by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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- Is Collaborative Writing on the rise? And Making the Most of It: @msheatherwebb @WriterUnboxed
- 5 Freelance Writing Tips: @robertleebrewer @WritersDigest
- Two Vital Questions to Ask Yourself About Writing: by Diane Tibert
- For Indie Publishers: When and Why to Work with a Trade Book Distributor: @joebiel_ @JaneFriedman
- How to understand readability stats: @pubcoach
- Sharjah Book Fair Opens With Spectacle, Ceremony: @Porter_Anderson
- The UK’s Sunday Times/PFD Award for Younger Writers Shortlists Four Debuts: @girlhermes @LauraSFreeman @FJMoz @adamweymouth by @Porter_Anderson @YoungWriterYear
- Hay Festival Announces New Events in Peru and Chile: @Porter_Anderson
- Canada’s 2018 Cundill History Prize Finalists: Authors and Climate in Context: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- At Sharjah, London Book Fair Plans Market Focus Indonesia: @Porter_Anderson @BritishCouncil
- 3 Ways to Reach Your Writing Goals: @AlyssaColeLit @NaNoWriMo
- How to Use Scrivener for NaNoWriMo: @Gwen_Hernandez @JamiGold
- 16.67 Ways to Juice Your Daily NaNoWriMo Word Count: @theladygreer @WriterUnboxed @NaNoWriMo
- 6 Ways to Balance NaNoWriMo and Your Life: by Gianna Maria @NaNoWriMo
- The Spouse’s Guide to NaNoWriMo: Juggling Life and Writing in November: by Thomas Hardy @Janice_Hardy
- 30 Tips for Conquering Your 30-Day Writing Challenge: by @JessZafarris @WritersDigest @PiSquare @Metal_and_Earth @ganymeder
- How to Break the Rules for the Best NaNoWriMo Ever: @weems503
- National Novel Writing Month — 4 Tips to Help You Laser-Focus on Your Writing: @_TJ_Rigg @NaNoWriMo
- How to Write More Words: Winning at NaNo: @MegLaTorre @AngelaAckerman @NaNoWriMo
- Write Your NaNoWriMo in a Flash: @Lindasclare
- “My body is conspiring against me winning NaNo”: @Vampyr14 @OpAwesome6
- 11 Tips to Beat Procrastination and Get that Novel Drafted: @AnnieNeugebauer @LitReactor
- Problematic Classics: Four Questions to Ask When Beloved Books Haven’t Aged Well: @mattmikalatos @tordotcom
- 5 Books That Explore the Monstrous: @fran_wilde @tordotcom
- 8 Books about Alien Invasions that Take Place Outside the U.S.: @tadethompson @ElectricLit
- “How I Sold 7000 Kindle Books”: @KarenBanes
- 11 Steps to Writing a Bestselling Novel (Infographic): by Brendan Brown
- 5 Practical Goals for Writers to Avoid Overwhelm: @LiveWriteThrive
- Post-Publication Blues: @zooshka
- How to Handle Criticism: 3 Strategies to Make Criticism Work for You: @joslynchase_
- How to Make Peace with 5 Common Writing Struggles: @colleen_m_story
- Why Writing is Like Drinking Tea: @victoria_grif7
- Maybe There Are Two Separate Muses? Writing Fiction And Non-Fiction From The Heart: @thecreativepenn
- Working In a New Series (When You’re Already Writing One or Two):
- 12 Authors Who Are Actually Making Twitter Good: @erinkbart @ElectricLit
- Overcoming Self Doubt: @StoryADayMay @WriterUnboxed
- Writing and the Creative Life: Three Types of Creators: @GoIntoTheStory
- You might be a writer if… @amabaie
- Five Steps to an Improved Writing Process: @MelanieMarttila @DIYMFA
- 13 ways to prevent overwork from affecting your writing: @pubcoach
- Horror books scarier than their movie adaptations: by Elliot Hopper @TMB_Tweets
- How To Scare Your Reader: 11 Tips From 11 Horror Writers: @WilsonTheWriter
- ‘The mysterious stranger’ as an element in crime fiction: @mkinberg
- Tips for Writing Small Town Police Departments…Correctly: @LeeLofland
- Siblings as an Element in Crime Fiction: @mkinberg
- Communicating with Poetry: The Search for Deeper Meaning: @WritingForward
- Rhyming Poems: Types of Rhymes: @WritingForward
- Script To Screen: “Heathers”: @GoIntoTheStory
- Great Scene: “Good Will Hunting”: @GoIntoTheStory
- Screenwriting: the best way to approach pitching: @GoIntoTheStory
