Category: Twitterific

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

A weekly roundup of the best writing links from around the web.

Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 39,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers.

 

I did have a new book release Tuesday. :)  Find out more about Fall to Pieces here.

Business / Miscellaneous

• Make Wise Investments In Your Author Business @cksyme

• Why More Writers Should Talk About Money @manjulamartin

Creativity and Inspiration / Miscellaneous

• Creative Lessons Learned From Podcasting Since 2009 @thecreativepenn

• Writing Skills @KarenCV

Creativity and Inspiration / Goal setting

• Choosing a One-Word Theme for Your 2017 @RoniLoren

Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration

• How to Avoid Sabotaging Your Creative Process @amcarley

• How To Always Have Something Awesome To Write About @ThePaigeDuke

• Why Focusing on the Present Can Make You More Creative @livequiet

Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Fitting in Writing

• Tracking your activities for increased productivity @Write_Track

• 5 ways to make time to write when you’ve got a busy family @jasonbougger

• 3 Ways To Change Your Thinking About Writing Time and Productivity @rsmollisonread

Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Writer’s Block

• 5 Reasons to Thank Your Resistance to Writing @RosanneBane

• 5 Steps for Getting Out of a Creative Rut @EJWenstrom

Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Writing Quickly

• A Method to Manage Writing Projects @jkwak

• 5 Weird Ways to Get Yourself Writing @DIYMFA

• 6 Ways to Increase Your Productivity as a Writer Without Burning Out @jenlouden

Creativity and Inspiration / Writing Life

• 5 Tips For When You Have Too Much to Do @zen_habits

• 6 Packing Tips for Writers Who Want to Hit the Road @Kristen_E_Pope

• 5 Ways to Combat Author Anxiety @WritersDigest

• 7 Thoughts For Writers Struggling With Depression @RebekahGyger

• Why to Keep Your Day Job After Becoming a Best-selling Author from @johngreen @GoinsWriter

• Into the Writing Vortex with Jo March & Louisa May Alcott, 1869 @2nerdyhistgirls

• Writing Friends and Where to Find Them @besscozby

• How Do You Want Your Novel to Change the World? @jmunroemartin

• How To Get Your Partner To Support Your Writing @standoutbooks

Genres / Miscellaneous

• 5 Reasons Genre Matters @MarcyKennedy

Genres / Fantasy

• On Thud and Blunder in Heroic Fantasy: by Poul Anderson

• 5 Horrifying Monsters That Aren’t Vampires, Zombies or Werewolves @repokempt

Genres / Historical

• Balance Fact and Fiction When Writing Historical Novels: by Jack Woodville London

Genres / Horror

• 5 Books About Human Horror @jarockauthor

Genres / Mystery

• Insomniacs in crime fiction @mkinberg

• How Safe Is Your Character? @JacquiAnnWard

Genres / Picture Books

• Tech Tools to Help Produce & Sell Children’s Books @carlaking

Genres / Poetry

• A Self-Published Poet’s Path to Her First Book Deal @JaneFriedman with Amanda Lovelace

Genres / Young Adult

• 4 Tips on Creating Pitch Perfect YA Characters @AmyFosterHere

• 5 Key Ingredients All YA Novels Must Have @katiemccoach

Promo / Miscellaneous

• What not to wear on TV @pubcoach

Promo / Ads

• How To Get Your Sales Moving With Facebook Ads @davidpenny_

Promo / Blogging

• 8 Ideas for Adding Additional Content to Your Blog @NonfictionAssoc

• 5 Free Tools to Improve Your Blog @KarenBanes

• How to Use Your Blog as an Author Platform @SukhiJutla

Promo / Newsletters

• Why You Need a Newsletter @AP_Fuchs

Promo / Websites

• Make Your Website Interactive to Gain New Readers @EbooksAndKids

Publishing / Miscellaneous

• The Hard Truth About Publishing—What Writers & Readers Need to Know @KristenLambTX

• 3 Things One Debut Writer Wishes She’d Known @LizbethMeredith

Publishing / News / Data

• Record Number of Libraries Surpass 1,000,000 eBook and Audiobook Checkouts in 2016 @OverDriveLibs

Publishing / News / International Publishing

• What Canada’s Shelfie Data Suggests About Ebook Subscriptions @HudPeter

• Firebrand Buys Canada’s Enthrill, HarperCollins Withdraws Crowley Book @Porter_Anderson

