Twitterific Writing Links

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 40,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers.

Have you visited the WKB lately?  Check out the new redesign where you can browse by category, and see the character and location name generators! 

Creativity and Inspiration / Goal setting

• Jumpstart Your Writing Career in 2017: by Fae Rowen

Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration

• How Being Bored Out of Your Mind Makes You More Creative: @pomeranian99 @WIRED

• How to Use Uber to Improv Better Stories: @TheRyanMcRae

• Writers: Discovering What You Love: @woodwardkaren

• Love-Based Money and Mindset for Author Entrepreneurs: @MichelePW @lornafaith

• Transforming the First Sentences of Famous Short Stories into Literary Star Charts: @rougeux @Lizstins

• Dear Writer: Why You Need to Get Out into the World: @emi1y_morgan

Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Fitting in Writing

• How to End Every Day Feeling Accomplished: @MichaelHyatt

• 5 Strategies For When You Don’t Have Time For Your Dream: @10MinNovelists

• 5 Tips for Turning Your Day Job into a Secret Writing Office: @GiveMeYourTeeth @LitReactor

Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Writer’s Block

• Writing Roadblocks: How to Get Unstuck: @Lindasclare

Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Writing Quickly

• A Challenge to Writers: The Balance Between Dreaming and Working: @AnnieNeugebauer

• Putting the “Professional” in Professional Writer: @KelsieEngen

• How to Write Better Faster (podcast): @cksyme

Creativity and Inspiration / Writing Life

• How to Keep Stress from Destroying Your Creativity: @colleen_m_story

• 5 Reasons Police Officers Make Great Writers: @claremackint0sh @SignatureReads

• Thanking Influential Teachers: Cumberbatch Reads Camus’ Letter to His Elem. School Teacher: @openculture

Genres / Horror

• Horror: Strategies for Hiding and Revealing Your Antagonist: by Mac Childs

Genres / Miscellaneous

• On Representation in RPGs: @booksofm @jimchines

Genres / Mystery

• Writing the Crime Scene: Arson: @repokempt

• English vs American Murder Mysteries: @woodwardkaren

• DNA and Other Forensic Evidence: Reliable or Fallible? @debbimack @SueColetta1

• Crime fiction set in NC: @mkinberg

• Pedigreed families as elements in crime fiction: @mkinberg

• How to write characters working in forensics: by Bad Forensic Fiction

Genres / Poetry

• Poet Activists Throughout the Years: @My_poetic_side

Genres / Science Fiction

• How To Become A Master of Writing Science Fiction: by Ryan Turpin @SciFi_Addicts

Genres / Young Adult

• How to Write With a Teen Voice: @Janice_Hardy

Promo / Ads

• 3 Ways to Improve Your Facebook Ads: @LarryAlton3

Promo / Blogging

• What use are blog analytics? They tell an interesting story: @sgc58

Promo / Miscellaneous

• How to Use Fiverr to Create a Book Trailer: @ThereseWalsh

• 3 Skills Every Author Needs to Sell More Books: @cksyme

• Should You Use Kindle Pre-order? @loishoffmanDE

• 7 Tips for Using Swag to Promote Your Book: @ceciliaedits

• Planning the Perfect Release Marketing Tip Video Series: @JAHuss

Promo / Newsletters

• 3 Approaches to Email Marketing for a Book Launch: @bkmkting

• 5 Steps to Set Up Your Blog and Email List: @lornafaith

Promo / Social Media Tips

• On Using Memes to Market Books: @RogerDColby

• 7 Ways To Get More Out Of Pinterest: @woodwardkaren

Promo / Speaking

• 5 Strategies for Dealing with Speaking Anxiety: @Exec_Speak @livequiet

Promo / Websites

• 10 Must-Know Website Tips & Tricks for Writers: @lwlindquist @tspoetry

• 10 Easy Steps for Creating an Awesome Website: @Bookgal @BwkrSelfPublish

Publishing / Miscellaneous

• How to Email an Illustrator: @IllustrationAge

• Why the Internet Didn’t Kill Zines: @jennydeluxe @nytimes

• Advice on Writing a Novella Collection: @pattywrites on @NovelRocket

Publishing / News / Amazon

• https://t.co/EHAmyYA10j will now come in Spanish, too: by Ben Rubin @PassiveVoiceBlg

Publishing / News / International Publishing

• Rights Watch: Books Headed to London Book Fair’s Rights Center: @Porter_Anderson

• Amazon Publishing at London Book Fair: Literary, Suspense, Memoir: @Porter_Anderson

• IPA’s Michiel Kolman on China: ‘A $10 Billion Concern’: @Porter_Anderson @michielams

• Hay Festival plans a new children’s literature festival for October: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives

