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.

Business / Miscellaneous

• Why You Should Track Your Book Sales + Free Sales Tracker Template: by Fix My Story

• The Unpredictable Nature of a Writing Career @Ava_Jae

• Writing Income: What 1 Writer Made in 2016: @KameronHurley

• 6 Basic Tech Skills Every Author Must Learn: @carlaking

• Make Art and Make Money at the Same Time: @monicaleonelle @lornafaith

• Writer Finances Versus The Paycheck World: @KristineRusch

Creativity and Inspiration / Goal setting

• 3 Ways to Keep Writing Resolutions: by Kirsti Call @WritersRumpus

Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration

• Creating Playlists for Your Writing: @FinishedPages

Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration / Quotes

• 5 Rules for a Successful Writing Life from Maya Angelou: @JennyHansenCA

Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Writer’s Block

• Common Creative Roadblocks for Empaths: @CreativeKatrina

• 5 Helpful Tools To Combat Writer’s Block: by Jamie Rotante @AmReadingDotCom

• Are There Story Elements You Avoid Writing? @JamiGold

Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Writing Quickly

• 3 Tips To Counter Procrastination In Writing: @rsmollisonread

• 3 Reasons To Write Every Day: @Mad_Hat_Writer

• The Benefits of Writing Rituals: @Mad_Hat_Writer

• The blank page: conquering your fears: @Roz_Morris

Creativity and Inspiration / Writing Life

• Write it Forward: 5 Ways to Stay Positive: @AJBanner1 @WomenWriters

• What Your Font Choice Says About You: @paperblanks

• 11 words whose meanings have completely changed over time: @sesquiotic @TheWeek

• Stress or Burnout? How They’re Different and Why You Need to Know: @RuthHarrisBooks

• The Peculiar Pain of Data Loss: @MarchMcCarron

• Stephen King on putting writing in perspective: @zenpencils

Genres / Fantasy

• For Fantasy Writers: Top 10 Books To Improve Your Writing: by Aaron Miles

• Potions, Alchemy, & Apothecaries: Inspirations from the Real World: @NicolaAlter

Genres / Memoir

• 5 Lessons to Be Learned While Writing a Memoir: @sheilakohler

• When memoir becomes a different book: @Belinda_Pollard

Genres / Miscellaneous

• 5 Things Learned When Switching Genres: @KMWeiland

Genres / Mystery

• How to Write Better Villains: 5 Ways to Get Into the Mind of a Psychopath: @peterjamesuk

• Crime Writing: What Happens to the Body After Death? @SueColetta1

• Crime fiction: when minding your own business can still get you into trouble: @mkinberg

Genres / Picture Books

• The Top 10 Myths About Writing Children’s Books: @HighlightsFound

Genres / Romance

• Making A Case for Romance: @LovettRomance

• In fiction, “I love you” has to come in subtext, not text: @SPressfield

Genres / Screenwriting

• Screenwriting: Set Pieces: Spin the plot: @GoIntoTheStory

• Script Analysis: “Arrival”: Scene By Scene Breakdown: @GoIntoTheStory

Genres / Short Stories

• Are short stories ever considered by agents? @Janet_Reid

Promo / Blogging

• 4 Content Syndication Strategies for Bloggers: @WordStream

• 5 Bad Reasons for Authors to Blog and 5 Good Ones: @annerallen

Promo / Book Descriptions and Copywriting

• Writing an Effective Book Description: @woodwardkaren

• Profanity in a book title? by Jeff Wheeland @ReedsyHQ

Promo / Book Reviews

• Moving Past A Negative Review: @Bookgal

• 10 Times Book Reviewers Totally Got It Wrong: by Kathy Gates @AmReadingDotCom

Promo / Connecting with Readers

• Using Pew Research Stats to Find Your Readers Online: @CaballoFrances

• +127 of Best Book Promotion Sites and Submission Tools: Free and Paid @DaveChesson

Promo / Miscellaneous

• Book Promotion: Do This, Not That: @NewShelvesBooks

• Lessons From a Debut Novelist’s 1st Year of Book Marketing: @EmilyWenstrom

• The Art of the Media Pitch for Indie Authors: @Bookgal

• How to Set Clear Goals and Objectives for Your Book Launch: @bkmkting

• Why Your Book Marketing Is Not Working (podcast): @cksyme

• What’s Your Story About? A Way to Quickly Explain: @SharonKurtzman1

• Author Tip Sheet: The Whys and Hows: @karinabilich

Promo / Newsletters

• Why You Should Use Both Autoresponders and a Broadcast: @SeanPlatt

Promo / Platforms

• 5 Tips for Building Your Author Brand: by S.C. Sharman @mythicscribes

Promo / Social Media Tips

• Extend Your Blog’s Reach with Instagram: @sarahblackstock @postaday

• 5 Mistakes Authors Make on Social Media: by Michael Cristiano

• A roundup of writers’ opinions whether to be political on social media: @dsantat @leewind

