by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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- 5 Tips for Teaching Creative Writing: @hwrightwriter
- 9 Tips on Writing to Publish: @psthib @ZoeMMcCarthy
- Simplify Your Submissions to Literary Journals: @JohnSibleyWill1 @JaneFriedman
- Israel’s International Book Forum Opens With Joyce Carol Oates’ Jerusalem Prize: @Porter_Anderson
- Fondation Jan Michalski’s Second ‘Bibliotopia’ Weekend Starts Friday: @Porter_Anderson @JanMichalski
- The UK’s CrimeFest 2019 Honors Shukla, Lippman, Rowling: @Porter_Anderson @CrimeFest
- France’s Prix Monte-Cristo’s Inmate Jury Awards Its First Honor: @oliviasnaije @pubperspectives
- IPA’s Africa Seminar in Nairobi: Maha Bakheet on Copyright: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Frankfurt’s 2019 StoryDrive Asia in Beijing: AI and the Culture’s Future: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Re-establishing a Writing Habit After Dropping One: @DanBlank
- You Have Time to Write — You Just Aren’t Making It a Priority: @MegDowell
- Why you need your own pomodoro: @pubcoach
- Writing Is a Habit. That’s Why So Many People Can’t Do It. @MegDowell
- 6 Ways You Can Overcome Writer’s Block: by Joel Syder @NaNoWriMo
- Unlocking Writer’s Block: @mishy1727 @TheIWSG
- “How I Trained Myself to Write 25,000 Words Every Week (and Why I Did It)”: @MegDowell
- Productivity Secrets: Bullet Journals and Planning: @leslyepenelope @JamiGold
- Writing Sex for Money: by Sandra Newman @lithub
- Headbutts, snark and furious obsession: a toxic history of literary rivalries: @tallulahloorah @GuardianBooks
- This Labor Was Never for You: Sex and the Small Press: @KMarieDarling @The_Millions
- Not All Writers Can Afford Rooms of Their Own: @asjaba @lithub
- Rising Above the Average as a Writer: Regression Toward the Mean: By Dario Ciriello
- How to Make Writing Fun Again: @Frank_McKinley
- 8 Ways to Stay Mentally Fit and Mindful in the Writing Process: @brtherapist @WritersDigest
- Tips for Journal Writing: by Deborah Lyn Stanley
- How to Use the Writing Skills You Have to Learn the Ones You Don’t: @ArkadyMartine @tordotcom
- How to Decide Which Writing Project to Focus On: @colleen_m_story
- A Home of Her Own – How Jane Austen Found the Space to Write: @C_Goodmania @WomenWriters
- Writing About a Fictional Massacre as a Real One Happens in Your Neighborhood: @MollyPascal @lithub
- When Fiction Doesn’t Work—What Can Be Learned? by Bonnie Randall
- Author @NathanEnglander on Writing and Worrying:
- Crime Writers’ Words of the Day: Make Your Stories Bleed Realism: @LeeLofland
- The Psychology of Suspense: @RJJacobsAuthor @CrimeReads
- “Soap Operas Taught Me How To Write Crime Fiction”: @Michael2264 @CrimeReads
- The Rise Of The DIY Screenwriter: by by Tony Ritter @CreativeScreen
- Script To Screen: “Psycho”: @GoIntoTheStory
- How to Use Pre-Publication Planning To Sell More Books: @SusanNealYoga @EdieMelson
- Seven Questions To Ask When Building Your Author Brand: @elawilliams_ @DIYMFA
- IPA Names Jessica Sänger To Lead Copyright Committee: @Porter_Anderson @IntPublishers
- Wolff’s ‘Siege’ To Release June 4, Sequel to Trump Exposé ‘Fire and Fury’: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Quick Tip: Condensing Characters (video): by Chris Fox
- Mary Sue Test: Does Your Character Pass It? by Ali Hale @writing_tips
A nice variety of writing articles this week.
Thanks, Alex!
Thanks, as ever, Elizabeth, for the great collection of links. Some very helpful ones this week on managing it all, which I always appreciate. Nice to know how others put it all together.
Flog a pro – LOL. Love that title.
Isn’t it great? :) Once I recognized the beginning of a book as one I’d just finished reading. It was by an author I always read and I don’t think I registered how bad the beginning really was!