Twitterific Writing Links

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engineTwitterific Writing Links (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.

And Happy Mother’s Day to the mothers out there!  

How Far Back in Time Could You Go and Still Understand English? http://ow.ly/4n1WTw @scholarlykitchn

How Disaster Movies Creep Into 1 Writer’s Writing: http://ow.ly/4n1X24  @WomenWriters  @SamTongeWriter

How to be a Better and Happier Writer:  http://ow.ly/4n1X6N @MahinWriter

3 reasons why you should show your work:  http://ow.ly/4n1X8Y @austinkleon

On worrying about the scarcity of new ideas: comic from @inkyelbows: http://ow.ly/4n1XeZ

The Literary Spy Novel: 5 Recommendations:  http://ow.ly/4n1XmY @paulvidich @ElectricLit               

13 Ways Writers are Mistaken for Serial Killers:  http://ow.ly/4n1XzP @KristenLambTX

How Indie Authors Can Grow their Following on Twitter:  http://ow.ly/4n1XxB by @jessicadavis @theindiepubmag

How to Promote Your Book Without Being Annoying:  http://ow.ly/4n1Xq0 @egabbert

Friends as Enemies:  http://ow.ly/4n1Yr5 @beccapuglisi

Choosing Your Words Carefully: http://ow.ly/4n1YpR by Ursula Bloom @WomenWriters

First Draft Writing: 7 Tips for Easier Drafting:  http://ow.ly/4n1XlL @nownovel

Everything You Need to Know About 3rd-Person POV:  http://ow.ly/4n1YrP @KMWeiland

Done is Better Than Perfect When It Comes to First Drafts:  http://ow.ly/4n1Yar @hwrightwriter

Group Blogging: Humanize Your Blog to Drive Engagement:  http://ow.ly/4n1Xto @kikolani

An agent on novels with shorter than usual word count:  http://ow.ly/4n1Yg7 @Janet_Reid

A common problem with dialogue:  http://ow.ly/4n1Yul @storyfix

US-Based Copyright Clearance Center Buys UK’s Ixxus:  http://ow.ly/4nuD3r @Porter_Anderson @steveodart

Writing Building Blocks: Paragraph Breaks & Voice: http://ow.ly/4n1YkG @JamiGold

. @ThatKevinSmith on Screenwriting: http://ow.ly/4n3zTA and http://ow.ly/4n3zWj   @steveryfle

4 Types of Character Flaws:  http://ow.ly/4n3zyy @AngelaAckerman

Lessons From @jamesscottbell  : Characters That Jump Off The Page:  http://ow.ly/4n3zAi @AngelaAckerman

Poets: Use Your Skills to Nab Freelance Writing Jobs:  http://ow.ly/4n3zvR @Carolynesutra

Subsidiary Rights:  http://ow.ly/4n3zrY @SusanSpann

6 Books on Writing Science Fiction Compared:  http://ow.ly/4n1WQy by Chris Winkle @mythcreants

Harvard Book Store Partners with Canada’s Shelfie:  http://ow.ly/4nuCRH @Porter_Anderson @getshelfie

The Anatomy of a Print-Only Deal:  http://ow.ly/4nuyg5 @KatyRegnery

Success: –what exactly is it? http://ow.ly/4n1exn @dianapfrancis

Using Close-Ups in Your Scenes to Get Personal:  http://ow.ly/4n1ess @CSLakin

Writing fight scenes: knocking someone out without serious injury: http://ow.ly/4n1eyl from How to Fight Write

Writing Time And Place:  http://ow.ly/4n1etn @AnthonyEhlers

Making Money: Anthologies:  http://ow.ly/4n1evS @johnhartness

A Modern Literary Glossary: Definitions for Our Ever-Changing Reading World: http://ow.ly/4n1emg by Jacob Lambert

10 Russian Literary Heroines to Know:  http://ow.ly/4nsa1N @gmerades @thelithub

5 Ways to Use LinkedIn Publisher for Business:  http://ow.ly/4n1eea @LinkedInExpert

Creating Promotional Copy That Works: Tag Lines http://ow.ly/4n1eci @MarcyKennedy

Your Basic Author Media Kit:  http://ow.ly/4n1e8r @Sarah_Nicolas

How Any Author Can Update Their Book Data on BookBub: http://ow.ly/4n1e5a @DianaUrban

How to Write Better using our Multiple Intelligences: http://ow.ly/4mYFgM  @hunteremkay