Publishing / Options / Self-Publishing

• 3 Important Things To Know About Self-Publishing: @Laura_VAB @RMFWriters

Publishing / Options / Traditional Publishing

• How to Escape the Slush Pile by Brandon Taylor @ElectricLit

• 3 Questions to Ask Before a “Revise and Resubmit”: @besscozby

• How to Stay Positive on Your Path to Getting a Book Published: @almccall @thewritelife

Publishing / Process / Legalities

• Using Gucci and Other Trademarks in Your Writing: @HelenSedwick

Writing Craft / Beginnings

• What’s most important at the story’s start: plot, characters, or world? by Plot Hotline

• What “Starts with Action” Really Means: @angiehodapp

Writing Craft / Characters / Antagonists

• How To Make The Reader Trust Your Villain: @standoutbooks

Writing Craft / Characters / Development

• 3 Character Development Questions for Writing About Jobs You’ve Never Done: @jeffelk

Writing Craft / Characters / Protagonists

• Why Should Your Readers Care About Your Protagonist? 11 Questions to Find Out: @thewritingkylie

Writing Craft / Characters / Supporting Characters

• Creating Stunning Side Characters (and Why They Matter): @SeptCFawkes

Writing Craft / Common Mistakes

• What Bad Writing Looks Like and How to Fix It: @aliventures

• Real Life Diagnostics: Does This Character Introduction Work? @Janice_Hardy

Writing Craft / Diversity

• Representation Matters: A Literary Call To Arms: @tinytempest

Writing Craft / Flashback and Back Story

• On Writing Flashbacks (video): @Ava_Jae

Writing Craft / Lessons from Books and Film

• Making Your Protagonist the Antagonist: Robert Siegel on The Founder: @CreativeScreen

• “Comic books can teach writers how to tell a self-contained story within a larger arc.” @DrWarsh @ReedsyHQ

• 7 Exceptional Books to Read in Times of Grief: @rosmance @SignatureReads

• 5 Things Writers Can Learn From Reading Fairy Tales: @MihiBlue

• Authors on Illness: 5 Books Destigmatizing Cancer: @lequincampe

• 9 Stories That Continue After the Adventure: by Stubby the Rocket @tordotcom

Writing Craft / Literary Devices

• Interview with an English Teacher: The Heroic in Literature: @annkroeker @tspoetry

• The 4 Main Characters As Literary Devices: @Writers_Write

• How To Strengthen The Theme Of Your Book During Edits: @StephMorrill

Writing Craft / Miscellaneous

• Is Robert Frost’s advice to writers brilliant or disastrous? @emma_darwin

• Author @barrylyga on writing in different genres and in darker themes: @TheIWSG

• The Writer’s Guide to Time Travel: @amabaie

Writing Craft / POV

• Writing in third person limited: @jasonbougger

Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Plotting

• 12 Story Plot Twist Ideas: @ZoeMMcCarthy

• 4 Reasons Why Authors Shouldn’t Be Nice In Their Stories: @10MinNovelists

Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Research

• Down the Research Rabbit Hole: @RobinStorey1

Writing Craft / Punctuation and Grammar

• Writing Tenses: 5 Tips to get Past, Present and Future Right: @nownovel

• How Did English End Up With There/Their/They’re? @mental_floss @arikaokrent

• The Oxford Comma: Great For Listing, Pontificating, And Winning Court Cases: @colintdwyer @NPR

• 3 Cases of Too Many Commas: @writing_tips

Writing Craft / Revision

• Kill Your Darlings: But First You Have to Find them: @RosanneBane

• 8 Tips for Seeing Your Novel with “Fresh Eyes”: @HarrietWriter @WomenWriters

Writing Craft / Revisions / Critiques

• How to Hold an Excellent Critique Group Meeting: @Lindasclare

• How to brief a Beta Reader for amazing results: @Belinda_Pollard

Writing Craft / Settings and Description

• There are No Throwaway Details: @p2p_editor

Writing Craft / Special Needs

• 4 Tips On Writing An Awesome Disabled Character: @Bang2write

Writing Craft / Synopses

• Tackling the Dreaded Synopsis: @jkolin27 @OpAwesome6

Writing Craft / Tension

• Ratcheting Up The Tension: by Shawn Coyne

• How To Create Conflict Between Multiple Antagonists: by Hannah Collins @standoutbooks

Writing Tools / Apps

• The search engine for writers: redesigned. Now search by category: @Hiveword

• Using Scrivener with Story Genius: @Gwen_Hernandez

Writing Tools / Resources

• Free Training on Book Promotion Strategies: Wed 3-15 at 3:00 PM ET: @ReedsyHQ

• Free webinar on recording your own audiobooks: @JFbookman

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