Author: Elizabeth Spann Craig

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

If you’re a new writer or have recently decided to spend more time writing, you might be looking for other writers online.

Plugging into the online writing community can be very helpful for writers. Finding support and encouragement is probably the main reason, with accessing resources a close second.

I’ve recently been asked by a few newer writers where to find other writers online. There’s not one main watering hole. Here are some of the places writers hang out online:

Twitter: There are tons of writers on Twitter. If you put #amwriting or #writetips or #writechat into the search box on your home page, you’ll find writers. Or go to my followers. Almost all of them are writers.

Blogs: Blogs are great places to connect with other writers (find active blogs to follow, then branch out and follow folks in their blog rolls.) There are plenty of writing blogs in my sidebar to get you started.

Forums: Absolute Write , Writers Net, and Writing Forums, among others, connect writers with each other and with resources and information.

There are also Yahoo Groups that operate on an email loop (or you can choose to visit the group’s board). Just go to http://groups.yahoo.com/ and search for “writing” or the genre of your choice.

Facebook: Writers are all over Facebook. What I’d recommend is finding a blogging writer who has a Facebook account, friend them, then go to their followers’ list. You’re sure to find other writers there to friend….then repeat the process.

National organizations (USA): The Authors Guild is the oldest of the organizations for published authors. There are also many groups that are genre-specific: SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators), RWA (Romance Writers of America), MWA (Mystery Writers of America), ITW (International Thriller Writers), HWA (Horror Writers Association), Sisters in Crime, etc.

There are also local writing organizations. Some writers find it very rewarding to connect with other writers in person and exchange ideas about writing, publishing, and marketing. If you’re looking for an in-person group, it’s worth the few minutes to pop over to Meetup.com and type in ‘critique group’ and your location to see if there are groups in your area.

Writers conferences are a good, if frequently costly, way to meet other writers. Or you can participate in a free online writing conference like The Muse Online or challenges like the annual National Novel Writing Month and make writing friends there.

There are probably gobs of other places that I’m not mentioning here. Where are some of your favorite places to hang out with writers?

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

I’m always interested in finding new ways to get organized and take more control over my day.

Although I’ve been busier than ever with my writing and family life, my productivity has improved in all the different areas I’m juggling—home, as well as writing.

I’m pretty sure it’s because of my calendar.

The last time (April 2011) I wrote on this topic, I was still using a variety of different calendars—a wall calendar, a day-planner style calendar, and an online calendar.

A few months ago, I started using Google Calendar for almost everything. Lists of things to do, grocery lists, remembering the dog’s heart-worm pill…and now blog post ideas (as a sort of informal editorial calendar.) I’ve even put my supper plan on my calendar for each day–it reminds me to take whatever the meat is out of the freezer the night before to defrost in the fridge overnight.

I’ve also tried to go, if not paper-free, then paper-reduced. When the children bring home flyers from school or their activities, I transcribe the important bits into my Google calendar and then recycle the paper.

There are tons of calendar apps out there, but the point is to have something that you can easily change, update, and carry with you. It doesn’t have to be Google. When someone asks me now if I can drive children home from play practice/driver’s ed/elementary school, I take a look at my phone. Because Lord knows I can’t remember what I’m doing from one day to the next.

I also took this a step farther with my writing…with some excellent results so far. I’ve mentioned that I hate outlines, but I do love knowing what I’m planning on writing the next day. With my schedule, I need to hop right into the book when I find 15 free minutes. If I use those 15 minutes trying to figure out what scene I need to pick up with, and what I’m trying to accomplish, the writing time is quickly over without my doing any actual writing. So now I jot a line or two on my calendar to remind myself where I want to go with my story the next time I pick it up. If that 10 minutes of time happens to be while I’m waiting for my son to walk out of his high school, then I have my plan for the writing day with me on my phone…and I start right in.

Another nice thing is that this calendar is on a cloud. I can access it from anywhere. If I lose my phone or drop my phone in the sink or something, I can still recover my calendar. If I’m traveling, my calendar is accessible and able to be updated.

One other note–I’m trying an experiment with my calendar….working on more than 1 project at a time. I have two books due at nearly the same time this year, and I’ve never before been able to work on more than one book at a time. But if I’m being this organized and if I plan the next day’s writing for both books, I’m curious to see if it will work better. I’ll report back on the experiment later.

