary? http://ow.ly/atKF304uYm6 @JamiGold
Finessing Backstory: http://ow.ly/B9ys304uYr2 @MargieLawson
Amazon Book Reviews What’s “Allowed” and “Not Allowed”: http://ow.ly/jLnD304uYGO @selfpubreview
How to Write a Science Fiction Novel Series: 6 Tips: http://ow.ly/kkQF304uWIC @svartjagr
Tackling Amazon’s Top Reviewer List: http://ow.ly/aF1D304uYMf @WtTrainWOInjury
The Inciting Incident Plunges Your Character Into His Journey: http://ow.ly/uD97304uY4H @ZoeMMcCarthy
Repetition in writing: http://ow.ly/ixtz304N3qv @p2p_editor
A Storyteller’s Swiss Army Knife? The Setting: http://ow.ly/uetA304uYhm @AngelaAckerman
16 Things Writers Should Know About Quoting From Letters: http://ow.ly/sn09304uWdV @RightsofWriters
Marketing a Book: 7 Essential Rules to Build the Buzz Online: http://ow.ly/TRId304uV8v @CathyPresland
Does FB Sell Books? Do Writers Need a Facebook Fan Page? http://ow.ly/RxFD304uqtu @KristenLambTX
5 Practical Tips for World Building: http://ow.ly/nYUT304uYa7 @AlexBledsoe
Revealing the Interiority of Characters: http://ow.ly/Jq4C304uXWu by John Thornton Williams @ElectricLit
Can I Be Liable for Publishing Mistaken Information? http://ow.ly/SOX0304uWAc @RightsofWriters
Strangeness, truth in nonfiction, and the space between real and unreal: http://ow.ly/VDLj304uXEo @JDaugherty1081 @ElectricLit
5 Tips for Writing Scary Stories: http://ow.ly/TxSL304uYyl @RossAuthor
10 Self-Editing Mistakes and How To Avoid Them: http://ow.ly/trs6304uUQX @CathyPresland
PEN America on Banning Books in the USA and ‘Soft Censorship’: http://ow.ly/Xu3E304N3gb @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
Building suspense in a mystery when the crime or victim has been established at the start: http://ow.ly/8WJ6304N30j @mkinberg
Quick Writing Can Still Result in Quality Writing: http://ow.ly/z2P8304MZWM @rxena77
A 6 Step Guide to Creating a Book Fair: http://ow.ly/S4HI304N7qA @DemiStevens19 @TheIWSG
BISG at 40: Past and Future: http://ow.ly/hMPy304N19K @Porter_Anderson @brianoleary
What Not to Write: http://ow.ly/IpNp304shoo @wendypmiller
5 Common Plotting Mistakes to Avoid: http://ow.ly/TKpH304sh5v @Janice_Hardy
Is your writing a hobby, an art, a business, a vocation, a profession? http://ow.ly/f2e5304sgw8 @Roz_Morris
What Writers Need to Know About Library Systems: http://ow.ly/YWy2304sfv3 @WriterLibrarian
The Power of Myth in Fiction: http://ow.ly/91LU304sfk4 @sarahrcallender
How To Write a Novel (When You Think You’ve Forgotten How): http://ow.ly/jQFt304sfcD @cathryanhoward
Not Doing All the Things We Want to Do: http://ow.ly/VKwu304sf1Q @zen_habits
The History and Present of Banning Books in America: http://ow.ly/kkoX304sfO9 @ingredient_x
3 Writing Goals to Set: http://ow.ly/VJML304seRn @Magic_Violinist
On the House of Mirth and the Literature of Income Inequality: http://ow.ly/rnfd304sfHD @MsShade @lithub
Building a Closet Office in 5 Steps: http://ow.ly/JUzg304seCF @Wix
Want to Make Revisions Easier? Create an Editorial Map: http://ow.ly/JmgX304sfoU @Janice_Hardy
A Writer Looks Back at His First Novel: http://ow.ly/N3cD304nJPN @leverus @lithub
Writing Scenes for Your Story’s Goals: http://ow.ly/YRpv304nD6s @Lindasclare
Perfecting First Person POV: http://ow.ly/VMlv304nDDe @AJHumpage
How Reading Screenplays Will Improve Your Writing: http://ow.ly/naks304oTAn @ScriptReaderPro
5 Common Plotting Mistakes to Avoid: http://ow.ly/L7iP304oTJp @Janice_Hardy
19 Examples for Describing People: http://ow.ly/NItD304oSVR @WordDreams
When to let that manuscript go: http://ow.ly/7tnw304oTDL @staceyleeauthor
Find the time to write, overcome your fears and finish your book: http://ow.ly/ycS1304oT3W @SukhiJutla
10 Effective Ways to Deal With an Inner Critic: http://ow.ly/8H2E304oT9z @10MinNovelists
20 Key Scenes for Writers of Romance Novels: http://ow.ly/DxAI304oSSP @CSLakin
How To Write Short Stories That Sell: http://ow.ly/X3aU304oSOq @AlanBaxter @thecreativepenn
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Thanks, as ever, Elizabeth, for these links. As always, there’s such a rich variety here! I really like the fact that there’s a focus on wordsmithing, if I can put it that way. It’s that basic stuff that makes for a good book.
Margot–So basic and so vital! Hope you have a great week!
Found some new sites to add to the IWSG!
Alex–There are some good ones there! Thanks for coming by.
I hope your event on Saturday was good. Really glad they cancelled ours. No one was coming out in the middle of a hurricane with a torrential downpour and flooding.
Diane–You know, it was a pretty good turnout of writers! Nice event, especially considering the buckets of water coming down and the wind. Library did a good job in Statesville. I’ll look forward to next year.