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Twitterific Writing Links

November 30, 2014November 29, 2014Twitterific, Writing Tips

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 23,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers.

Hope my American friends had a happy Thanksgiving!

How to Make a Character Moodboard: http://ow.ly/EQSKb from A Not-So-Classically Trained Writer

Character Date Ideas: http://ow.ly/EQSKc @CherylRWrites

Who’s Your Ideal Reader? http://ow.ly/EQSKf @rachellegardner

Crafting the Perfect First Line: http://ow.ly/EQSKg @AuthorKeller Continue reading

Dealing With Writer’s Block

November 28, 2014November 27, 2014Motivation and the Writing Life

by David Khara, @DavidKhara

I wish I received a dollar every time someone asked me if I suffered from writer’s block—in France, they call it “the blank page syndrome.” You know, those moments when you want to write, you are ready to write, but you can’t seem to write a single word. Ideas keep coming to mind, but don’t seem to make sense. Or worse, every time you write a sentence down, you immediately erase it because you simply hate it.

Actually, I do no suffer from this syndrome, probably because I started writing novels at a fairly advanced age. Still, when I worked in advertising, I had this problem.

I was 21 at that time, and luckily enough, my boss taught me something that made quite a big difference, something I still believe in today: not writing is already writing.Continue reading

Going from ‘Pantster’ to Outliner

November 24, 2014November 23, 2014Business of Writing

by Elizabeth Craig, @elizabethscraig

I loved the organic, ‘pantster’ approach to writing. I followed the genre-determined general structure (meet victim, meet suspects, question suspects…) and then happily made up each story as I went along.

This worked really well until I started writing three books a year…a book each for several different series. Then, apparently, I was juggling too many balls at once and I had to give myself more of a plan to follow.

I’ve got a post up on Writer Unboxed, which is a great resource for writers if you’re not familiar with it. My post covers how and why I changed to outlines and what I learned from the experience, analyzing my results. Hope you’ll pop over.

Twitterific Writing Links

November 23, 2014November 22, 2014Twitterific

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

Examples of using kernel ideas to write your book: http://ow.ly/EqgzV @bob_mayer

The missing author mystique–authors and social media: http://ow.ly/EGq4O @Porter_Anderson @writerunboxed Continue reading

Free Help With Graphic Design

November 21, 2014November 21, 2014Tools for Writers

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

I’m design-challenged. & happiness (1)

I learned this early. My father was a teacher and when I was in elementary school, one of my father’s friends (also a teacher) knew I was very creative and asked me to create a back-to-school bulletin board for her students.

I loved the huge box of art supplies that she brought over. Tissue paper, construction paper, markers, stickers, stencils. I loved it. But I didn’t know what to do with it. I ended up making a tissue paper flower that was about 6 inches in size. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to make an entire bulletin board and fill up all that space. The teacher had to scrap the idea.Continue reading