How are you staying organized and juggling all the things you need to do? Are you a calendar-user, too? What other tools do you use?

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

I recently got my copyedited manuscript back for the first Southern quilting mystery, which is releasing in June.

I was pleased with the lack of mark-ups on the manuscript. It was probably the cleanest doc I’ve ever gotten back.

Except for one major thing.

I had the most echoes I’d ever seen. Actually, it was an embarrassing number of echoes.

Editors (at least mine at Penguin), refer to repeated words as echoes. Echoes haven’t usually been an issue for me. And this manuscript was full of them.

I think it might be due to the number of times I picked up and put down the document while writing it. I had a full schedule at the time and wrote in very small chunks of time. That approach worked well, in terms of getting the book written. But, since I make a point of not reading what I wrote the previous day, this meant that sometimes I reused words that I’d just written (that I guess were fresh in my mind from the day before.)

An example from the first page of my manuscript: I reference a wild looking woman at the protagonist’s front door. Five lines later: I describe the woman’s wildly colored, mismatched clothes.

Some other repeated words: disastrous and disaster (4 lines apart), quickly (4 lines apart), chilled and chill (10 lines apart), honestly (2 lines apart), normally (2 lines apart), running late and run by (in the same line)….yes, the list goes on!

Amazingly, neither my agent nor my senior editor noticed the echoes in a read-though…but they were reading for content in those passes. Which just goes to show that copyeditors are worth their salt—and that we all can miss echoes unless we’re making special passes for them.

On the upside—they’re extremely easy to fix. I’d corrected the entire manuscript and returned it to my editor in just about 30 minutes. But I felt sorry for the poor copyeditor.

I’ve caught my own echoes before—that’s why I’ve never had a book returned to me with so many. These are the ways I’ve found them (and I use the same method to locate other errors):

Read aloud: You can either read your book aloud to yourself or load the manuscript on your e-reader and have the device read aloud to you.

Read in a different font: This drives me nuts after a while, but if I only plan on editing a chapter, I’ll put the one chapter in a different font. It makes the words look different and gives me a little distance from the document.

Use beta readers: Sometimes my betas will find these types of errors.

Make a special pass: This is my plan for my next manuscript. I’m going to make a special pass through the document, looking especially for echoes.

How do you find errors like echoes in your drafts?

Below are the writing-related links I tweeted last week.

The Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine, designed by software engineer and writer Mike Fleming, makes all these links (now over 12,000) searchable.

Sign up for the free monthly WKB newsletter for the web’s best links and interviews:http://bit.ly/gx7hg1 .

Ways to judge whether your character is likeable enough for readers: http://bit.ly/A7fc0A @lisagailgreen

Surviving the Publishing Industry’s Looking Glass: http://bit.ly/ABKZro @writerboyESPN

Do you have a marketing plan? http://bit.ly/yr66Yl @robeagar

10 Types of Hypercorrection: http://bit.ly/wNsR76 @writing_tips

Making Friends Without Making Them Feel Used: http://bit.ly/zlg5Mg @JodyHedlund

Your Top 12 Author Marketing Moves for 2012: http://bit.ly/Apz3G6 @writersdigest

Do You Know Your Characters? Do You Know Yourself? http://bit.ly/xuuwAu @curiosityquills

G is for Gerund: http://bit.ly/zMhAjH

6 Ways to Create Writing Goals That Stick: http://bit.ly/zBy8cQ @msheatherwebb for @krissybrady

Building emotional cues into scenes: http://bit.ly/wO6O4C @JulieWuAuthor @BTMargins

Your Top 12 Author Marketing Moves for 2012: http://bit.ly/Apz3G6 @robeagar for @writersdigest

J.K. Rowling’s Writing Process in Her Own Words, part 2: http://bit.ly/wAhxoA @shelleysouza for @HP4Writers

Being The Evil Overlord: http://bit.ly/yCJ51M @katepaulk for @sarahahoyt

How to create mood: http://bit.ly/wO5PxU

The 7 Components of Book Marketing Strategy: http://bit.ly/wJyYVF @JenniferAFusco

The Difference Between Dreaming and Starting: http://bit.ly/y9GRes @jeffgoins

An Agent on Why The Writing Process Trumps Everything: http://bit.ly/ApZ76j @greyhausagency

