Twitterific Writing Links

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

A weekly roundup of the best writing links from around the web.

Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 39,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers.

Creativity and Inspiration / Miscellaneous

• For a More Creative Brain, Follow These 5 Steps @GoIntoTheStory

Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration

• 9 muses for indie authors @publishingtalk

• Is Writing a Novel a “Someday” Dream for You? @aliventures

• 8 Reasons to Write Your Book Now @SukhiJutla

• Mentor a Writer @FictionNotes

• To Improve Creative Output, Go Inward @CreativeKatrina

• 5 Tips to Help You Fall in Love with Creating Again @emily_tjaden

• How to Harvest Creative Writing Ideas from the News @WritingForward

Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration / Reading as Writers

• Off the Rails @SignatureReads

• 7 Books That Explore the Boundaries of Language @SignatureReads

Creativity and Inspiration / Motivation

• 30 Minutes, 30 Days @aperfectsturm2

Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Writing Quickly

• 4 Qualities of Productive Writers @lornafaith

• Want to finish your novel? Try talking to yourself @NathanBransford

• 10 Ways to Own NaNo (And the Other 11 Months, Too) @KristenLambTX

Creativity and Inspiration / Success

• How Do You Sell 100 Million Copies of a Book? @joebunting

• The Successful Author Mindset @thecreativepenn

Creativity and Inspiration / Writing Life

• Making Time to Blog or Write @kikolani

• Author Eugene Mirabelli on the loss of his wife and ‘Renato After Alba’ @lithub

• Forgive yourself @DanBlank

• What it Takes to Be a Writer @Wordstrumpet

• 3 Ways to Keep Sugar from Killing Your Creative Mojo @colleen_m_story

• 8 Tips to Help You Thrive through the Holidays @wendypmiller

• Living the Laptop Lifestyle @DeniseWakeman

Genres / Fantasy

• Fantasy and Maps – Does Your Story Need One? @lauralzimm

• What to research when writing fantasy @Brianna_daSilva

• A Look at the 20 Key Scenes of a Fantasy Novel @CSLakin

• Vampires: Origins, Evolution, and Role in Fantasy Fiction: by Leo Elijah Cristea

Genres / Horror

• Horror and Swords and Sorcery @FletcherWasp

Genres / Memoir

• How to Write Your Memoir @111publishing

Genres / Poetry

• R Is for Rewriting @tspoetry

• 6 Steps to Writing the Polished Acrostic @tspoetry

Genres / Screenwriting

• Screenwriting @GoIntoTheStory

• Screenwriting @GoIntoTheStory

Promo / Miscellaneous

• 10 Ways to Breathe New Life into an Older Book @Bookgal

• Just Say Yes @WriterUnboxed

• 3 Marketing Strategies Geared to Motivate People to Buy @KarenCV

• Help Readers Find You with 12 Book Discovery Tools @WhereWritersWin

• The Basics of Book Metadata and Keywords @carlaking

Promo / Ads

• 7 Ways to Target Readers Using BookBub Ads @DianaUrban

Promo / Blogging

• Brainstorming blog posts @NinaAmir

Promo / Book Signings and Launch parties

• How to Put on an Author Event @brandigranett

Promo / Newsletters

• How to Automate Your Book Marketing @timgrahl

Promo / Social Media Tips

• 13 Social Media Rules that Every Author Needs to Know @NovelRocket

• How to Automatically Reshare Your Social Media Updates Using Free Tools @SMExaminer

• 4 Easy Ways to Market Your Book @Bookgal

• Create a Call to Action that Gets Results @EmilyWenstrom

• How to Choose the Right Social Media Channels to Sell Books @cksyme

• Is It Time for Authors to Stop Using Google+? @CaballoFrances

Promo / Websites

• What does an author’s website need to succeed? @donnatalarico @TheWriterMag

Publishing / News / International Publishing

• In Germany @pubperspectives

• An agent on selling books written in a language he can’t read @pubperspectives

• Intl. Publishers Assoc. Joins in Appeals for Condemned Mauritanian Blogger @Porter_Anderson

• Closing the Gap Between Brazilian Literature and the World @pubperspectives

Publishing / Options / Self-Publishing

• What Does It Mean to Be an ‘Indie’? Myths dispelled @WriterUnboxed

• 4 Things to do before Self Publishing Your Book @pattywrites

Publishing / Options / Traditional Publishing / Querying

• Publishing Interviews @LandRAgency

Publishing / Process / Legalities

• Illustrating a book? Know your rights to protect your work @BetterNovelProj

Writing Craft / Miscellaneous

• 7 Tips to Become a Better Writer @ZoeMMcCarthy

• Readers Have Goals Too @ZoeMMcCarthy

Writing Craft / Characters / Development

• How to tell if you have too many characters @Brianna_daSilva

• Finding Your Character’s Hook @AngelaAckerman

• Beyond Good vs. Sucky @CockeyedCaravan

• What Are Your Characters Thankful For? @Janice_Hardy

Writing Craft / Endings

• How to Write Endings that “Wow” @KristenLambTX

Writing Craft / Lessons from Books and Film

• Did We Come Across Town For This? Revisiting A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving @cloudy_vision

Writing Craft / Literary Devices

• How to Write Similes That Shine @LHowardWrites

• Hyperbole in Description @ZoeMMcCarthy

Writing Craft / POV

• Backgrounding Your World Through Point of View @JulietteWade

Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Plotting

• How To Plan Your Novel Using The Three-Act Structure @WritersEdit

• Crafting a Killer Undercurrent for Your Story @SeptCFawkes

• Revelation Turning Points: by Shawn Coyne

• Elements of a Good Story @CockeyedCaravan

• Building Stories @susan_bischoff

• Story Structure for Screenwriters @CockeyedCaravan

Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Research

• Write What You Don’t Know @mythicscribes

• Beyond Google @KillerNashville

Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Story Concept

• Stop Killing Your Ideas @lornafaith

Writing Craft / Punctuation and Grammar

• How to Punctuate Dialogue @MarcyKennedy

• How to Punctuate and Format Inner Dialogue @ProWritingAid

• 3 Cases of Dangling Participles @writing_tips

Writing Craft / Revision

• How Long Should Your Book Be? The Complete Guide @standoutbooks

• 30+ Words To Watch Out For As You Write @LizaWiemer

Writing Craft / Revisions / Critiques

• How to Digest a Tough Critique @Ava_Jae

• How to Form a Critique Group @ceciliaedits

Writing Craft / Tension

• Character Tension @YAtopia_blog

• Mastering Stylistic Tension @SeptCFawkes

Writing Tools / Miscellaneous

• Product Review @chris_shultz81

• Hiveword 5 Year Retrospective of Services and Software for Writers   @Hiveword

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