Twitterific Writing Links

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

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• Confidence, Connection & Convergence: Self-Publishing Review 2018: @OrnaRoss @IndieAuthorALLI
• Editing: How to create compelling editing quotations: @LouiseHarnby
• The Fear and Joy of Writing on Proposal: @maryannmarlowe @WomenWriters
• Tokyo’s new Bunkitsu Bookstore With an Admission Fee: @Porter_Anderson @bunkitsu_rpng
• China Bestsellers for November: The ‘Double Eleven’ Sales Boost: @Porter_Anderson

• Tips for Oral Storytelling: @helpfulsnowman

• The Five Biggest New Year’s Resolution Mistakes and How to Avoid Them: @WriteNowCoach
• Trends For Authors And Creative Goal Setting 2019: @thecreativepenn
• Share Your Writing Goals to Increase Chances of Success: @colleen_m_story
• About Those New Year’s Goals: @RachelleGardner

• 9 Mysteries Set in The Immediate Aftermath of WWI: @jpwrites1 @CrimeReads
• How Book Maps Led to One Author’s Love of Fiction: @VaughnRoycroft @WriterUnboxed
• The Good, The Bad, and The Delicious: 20 Unexpected Literary Cookbooks: @knownemily @lithub

• 3 Tips from an Engineer to Help You Write Efficiently: @BMWtheCreative

• A defense of creative writing in the age of standardized testing: @JustinParmenter
• Jonathan Franzen’s 10 Rules for Novelists: @lithub
• Why Writing Friends are Important: @jodimeadows
• Tsundoku (Books piled everywhere): @austinkleon
• How to write if you have a long commute behind the wheel: @GoIntoTheStory
• What One Person Can Do to Get People Reading: @mattgrantwriter @lithub
• Writing and the Creative Life: Why Creative People May Feel More Anxiety: @GoIntoTheStory
• Creating Priority Lists When Everything Seems Important: @TheLeighShulman
• Is A Writing Retreat Right For You? by Paige Duke @standoutbooks
• Tips to Help Organize 2019 with Calendars and Apps:

• Jaime Lowe’s 8 Rules For Writing Memoirs: @kicklikeagirl1 @Writers_Write

• What is the “Core” for Your Genre? @davidfarland

• Script To Screen: “The Last of the Mohicans”: @GoIntoTheStory

• Get Your Blog Ready for 2019: @EdieMelson
• 12 Strategies for Blogging Your Way to Expert Status: @NinaAmir

• Your 2019 Book Marketing Plan, Month by Month: @NewShelvesBooks @BookWorksNYC
• 7 Ways to Use Bookmarks for Marketing Your Book: @KarenHWhiting @EdieMelson
• Create your author mood board in five minutes: @helpingauthors1

• What Is a Writer Platform and How Do You Build One? @ChadRAllen

• 3 Things To Know About Podcasts When You Know Nothing: @Writers_Write by Christopher Dean

• Bookstagram for Indie Authors: Strategy: by Laura Hartley @BookWorksNYC

• Using Props While Making a Book Presentation: @AuthorCathyLamb

• Books to Film: Josh Malerman’s Debut ‘Bird Box’ Lands on Netflix: @Porter_Anderson @JoshMalerman
• Tips for Winning Writing Contests: @FinishedPages @hopeclark
• Winter Issues: ‘Beyond the Book’ Looks at 2018 in Review: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @BeyondTheBook
• Be Careful Inputting Your Metadata on Amazon: by Gordon Long @IndiesUnlimited
• How to find your perfect co-writer (dead or alive): @LuWrites
• Copyrighted Treasures Move Into the Public Domain, on a ‘Snowy Evening’: @Porter_Anderson @DukeCSPD

• Self-publishing Role Models for 2018: @IndieAuthorALLI

• Public Domain Day Is Coming: On January 1st, 2019, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain for the First Time in 21 Years: @jdmagness @openculture

• 5 Questions on the Book Production and Marketing Matrix: @JFbookman

• Five Strategies for Getting Started: @davidfarland

• Character Arc and Narrative Arc: @VictoriaMixon

• Don’t Make Your Characters Do the Impossible: @ZoeMMcCarthy
• 4 Steps for Writing Realistic Protagonists Who Are Nothing Like You: by Donna Levin @WritersDigest
• Character Building with the Enneagram: @RDCwrites @RMFWriters