The drive to write: http://bit.ly/xOIit4 @kalayna

How to Catch More Life in Your Writing: http://bit.ly/AwWax7 @write_practice

Revision: A Fine Line Between Polish And Overkill: http://bit.ly/zZ9uKD

All my tweets from the past week: http://bit.ly/ADefRm

Goal setting for writers: http://bit.ly/xN8lba @eMergentPublish

Why perfect endings rankle: http://bit.ly/w5bSkr @SolomonAnna for @BTMargins

Why books make the best movies: http://bit.ly/xT6Bin

75 Synonyms for “Talk”: http://bit.ly/wikVpf @writing_tips

Playbook For Self-Promo: http://bit.ly/zIvrhK @bigblackcat97 for @WriteAngleBlog

Is Your Website Hurting Your Writing? http://bit.ly/xdzvGq @menwithpens for @thecreativepenn

Are readers really ready for the self-published author? http://bit.ly/ABbKWW @tonyakappes11

Writers–Will Work for Cheap: http://bit.ly/xPwbA5 @KristineRusch

When promo gets pushy: http://bit.ly/x5M8or @blurbisaverb

Genrefication: Romance, the Novel, and Literary Fiction: http://bit.ly/yWAfDX @JustBethanne

Giving our characters epiphanies: http://bit.ly/xSdi1H

Thoughts on setting writing goals: http://bit.ly/wagTru @/andrewgreybooks

Crime fiction–creating ordinary people for readers to pull for: http://bit.ly/xWx5Uw @mkinberg

An Authors’ Guide to the Almighty 3% Rule: http://bit.ly/AcinQw @TweetTheBook

Approaching Success or Avoiding Failure? http://bit.ly/xHyYU2 @WriteNowCoach

4 Ways To Develop Your Authentic Voice For Book Marketing Success: http://bit.ly/wgEhnt @Beth_Barany

Using small questions to get past a block with your manuscript: http://bit.ly/wvuje5 @SusanSquires

Using data to develop a social media strategy: http://bit.ly/wTK4bf @andrewphelps

9 Villains in Literature & Film–& Making Your Own Better: http://bit.ly/y1Ffcr @joebunting

Making Backstory Work for You: http://bit.ly/xSlkv4 @janice_hardy

Your YA Protagonist–Some Dos and Don’ts: http://bit.ly/wFvt0j @Kristi_Cook

What stillness reveals: http://bit.ly/AwqPXc @OllinMorales

For the disorganized writer: How to tackle clutter: http://bit.ly/xistZ7 @zen_habits

How to Find Your Inner Sadist: http://bit.ly/yRpH7O @Ava_Jae

Just because they offered you a contract doesn’t mean you need to take it: http://bit.ly/xwEsfP @behlerpublish

Why You Should Add E-mail Subscription Service to Your Blog: http://bit.ly/wnRoC6 @JaneFriedman

When authors are swallowed whole by their books: http://bit.ly/wWOxR1 @FebruaryGrace

Finding time to blog *and* write: http://bit.ly/Amg1gL @dirtywhitecandy

The author/reviewer relationship: http://bit.ly/zFFOOl @YAHighway

How to generate a year’s worth of content in an hour: http://bit.ly/ygz6JJ @viperchill

5 Ways to Bring Your Blog into the Spotlight: http://bit.ly/yYMkXT @youngprepro

Don’t Drown Your Reader in Explanations: http://bit.ly/x8hecT @KMWeiland

Commenting On Reviews: A Different Type of Author Intrusion: http://bit.ly/z67817

How Images Improve Blog Traffic: http://bit.ly/zrVW6y @robertleebrewer

Weekend Writing -Writing as a Second Job: http://bit.ly/A8mxGs @camillelaguire

Possible Problems and Obstacles for Superheroes to Face Besides Supervillains: http://bit.ly/A6yNNe

The New World of Publishing: Writer vs. Author: http://bit.ly/A8crBJ @deanwesleysmith

Pros and Cons of Multiple First Person: http://bit.ly/xRBn8i @Janice_Hardy

Story structure–set-up: http://bit.ly/wcpzOx @rebeccaberto

Your new writing blog: avoid these faux-pas: http://bit.ly/y8fATp @dirtywhitecandy

Use a Rewrite to Add What Your Story Lacks: http://bit.ly/w1g5jE @noveleditor

12 Ways To Give Your Career A Jump Start For 2012: http://bit.ly/xUzbMJ @lilywolf

How to Develop a Successful Multi-Author Blog: http://bit.ly/yOFu4v @smexaminer

The Loneliness of the Icelandic Translator: http://bit.ly/xLtcvS @oliviasnaije for @pubperspectives