- How to Market Your Books with a Specialist Blog: @crimewriter1 @IndieAuthorALLI
- 3 Sure Fire Ways To Find Your Audience as a Blogger: @evy_mann
- Peter Rabbit to Come to Life in Augmented Reality Via Inception’s Bookful App : @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- 6 Things You Should Know About When To Self-Publish: by Rebecca Langley @standoutbooks
- Rights Roundup: From Global Population Issues to Fascism–and Some Welcome ‘Finesse’: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- China Bestsellers for September: Classics Reign, Adjacent to Cinematic Tie-Ins: @Porter_Anderson @trajectory
- Industry Notes: Jon Fine Leaving Open Road; Baker & Taylor’s Devasar Leads Publishers: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Italy in China: Bologna Children’s Book Fair Co-Organizes Shanghai’s Fair: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Rights Roundup: ‘Properties from Sweden, Cuba, Argentina, Spain, France, Italy, and Brazil’: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Publishers Discuss Brazil’s Endangered Bookstore Companies: Livraria Cultura and Saraiva: @Porter_Anderson
- Words Without Borders November: Listening Out for Vietnam: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @wwborders
- ‘Blogging is Not a Crime’: International Organizations Issue Unified Demand for Mohamed Mkhaitir’s Release: @Porter_Anderson @IntPublishers @pubperspectives
- Agent Myth Busters: 5 Common Misconceptions About Literary Agents: @CariLamba @marielamba @WritersDigest
- How to Write a Query: Specific vs. Vague Conflict (Video): @MegLaTorre
- Character Development: Character Death and the Ultimate Sacrifice: @carlyn_at @FantasyFaction
- Top 10 Links To Help You With Characterization: @Bang2write
- Five Tips for Characters That Go Against the Flow: by Faith Okamoto @mythcreants
- Your Character’s Unmet Need: @AngelaAckerman
- 5 Conversations You Should Have With Your Protagonist(s): @jcwalton24 @DIYMFA
- How Do You Decide Who Your Protagonist Is? @SnowflakeGuy
- Dialogue tags and how to use them: @LouiseHarnby
- Formatting Dialogue in Fiction: @Janice_Hardy
- Use Speaker Tags and Beats Correctly: @AndreaMerrell
- Delivering Scares in Cozy Mysteries and Other Genres:
- Is Your Writing As Good As You Think It Is? @Bang2write
- Breaking Writing Rules Right: “Don’t Use Passive Voice”: @SeptCFawkes
- Seven Deadly Fight Scene Sins: from How to Fight Write
- 4 Essential Ingredients in Every Powerful Story: @writingthrulife
- 10 Modern Proofreading Tips for Content Marketers: by Stefanie Flaxman @copyblogger
- How Much Editing Does a Book Really Need? @JodyHedlund
- 5 Things Re-Editing Your Older Work Can Teach You: @joannaslan
- Critique Partners vs. Beta Readers: @AmrenOrtega
- Lessons Learned from a Writing Critique: by Sylvie Soule @LiveWriteThrive
- How to Analyze a Scene: @valerie_francis @StoryGrid
- Organic Coherence: Enhancing A Scene’s Effectiveness: by Barbara Linn Probst @WomenWriters
- 4 Ways To Write Dynamic Character Descriptions: @LisaHallWilson
- How To Describe Settings – and Why It Matters: @BrynDonovan
- How to Build Suspense: @themaltesetiger
- Writing tense dialogue: 5 ways to add arresting tension: @nownovel
- Writing Tools: Speech to Text Software – Is It Right for You? @writingthrulife
- 24 Must-Have Writing Tech Tools: @TheLeighShulman
- How to Streamline Your Writing With The Scrivener Inspector: @kristen_kieffer
A lot of NaNo tips this week! I’m not participating but I’m definitely focusing on writing.
A lot of them, for sure! Good luck with your writing…so glad you’re back at it!
Lots of great links this time, as always, Elizabeth – thanks. I’m especially interested in the ones on keeping the creativity going and not getting overwhelmed. If you let it, writing can feel like an impossibly daunting task. It’s good to have ways to manage that.
Overwhelm can be easy, too. Some good suggestions this week for overcoming it. Have a great week!