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Twitterific Writing Links

Twitterific, Writing Tips

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engineBlog (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 30,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers.

Happy Thanksgiving to my blog readers in the States! I’m taking the rest of the week off to spend time with family. See you again next Sunday. :)

Use Cadence in Your Writing:  http://ow.ly/UE2Zs @MargieLawson

Writing About Love: Ditch the Cliches & Turn Up the Heat:  http://ow.ly/UE3gG @kristenlambtx

Rick Riordan cheers end of book covers that ‘whitewash’ his black hero:  http://ow.ly/UV3Zh @alisonflood @guardianbooks         Continue reading

Twitterific Writing Links

Twitterific, Writing Tips

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engineBlog (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 30,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers.

Lots of NaNoWriMo posts this week as many writers prepare for the challenge of writing a book in the month of November. :)

Flash Fiction Exercises for #NaNoWriMo Prep:  http://ow.ly/U29kl @_AliciaAudrey

#NaNoWriMo Prep: 6 Tips:  http://ow.ly/U28bP @ceciliaedits

#Nanowrimo Prep: Story Elements for Brainstorming Index Cards:  http://ow.ly/U28sg @AlexSokoloff

3 Tips For Writing Moms To #NaNoWriMo With Success: http://ow.ly/U29O7 @MichelleLim24

#Nanowrimo Prep: What’s the PLAN? http://ow.ly/U29Qz @AlexSokoloff     Continue reading

How To Write Dialect

Writing Tips

by Bill Hopkins, @JudgeHopkinsUnfinished grave

How many times have you read in an otherwise excellent book that a character “spoke with a heavy accent” or something similar? Too many, is my guess. Everyone (you, me, everyone you know) speaks with a heavy accent. What determines a heavy accent is who is listening! If the person listening speaks the same as you, then you won’t notice an accent. If the person listening has never heard anyone speak like you, then YOU have a heavy accent.

Let me give you an example, using my accent, which is upland south.

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The upland south accent can be heard in the hills and mountains of the American South and, in fact, in most of Southern Illinois and Southern Indiana and Ohio. Think of the way The Beverly Hillbillies spoke. (Lowland South, on the other hand, is what Scarlett O’Hara spoke.)Continue reading

The ‘How’ of the Writing

Writing Tips

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraigred_coat

For someone who doesn’t think of herself as much of a speaker, I’ve been very busy with speaking engagements in the last few months.  I’ve got less than two weeks before my next talk, this time at a North Carolina high school.  An English teacher invited me (I have a very difficult time turning down high school English teachers…my father was one) to speak during lunchtime to a group of kids who were interested in creative writing.

I asked the teacher what she’d like me to speak on and she mentioned a variety of different topics.  Then she said, “They mostly struggle with the how of it.”

Which I remember.  I remember poring over writing books and thinking, okay, this is all fine, but how do I do this?

The sad thing is that now I’m in the same boat—the how is no longer a problem, but how do you explain how?Continue reading

Twitterific Writing Links

Twitterific, Writing Tips

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engineBlog (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 30,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers.

Stop sweating the synopsis and write it:  http://ow.ly/T7oW8 @hollyrob1

The Evolving Literary Agent: What Savvy Writers Need to Know:  http://ow.ly/T7oQS @JaneFriedman

5 Books About Imaginary Religions:  http://ow.ly/T7pyy @tordotcom  by Michael W. Clune

Weaving a Tapestry of Page-Turning Story:  http://ow.ly/T7oXH @Saboviec             Continue reading

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