• Twitter for Writers & Editors: @Belinda_Pollard

Promo / Speaking

• How to Create a Speaker One-Sheet: @loishoffmanDE

Promo / Websites

• Your Author Page: 5 Questions to Ask Yourself: @karinabilich

Publishing / Miscellaneous

• Andy Weir’s (@andyweirauthor) ‘The Martian’ Gets Classroom-Friendly Makeover: @xanalter @nytimes

• DRM (Digital Rights Management): What You Need to Know: by Xavier Davis @BookWorksNYC

• Libraries and Bookstores Are Getting Into Indie Publishing: @rcutlerSpark

Publishing / News / International Publishing

• ‘Immediate Release’ of Authors, Journalists: Petition Delivered to German Government: @Porter_Anderson

Rights Watch: An Israeli Agency’s Bologna Picks for Young Readers:                                         @Porter_Anderson

Publishing Startups: BuzzTrace Looks To Track Authors’ Social Networking: @Porter_Anderson

Publishing / Options / Traditional Publishing / Querying

• When to include “why I wrote this book” in a query: @Janet_Reid

Publishing / Process / Book Design

• Anatomy of a book cover: @KarlaLant @99designs

Publishing / Process / Services to Avoid

• When your agent wants to charge you a fee: @JaneLebak

Writing Craft / Beginnings

• 2 Tips For Introducing Your Protagonist: @KathrynR47

Writing Craft / Characters / Arc

• How to Write Character Arcs: @KMWeiland

• Unpacking the “Character-Driven” Story—How to Make Your Story Sizzle: @KristenLambTX

Writing Craft / Characters / Development

• How to Find Your Character’s Voice: @Janice_Hardy

Writing Craft / Characters / Protagonists

• 3 Simple Ways to Create Memorable Lead Characters: @JerryBJenkins

• Creating An Unforgettable Protagonist: @Writers_Write

Writing Craft / Characters / Supporting Characters

• 4 Core Components of an Awesome Sidekick Character: @RobinRWrites

Writing Craft / Common Mistakes

• 5 Common Mistakes 1 Editor Sees: @ceciliaedits

• 10 Things Which Most Often Go Wrong With Beginners’ Fiction: @emma_darwin

• How to show not tell in fiction: @jasonbougger

Writing Craft / Endings

• Letting Your Story End at the End: @DiannaLGunn

Writing Craft / Lessons from Books and Film

• 16 Tempestuous Tales of Weather Magic: by Stubby the Rocket @tordotcom

Writing Craft / Miscellaneous

• Creating breaks in the action can make your story: @willvanstonejr

• 4 Ways A Twist Ending Can Ruin Your Story: @InkyBites

• Do you really need 10,000 hours to be a good writer? @pubcoach

• Working through a novel, problem by problem: by Shawn Coyne

• 10 Essential Tips to Improve Your Writing Style: @hodgeswriter

• How James Patterson learned to become a better writer: @rxena77

• How To Write An Epic Battle Scene by Hannah Collins @standoutbooks

• Ten Rules of Writing: @amitavakumar

Writing Craft / Plot Holes

• How to Fill Plot Holes in Your Novel: @Janice_Hardy

Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Plotting

• Deepen Your Story With Character Misdirection: @KMWeiland

• 5 Plot Points to Help Finish the First Draft: @cstevenmanley

Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Research

• How To Research Your Novel … And When To Stop: @thecreativepenn

Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Story Beats

• A Pre-Writing Exercise: Blocking out the Scene: @MarchMcCarron

Writing Craft / Punctuation and Grammar

• 3 Examples of Misplaced Modifiers: @writing_tips

• 5 More Sentences Rendered More Concise: @writing_tips

Writing Craft / Revision

• 4 rounds of editing: @LoriRobinett

• Editing Tips: Top 3 Scene Issues: @NaomiLHughes

• 6 Easy Ways to Clean Up Your Own Manuscript: @KristenLambTX

Writing Craft / Revisions / Critiques

• Making the Most of Beta Readers: @markcoker

• 3 Reasons to Find and Join a Local Writer’s Group: @terrywhalin

• If You Can’t Find Beta Readers: @JamiGold

Writing Craft / Scenes

• Figure Out What’s Working in Your Scene, and What Isn’t: @Astrohaus

Writing Craft / Series / Series Bible

• How to Create A Series Bible for Your Fiction: @lornafaith

Writing Craft / Settings and Description

• Describing Your Character: How To Make Each Detail Count: @AngelaAckerman

Writing Tools / Resources

• Why You Should Read About Writing: @KelsieEngen

• 6 Inspirational and Informative Writing Podcasts: @woodwardkaren

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