What Costco can teach us about writing: http://bit.ly/z2IxR5 @JulieMusil

How to Buy eBooks from an Indie Bookstore: http://bit.ly/zvRYV5 @galleycat

Lord of the Rings: The Revised Edition: http://bit.ly/AfJz7T @ChrisDolley

How to Make Chapters for a Novel Manuscript in Microsoft Word 2010: http://bit.ly/xHTeg1

Hooks, Loglines, and Pitches: What Every Writer Needs to Know: http://bit.ly/zQF8Z7 @AnneRAllen

Revive Your Creativity by… Not Being Creative: http://bit.ly/w2Ys7A @misfitsmascara

Blogging (or writing) with kids–9 tips: http://bit.ly/zlQKtn @WritingH

Why Bequeathing Your Intellectual Property is Crucial: http://bit.ly/wsvyvQ @DebraPurdyKong

Unleashing creativity begins with a timeline of your past: http://bit.ly/AxuGlb @tobywneal

Technical Aspects of Creating A Nontraditional Ebook: http://bit.ly/yyMumV @indieauthor for @thecreativepenn

Tips for preparing your doc for epublishing: http://bit.ly/wSPl2K

1 writer on what she likes about romantic suspense: http://bit.ly/wSPl2K

10 New Year Resolutions For Writers (that might actually stick): http://bit.ly/x3f84x @ajackwriting

Stabilizing Influence: http://bit.ly/xK0luH @Ravenrequiem13

An agent’s tips for aspiring memoir writers: http://bit.ly/Ajfpap @rachellegardner

3 Secrets to e-Book Cover Design Success: http://bit.ly/xmoHlX @jfbookman

Literary Devices to Help Writers Who’ve Lost the Plot: http://bit.ly/yo66Wi

The Mirage of Fixity — Selling an Idea Before Understanding the Concept: http://bit.ly/zEr7QE @scholarlykitchn

6 Dos and Don’ts for Busy Parents Who Blog: http://bit.ly/z8Ijy8 @writeitsideways

Getting The Most From A Critique: http://bit.ly/Anbf1d @marcykennedy

A Tested Social Media Success Formula: Talk as Yourself, Not about Yourself: http://bit.ly/AALRCB @danzarrella @copyblogger

Worldbuilding with Horses: Preindustrial Revolution: http://bit.ly/z9RsUc @dancinghorse

Stop Waiting to Be Picked: http://bit.ly/w9TIYs @JeffGoins

35 Genres and Other Varieties of Fiction: http://bit.ly/w7rHN6 @writing_tips

Which League Are You Playing In? http://bit.ly/wP4op7 @bob_brooke

Reasons to give writing poetry a go: http://bit.ly/yccQ85 @eMergentPublish

How Not To Mutilate A Foreign Language: http://bit.ly/zCMH8B @StinaLL

5 things 1 writer wishes she’d known before she sold her manuscript: http://bit.ly/z85mIz @PBRWriter

When is your manuscript ready to be sent out: http://bit.ly/w1Z5E6 @lisagailgreen

10 signs you’re not in the writing zone: http://bit.ly/yVNPYg @elspethwrites

Tips for better book openings: http://bit.ly/wxAQXo @anasleuth

Tips for writing dialogue tags: http://bit.ly/wiwFUq

Approaching agents who rejected you…after you’ve gotten an offer from a publisher: http://bit.ly/wmniWF @bookendsjessica

5 Narrative Mistakes You Can Fix Right Now: http://bit.ly/wut7Hy @EliseRome for @RoniLoren

Tips for creating effective characters: http://bit.ly/yLYc2t

Making a living writing–1 writer’s story: http://bit.ly/wngwmt @MeredithEfken for @HowToWriteShop

Show Editors & Agents How You Meet Their Guidelines: http://bit.ly/z9irTQ @greyhausagency

Knowing Where to Start Your Novel: http://bit.ly/xa6zwU @Janice_Hardy

Why the internet is a trap – and how 1 writer deals with it: http://bit.ly/xJoEFu @JulietteWade

How to mine your childhood for story gems and more: http://bit.ly/AcYp23 @CAMorganti