• Publishing Partnerships @Porter_Anderson

• An English Translation of a Japanese TV Series Based on a Swedish Book @Porter_Anderson

• Growing Russian Market Looks to Educational and Children’s Books in 2017 by Eugene Gerden @pubperspectives

• DBW 2017 Opening Themes @Porter_Anderson

Publishing / Options / Self-Publishing

• 9 Steps to Self-Publish Your Print Book Using CreateSpace @lornafaith

Publishing / Options / Traditional Publishing

• An agent on how far she reads into a manuscript @Janet_Reid

Publishing / Options / Traditional Publishing / Querying

• How to Write a Query Letter to an Agent @KellyDSmith

Publishing / Process / Book Design

• Master Your Genre’s Book Cover @sacha_black

Publishing / Process / Distribution

• Q&A with Pronoun @pronoun

Publishing / Process / Legalities

• Rights Management @Porter_Anderson

Writing Craft / Miscellaneous

• 4 Essential Mind Tricks for Writing to Persuade @jeffelk

• How to Write a Great Story @JaneFriedman

• Storytelling @woodwardkaren

• Screenwriting Techniques To Transform Your Novel @djwilliams316

• How to Make “Write What You Know” Work for You @krisriggle

• 10 Rules of Writing @patverducci

• Advanced Craft Tips @PBRWriter

• Weak Verbs are the Path to the Dark Side @p2p_editor

• Using Mentor Texts With Students @MelanieMeehan1

• How To Tailor A Story To Readers @woodwardkaren

Writing Craft / Beginnings

• 4 ways not to start a novel @jasonbougger

Writing Craft / Characters / Antagonists

• 3 Essential Factors to Make Your Villain 3D @RuthanneReid

• Writing Killer Descriptions – First Impressions @mythicscribes

• 10 Ways To Create Dangerously Nuanced Antagonists @Writers_Write

Writing Craft / Characters / Arc

• How Character Attributes and Flaws Work Within Character Arc @AngelaAckerman

Writing Craft / Characters / Development

• Create a Character Readers Can’t Help But Care About @woodwardkaren

• The Why & How of Character Motivation @mythcreants

• 8 Key Female Archetypes to Consider for Your Novel @CSLakin

Writing Craft / Characters / Protagonists

• 6 Subversive Heroes for Stand Out Stories @mythcreants

Writing Craft / Dialogue

• Overusing Names in Dialogue @MarcyKennedy

Writing Craft / Lessons from Books and Film

• 6 Best Cocktails From Classic Literature @ElectricLit

• 10 Neo-Noir Films to Influence Your Fiction @wickerkat

Writing Craft / POV

• Writing Through a Character’s Eyes @NovelEditor

Writing Craft / Punctuation and Grammar

• 5 Necessary Comma Uses @lisajlickel

Writing Craft / Revision

• How to Streamline Your Editing Experience @MissConstance21

• 14 Words That Are Hurting Your Writing @Janice_Hardy

• 19 Self-editing Tips @WordDreams

Writing Craft / Revisions / Critiques

• 5 Steps To Hiring A Freelance Editor @espressoeditor

• 3 Ways Your Beta Readers Are Right (and Oh-So-Wrong!) @KelsieEngen

Writing Craft / Scenes

• How to Write a Perfect Scene @CSLakin

Writing Craft / Settings and Description

• How Novelists Can Infuse Their Scenes with Color @CSLakin

• Four Dimensional Settings: by Shawn Coyne

Writing Craft / Voice

• How Finding Your Voice Can Inspire New Novels @SWilliamsAuthor

Writing Tools / Miscellaneous

• Describing Words Finds Adjectives For the Noun You’re Writing About @LordRavenscraft

Writing Tools / Apps

• How to Learn Scrivener Fast @lornafaith

• 20 Apps for Writers Who Want to Get Serious @ChristelleWrite

From My Blog:

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• Another Go at Pre-Orders – by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig This is my third post on pre-orders. As you …

 

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by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

A weekly roundup of the best writing links from around the web.

Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 39,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers.

Happy Holidays! I will be taking a blog break until I return two weeks from today for an especially long Twitterific that will include my top shared links for 2016.  :)

Conferences and Events / NaNoWriMo

• Editing Your NaNoWriMo Novel @_theverbs

Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration

• Creativity Prompts for Writers, Journalers, Artists and Speakers @WritingReader

• Ways for Caregivers To Support Children’s Writing Lives @MelanieMeehan1

• Nurturing Our Notebook Work @rdgtchr13

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