• Creating Likeable Protagonists: @davidfarland

• The 17 Best (and Worst) Cartoon Sidekicks of the 1980s: @cloudy_vision @tordotcom

• Five Common Storytelling Mistakes in the Pursuit of Social Justice: by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants

• 8 Ways to Make Your Characters Sound Distinctive: @LauraDiSilverio

• When Should A Story End? by PJ Parrish @killzoneauthors

• In Defense of Puns: @JamesGeary @parisreview

• How to Level-Up Our Writing: @craicer @JamiGold
• Don’t Overload Your Readers With Your Message: @writing_tips
• Tips for More Meaningful Stories: @writingandsuch
• 10 Non-Writing Things You Can Do To Improve Your Writing: @wendypmiller

• The Dual Plot Structure That Makes Stories a Success: by Chris Winkle @mythcreants
• How to Choose Your Story’s Plot Points: @KMWeiland

• ‘Flier’ or ‘Flyer’? @GrammarGirl
• Pronoun Order: @GrammarGirl
• Three Simple Rules for Pluralizing Names: @HopeTDougherty

• Read your way into editing your novel: @MsRachaelBlok @CurtisBrown
• See Oscar Wilde’s Handwritten Edits to The Picture of Dorian Gray: @lithub

• 3 Mistakes Writing Groups Make and How to Fix Them: @TCKPublishing

• How do you Describe a Place? 6 Setting Tips: @nownovel

• Ask the Editor: Tips for Identifying Your Story’s Narrative Voice: @writingrefinery @DIYMFA

• Keeping Track of Everything in Scrivener with Metadata: @Gwen_Hernandez

• 10 Podcasts every author needs in their life: @sacha_black
• 14 of the Best Online Writing Communities for Aspiring Authors: @ReedsyHQ

• How to Spreadsheet Your Novel: @StoryGrid

• The links I shared the last couple of weeks, plus my links that got the most engagement on Twitter in 2018:
• Show Don’t Tell Explained: Examples of Turning Bad Writing into Great Writing: @TCKPublishing

Remainder of the Top Tweets for 2018…the links I shared that received the most engagement on Twitter: 

How to Fix a Plot Hole in Your Novel (From 14 Writing Experts):  http://ow.ly/f1cR30mLx0M  @writingcookbook #TopTweets2018

Rights Roundup: A Handful of Titles for the Holidays:  http://ow.ly/EonV30mOqat  @Porter_Anderson @malusken @GuillaumePitron @SiriPettersen #TopTweets2018

A defense of creative writing in the age of standardized testing:  http://ow.ly/k2Tw30n8KCf @JustinParmenter #wkb31

3 Tips for Improving Show, Don’t Tell:  http://ow.ly/PXZB30mCVNr  @KMWeiland #TopTweets2018

Gave up on NaNoWriMo? Try a gentler, year-round writing challenge:  http://ow.ly/KCxp30mUUTN  @inkyelbows #TopTweets2018

9 Writing Tips for Beginners:  http://ow.ly/RJ1r30mTwMZ  @writingcookbook #TopTweets2018

Public Domain Day Is Coming: On January 1st, 2019, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain for the First Time in 21 Years:  http://ow.ly/z0p830n8Gqf @jdmagness @openculture #wkb5c

On The Many Visions of Voyeurism in Crime Fiction:  http://ow.ly/1QhE30mM4FR  @ClaireFuller2 @CrimeReads #TopTweets2018

What Writing Fanfiction Taught Me as an Editor:  http://ow.ly/CsAa30mCozO  @writersyndrome @UncannyMagazine #TopTweets2018

How to Use Swag to Support Your Book Marketing:  http://ow.ly/CgjB30mTxOs  @proflangley @JaneFriedman #TopTweets2018

How To Define Your Character’s Narrative: http://ow.ly/VW4V30mUBKI  @Writers_Write #TopTweets2018

6 Iconic Literary Road Trips in the US To Inspire Your Inner Creative: http://ow.ly/Ci3W30mLwSj  @WomenWriters #TopTweets2018