Subtext: What is this Story Really About? http://bit.ly/xAfj1C

Story ideas–what they are, what they’re not: http://bit.ly/xzrNcB @SarahAHoyt

Apple v. Amazon,libraries & piracy, authors & e-rights–& more top ind. news from @Porter_Anderson for @JaneFriedman: http://bit.ly/y9VFI0

Top Ten Made-Up Literary Couples: http://bit.ly/yhSbiU @deadwhiteguys

Author Rex Pickett on Surviving Rejection: http://bit.ly/xMLCIz @GalleyCat

Advice for authors from social media guru Seth Godin: http://bit.ly/yc0Xqr @passivevoiceblg

Proper Nouns vs. Pronouns: http://bit.ly/zDEzmA @KeliGwyn

A Model for Crowdsourced Publishing: http://bit.ly/wnMGRm @mightyscoo for @JaneFriedman

Thoughts on staying motivated when writing that first novel: http://bit.ly/zb3Ljn @KatieGanshert

Build Your Author Brand in 5 Easy Steps: http://bit.ly/yuCGR5 @scribblinghappy

How to Explore Your Characters’ Motivations: http://bit.ly/yK7Ix1 @write_practice

How to Make Sense of Critiques: http://bit.ly/AbAxu5 @DiyMia

An Industry for Arts Graduates Who Can Count: http://bit.ly/xD8n9S @PassiveVoiceBlg

Writing on the Ether’s @Porter_Anderson features: @johnemcintyre @DonLinn @lizcastro @michellelegro @naypinya : http://bit.ly/y9VFI0

Daily writing vs. weekday writing: http://bit.ly/wDH9nP @camillelaguire

Finding a good balance for crime fiction endings: http://bit.ly/wzDWe3 @mkinberg

Tips for moving forward with your manuscript after getting stuck: http://bit.ly/x6AWUj @alanorloff

Vocabulary has to be true to our POV character (and familiar to our target reader): http://bit.ly/yxdmXP @authorterryo

An Author’s Guide to NetGalley: http://bit.ly/zvWdVQ

What Star Wars “A New Hope” Can Teach Us About In Medias Res: http://bit.ly/z2pzfV @KristenLambTX

Fewer copy editors means embarrassing errors in newspapers: http://bsun.md/z60zzA @johnemcintyre

The Same River Twice: On Rewriting Your Past: http://bit.ly/yvZe3C

10 Ways Writing Fiction is Like Performing for a Camera: http://bit.ly/wcye8l @victoriamixon

Are New Tablets Slowing The Growth Of E-Readers? http://bit.ly/zmnrJ7 @laurahazardowen

5 Things You Have To Think About Before You Self Publish: http://bit.ly/Alu1Y1 @Ajackwriting

7 Tools for Tracking Ebook Sales: http://bit.ly/xmmY03 @PYOEbooks

Games Agents Play: http://bit.ly/xSKcL2

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

I’ve gotten a good number of questions lately via email and Twitter about my platform on Twitter. I came up with a Twitter policy last year (which sounds funny to say, but it became necessary—I’d get well-meaning messages from folks asking me to tweet their book releases), but I haven’t posted anything about it for a while. I thought today that I’d dust it off and give it another run:

How did you start tweeting links and why?
I was reading a lot of writing links and it seemed like it would be helpful to pass on ones that I thought were especially good. That snowballed until I had followers that were very interested in a variety of writing-related tweets. These were writers in different stages of their writing career—some just starting out, some veterans. So I started searching for good, solid posts—even if they were on topics that didn’t directly apply to what I’m writing.
It’s a platform for me, too, and provides a very indirect way of marketing and getting my name out there—and being indirect is really the only way I feel comfortable with promo.

How do you find the links?
I don’t get them from my Twitter feed—I actually subscribe directly to the writing blogs’ RSS feed and read them in my Google Reader.

How many blogs do you subscribe to and how do you browse them?
According to my Google Reader, I subscribe to 2318 blogs. I add to this number every single day. I have my Google Reader set on “list” view and I scan through them quickly—usually looking for writing craft-related posts or publishing news. I don’t tweet promo posts or contests or giveaways. But if you write a wonderful post with interesting content for writers and you happen to have a giveaway or contest at the bottom of the page…that’s fine, of course!

How long does it take you to find posts, read them, and tweet them in a day?
It usually takes a little over an hour each day.

Are you on Twitter all day?
Actually, no—I usually just check in with Twitter a few times a day. If I have more free time, I check in more frequently.