7  Ways To Finish Your Story:  http://ow.ly/4mYCrt @Yeomanis

Writing Lessons From The Masters:  http://ow.ly/4mYCoY @jamesscottbell

Goodreads Introduces Kindle Ebook Giveaways Beta Program (U.S.): http://ow.ly/4nshbb @goodreads @suzanneskyvara

Spam, Spam, Spam Spam: Inkitt and the Grand Novel Contest:  http://ow.ly/4nsbJn @victoriastrauss

The Winners of the Best Translated Book Awards (BTBA):  http://ow.ly/4nsbxk @The_Millions

Engineering a Fiction Series:  http://ow.ly/4mYCuZ @ashkrafton

The book proposal: better late than lousy: http://ow.ly/4mYCiM @dglm

What Kind of Day Job Should a Writer Have?  http://ow.ly/4n1bLj @dana_cann @thelithub

An agent on having more than one agent:  http://ow.ly/4mYCfE @Janet_Reid

Love is Boring and Hard to Write About, And Yet…  http://ow.ly/4ns9OW @lydia_millet @thelithub

Using Preorders to Boost New Release Book Sales:  http://ow.ly/4mYAcc @melissafmiller

How to Attract Media Coverage for Your Book Launch:  http://ow.ly/4mYAgk @LisaLondon3

Creating Easy Branded Images for Your Blog and Social Media:  http://ow.ly/4mYzua @kikimojo

Revisiting your book marketing strategies:  http://ow.ly/4nq7tf  by Deborah Nam-Krane

How to Find Great Content Your Readers Will Love:  http://ow.ly/4mYzxU @CaballoFrances

11 Tips to help you build your online community:  http://ow.ly/4mYA6E @catmichaelsBook for @annerallen

5 reasons listening to audiobooks can improve our writing:  http://ow.ly/4mYAB6 @JasonMHough

A New Platform for Serialized Work: Tapas Media: http://ow.ly/4mYArR @JaneFriedman

Querying: when you realize the error AFTER you hit send:  http://ow.ly/4mYAmH @Janet_Reid

Build an Audience for Your Novel by Figuring Out Who Your Audience Is:  http://ow.ly/4mYzUO  @FauziaBurke

Share your talent instead of wasting it:  http://ow.ly/4mYAv2 @juliemusil

Posing like a man in author photos:  http://ow.ly/4mYzGT @AFilipacchi @nytimes

10 Things Authors Get Wrong When Writing About the Military:  http://ow.ly/4npgw9  @benjaminsobieck

3 Steps to Reinvigorating Your Writing:  http://ow.ly/4npgpJ @chicklitgurrl

Tap the Psychology of Conflict:  http://ow.ly/4mQN1t @JanalynVoigt

Crime Writers: 20 Survival Tips for Real and Fictional Officers:  http://ow.ly/4mV0wp @LeeLofland

Dialogue Words: 100 Alternatives: http://ow.ly/4mUXuG @nownovel

Launching Your Book (Without Losing Your Mind):  http://ow.ly/4mV0HV @GailZMartin

Colombian Cyclists: Bringing books and readers together: http://ow.ly/4nmCr6 @lagunalibros @adamcritchley @pubperspectives

How to Write Teen Girl Characters:  http://ow.ly/4mUYG0 @missnoraz  @thelithub

Protagonists: Superman Syndrome:  http://ow.ly/4nmqU3 @p2p_editor

AP Will No Longer Capitalize ‘Internet’ and ‘Web’: http://ow.ly/4nmvC0 @APStylebook @GrammarGirl

The new fiction of solitude:  http://ow.ly/4mUXMy by Nicholas Dames @TheAtlantic

Outlining With Scrivener:  http://ow.ly/4mUXls @Figures

The importance of theme, or, the Controlling Idea:  http://ow.ly/4mUXwl by Shawn Coyne

5 Ways Perfectionism Attacks Your Creativity:  http://ow.ly/4mV00h @emily_tjaden

7 things to avoid when you write for children:  http://ow.ly/4mUZCp @MiaJouBotha

4 Famous Writers Whose Prose Was Crap:  http://ow.ly/4mUYeS @cathinnorway

8 Time-Tested Personality Traits of the Best Poets and Writers:  http://ow.ly/4mUXXA by Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen

Writing Head Trauma: Can A Blow To the Head Cause Unconsciousness and Amnesia?  http://ow.ly/4nml8m  @DPLyleMD