How do you schedule tweets?
I use an application called “Social Oomph” to schedule my tweets. The idea is to spread them out through the day so that they’re (hopefully) not overwhelming and are reaching people in other time zones.

Why aren’t you following me back?
I follow legitimate users back, although sometimes I get a little behind with updating my list. If I’m not following you, then I think you’re a spammer or else you’ve just started following me. If you’re not a spammer, just send me an email at elizabethspanncraig(at)gmail(dot)com.

What’s the best way to contact you?
I check my DMs on Twitter at least once a day, but you can also email me at elizabethspanncraig(at)gmail(dot)com.

I have a great writing blog—how can I bring my blog to your attention?
I’m always looking for new writing blogs to add to my Google Reader. Just send me a DM or an email with your link and I’ll subscribe to the RSS feed.

How do you pick which posts to run?
I’m usually looking for craft-related, industry-related, social media, or posts on how to effectively promote. I love posts that are easily skimmed, have great content, and can be helpful to a lot of writers.

Can you tweet my book review?
I don’t tweet reviews, sorry.

(From PR firms, who do like to contact me): What is your marketing strategy behind these tweets? Does it seem to be working?
There wasn’t a whole lot of marketing thought that went into this, which is why I’m probably getting so many DMs from PR people! I’m focusing on the tweeting mainly as a service to other writers, but I am gaining a nice platform in the process. It seemed to work out really well with pre-orders for my last book.

Do you read your tweet stream?
Honestly, I find my tweet stream totally overwhelming. If I try to read or follow all those incoming tweets then it makes me feel like I have ADHD. :) I follow over 10,000 and I can blink and find 20 updates.

What if I wrote a great blog post and you didn’t notice it—can I bring it to your attention?
Sure—feel free to DM me with it. I can’t promise to run it, but I promise to take a look…and I’ll make sure I subscribe to your feed.

If I wrote a great post a few days ago and tweeted you about it and it hasn’t run, will it ever run?
Sometimes I schedule tweets way out—sometimes a week or more…so it might still run.

Do you @ all of the blog post authors whose links you tweet?
I’m trying. Some of them I do know by heart, if they frequently have good material. Sometimes the post’s author isn’t on Twitter and sometimes I just can’t find their handle, if they are on Twitter. If your “Follow Me on Twitter” is very visible to the top of your blog page, then you’re a lot more likely to be @ed.

Do you ever chat on Twitter?
I don’t ever @ anyone in conversation…but I do have DM conversations with people. I’m just trying to keep my Twitter profile page completely link-related so make it an easier resource for folks to access.

What types of posts are most likely to be tweeted by you? Which are most popular and most likely to be retweeted by others?
Craft posts and clever humorous posts are the top favorites of my followers. List posts are appreciated, too. Anything that’s helpful about social media, or organizing our writing life helps, too.

Is there a way to make my blog posts more likely to be tweeted by you or by others?
Definitely. I’d recommend a post title that is clear as to the post content, an RSS feed button, and avoiding partial RSS feeds (I usually don’t have time to click through to find out if the content is worth tweeting). I’d also recommend a non-rambling post, concise content, and something that’s easy-t0-scan (bullet points and bold type helps.)

Some days your links seem better than others. How do you do quality control?
Sometimes, despite the large number of blogs I subscribe to, there’s a lack of content out there. Holidays play into that, too. And…sometimes I’m busy and I have less time to hunt through my Reader.

Do you do #FF and #WW? Why not?
I used to, but with the number of followers and FFs and WWs I get now, I’m just not able to return the favor without sending out an entire page of spam. I really appreciate the ones I get from followers, though!

Is there a place where I can locate these links or search them?
All of my links are searchable through the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine. Designed by Mike Fleming, the database ensures that great content and resources for writers can be pulled up on an as-needed basis (which means writers don’t have to bookmark everything!) The Writer’s Knowledge Base is free and has over 13,000 links to search.

And now…a disclaimer (I know–so corporate-sounding…)
Occasionally I’ll tweet links that I think show an interesting point of view on, or controversial approach to, writing or the publishing industry. This doesn’t necessarily mean that I agree or disagree with the post’s author–just that I think the discussion is interesting and believe that others would, too. I want to supply writers with different ideas and different opinions on different topics and letting them disseminate the information for themselves.

Now it’s your turn. :) Are you on Twitter or Facebook? What makes you decide to share or retweet a writing post?