Inner Conflict in Fiction:  http://ow.ly/4mQMXy @JanalynVoigt

Why Literature Needs Psychology:  http://ow.ly/4nkJVq @jenniferrenu @thelithub

Why You Should Write on Medium:  http://ow.ly/4nkRRL @joshspilker

International Identifiers: All About ISNI With Laura Dawson:  http://ow.ly/4nhlfG @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives

How a CharacterÂ’’s Choice of Clothing Benefits the Story:  http://ow.ly/4mTgh6 from It’s a Writer Thing

The Serious Lack of Diversity in Book Publishing:  http://ow.ly/4mTgIM @ilanaslightly  @broadly

16 Books About Madness:  http://ow.ly/4mTe4N @chris_shultz81

How 1 Author Writes History: http://ow.ly/4mTgwZ @nealbascomb  @thelithub

Crime writers: anatomy of an evidence room:  http://ow.ly/4mTdVW @LeslieBudewitz

9 Myths of Being a Published Author:  http://ow.ly/4mTdK2 @bclaypolewhite

Copywriting: A Critical Skill for Every Writer:  http://ow.ly/4mTdZA @terrywhalin

How Billy Joel Taught 1 Writer To Write: http://ow.ly/4nkJ0X @bwoodauthor @thelithub

6 Tips for Better Loglines:  http://ow.ly/4mTgne @dougeboch

The benefit of being a hybrid author:  http://ow.ly/4mTecl @michellecox33

7 Tips for Better Pitches:  http://ow.ly/4mTdGW @dougeboch

7 Ways To Overcome Destructive Self-Criticism: http://ow.ly/4mTdTX @colleen_m_story

The Speechwriter’s Checklist:  http://ow.ly/4mTdPx @Writers_Write

Talking Heads (Top 10 Dialogue Writing Mistakes):  http://ow.ly/4mQMU4 @JanalynVoigt

When characters make plans, how should you reveal them to your readers?  http://ow.ly/4nifl3 @lkblackburne

Types of Conflict in Literature:  http://ow.ly/4mQMOD @JanalynVoigt

5 Mistakes Self Published Authors Make in 2016:  http://ow.ly/4mQJNy @LPOBryan

9 Ways to Stunt Our Writing Growth:  http://ow.ly/4niac9 @EdieMelson

Is Your Use of Social Media Marketing Efficient?  http://ow.ly/4mQJHy @wendygarfinkle

The links I shared last week:  http://ow.ly/4niI6y .All the links I’ve ever shared (30K+, free and searchable): writerskb.com

Crime Writers: Eyewitness Testimony: Test Your Observation Skills:  http://ow.ly/4ni940 @SueColetta1

5 Common Writing Fears and How to Overcome Them:  http://ow.ly/4mQJBo @JanalynVoigt

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Elizabeth Spann Craig

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Elizabeth writes the Memphis Barbeque series (as Riley Adams) and the Southern Quilting mysteries for Penguin and writes the Myrtle Clover series for Midnight Ink and independently. She also has a blog, which was named by Writer’s Digest as one of the 101 Best Websites for Writers. There she posts on the writing craft, finding inspiration in everyday life, and fitting writing into a busy schedule.

10 Comments

  1. Alex J. CavanaughMay 8, 2016

    Spam, spam, spam – now I’m going to have that Monty Python song in my head all day!

    1. Alex–I know, right? Ha! And the article was so right…I’d gotten something from Inkitt, too.

  2. Margot KinbergMay 8, 2016

    Thanks so much for these great links, as always, Elizabeth. So many good ones on editing this week – I love it!

    1. Margot–Me too…always good to get editing tips. Have a great week!

  3. Deborah Nam-KraneMay 8, 2016

    Thanks for sharing my post!

    1. Deb–It was a good one! :)

  4. KirstenMay 12, 2016

    Thanks for linking to me. I’m blown away by this list!

    1. Elizabeth Spann CraigMay 12, 2016

      Kirsten–Happy to do it…great post! :)

  5. Colleen M. StoryMay 15, 2016

    Thanks, Elizabeth! Love Angela Ackerman’s “Lessons from James Scott Bell”—I got that book too and it was great.

    1. Elizabeth Spann CraigMay 15, 2016

      Colleen–I have another of Jim’s books, but not that one. Sounds good…I’ll put it on my TBR list. :)

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