Twitterific Writing Links

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

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

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Business / Miscellaneous

• 2016 Novelist Income Survey Final Results and Data: @jimchines

• “Cataloging” Your Book : @MaryGillgannon @RMFWriters

• How much should editing cost? @pubcoach

• Does a Writer Really Need a Professional Development Plan? @AnnOttoAuthor @WomenWriters

• 15 Tips for Authors Running Webinars: @JFbookman

• What To Do If A Website Has Stolen Your Work: @standoutbooks

Conferences and Events / Miscellaneous

• What not to do at an author festival: @Elfwriter

• Tips, dos and don’ts for attending writing conferences: @SusanKelley @TheIWSG

• A Closer Look at April’s PubTechConnect Conference: @Porter_Anderson

Creativity and Inspiration / Goal setting

• Jumpstart Your Writing Career in 2017: by Fae Rowen

Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration

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

• How to Use Essential Oils: A Guide for Writers: @claireswinarski @thewritelife

• When You Don’t Feel Like Writing: @victoria_grif7

• Be the Encouragement to a New Writer: @JoEberhardt

• 5 Tips For Cultivating Creativity In Writing: @rsmollisonread

• 5 Tips to Help You Fall in Love with Creating Again: @emi1y_morgan

• Notorious Literary Muses from Best to Worst: @knownemily

• Music as The Writer’s Muse: @Caliskaniverse_

• My 4-Step System for Hacking Your Creativity: @ink_and_quills

• Why Writers Benefit from Using Creative Visualization: @VoicetoStory

• How Objects Inspire Fiction: @AnneLParrish

Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration / Reading as Writers

• 8 Ways To Read More, Even When You’re Deep Into Your Own Manuscript: @cnoepagan

Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Fitting in Writing

• 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

• A Mindful Guide to Email in 20 Minutes a Day: @zen_habits

• How Productive Writers Start The Day: @sidsavara

• 5 Secrets to Writing Despite a Day Job: @JerryBJenkins

Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Writer’s Block

• 6 Self-Imposed Limitations That Prevent You from Publishing: by Elizabeth Lee

• Got writer’s block? @Lin_Manuel has a playlist for you: @michaelschaub

Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Writing Quickly

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

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

• Writing Process: Get it Organized, Get it Done: @davidpenny_ #IndieAuthorFringe

Creativity and Inspiration / Success

• Success requires collaborators: @DanBlank

• How to Turn Elements of Your Novel Into a Masterpiece: @ESimsAuthor @WritersDigest

Creativity and Inspiration / Writing Life

• How to Overcome Unique Challenges as a Highly Sensitive Writer: @colleen_m_story

• The 5 Types of Teenage Writers, and the Best Ways to Teach Them: @lindseyleej @SignatureReads

• Dare to Write: @annkroeker

• Why You Can (And Should) Keep Writing When You Have Children: @aliventures

• 67 Rules for All Writers to Live By: @ToddBrison

• Encouragement for the Mother Who Writes: @StephMorrill

50 Great Details For the Setting Of Your Victorian Novel: @BrynDonovan

Make Writing Dreams Come True: @Lindasclare

“In writing, there’s more than 1 way to do just about anything”: @cathyyardley

Genres / Historical

Genres / Horror

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

• Horror Writing: Prevent the Romantic Storyline from Strangling the Scary: by Mac Childs @HorrorWriters

• H.P. Lovecraft’s Process for Writing a Horror Story, or Any Piece of “Weird Fiction: @openculture

Genres / Memoir

• How novelists adapt to writing memoir: @writerjeangill @MsBessieBell @Roz_Morris

Genres / Miscellaneous

• On Representation in RPGs: @booksofm @jimchines

Genres / Mystery

• Pedigreed families as elements in crime fiction: @mkinberg

• Tips for better suspense: @SueColetta1

• Defending dissertations as an element in crime fiction: @mkinberg

• Noir is the Perfect Genre for Telling a Millennial Story: @therealeharnett @lithub

• 8 Ways A Thriller differs from a Mystery: @woodwardkaren

Genres / Non-Fiction

• 3 Copywriting Tips to Help You Sell More Nonfiction Books: @thecreativepenn

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 / Screenwriting

• A screenwriter’s analysis of “Arrival”: @CockeyedCaravan

• Character Introductions in Screenwriting: @GoIntoTheStory

Genres / Young Adult

• How to Write With a Teen Voice: @Janice_Hardy

Promo / Ads

• 3 Ways to Improve Your Facebook Ads: @LarryAlton3

• Is Paid Advertising Right For Your Book? @pbackwriter @OrnaRoss #IndieAuthorFringe

• Book Marketing: Using Amazon Ads to Grow a Newsletter List: @ArtConnectsUs @thecreativepenn

Promo / Blogging

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

Promo / Book Descriptions and Copywriting

• Improve Your Book Descriptions and Audience Targeting: @JaneFriedman #IndieAuthorFringe

Promo / Book Reviews

• Real Writers Get Bad Book Reviews. Here’s Why That’s OK: by Michael Alvear @thewritelife

• ‘You Have Such an Ugly Baby’: Tactfully Reviewing Books You Don’t Love: @iamagemcrystal

Promo / Crowdfunding

• How Crowdfunding Allows You to Experiment Outside Your Genre: @emilygrosvenor @JaneFriedman

Promo / Miscellaneous

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

• An agent on hiring a publicist: @Janet_Reid

• Use Short Stories to Market Your Novel: @jamesscottbell @StonehamPress #IndieAuthorFringe

• Writer, Promote Thyself: @cathychall

• Why EVERY Author Needs a Media Kit: @damselwriter

• Planning the Perfect Release: The Arc List: @JAHuss

• What’s New On Your Marketing List? @mollygreene

• DIY: Online Education as Book Marketing: @JaneFriedman

Promo / Podcasts

• 6 Best Podcasts For Writers Who Want to Sell More Books in 2017: @cksyme

Promo / Social Media Tips

• On Using Memes to Market Books: @RogerDColby

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

• Your Guide to Picture-Perfect Instagram Book Marketing: @Bookgal

• 9 Facebook Posts We Don’t Need to See From Authors: @Gabino_Iglesias

Promo / Speaking

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

Publishing / Miscellaneous

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

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

Publishing / News / Amazon

• Confessions of a paid Amazon review writer: by Yuyu Chen @Digiday

Publishing / News / International Publishing

• 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

• The Expanded British Book Awards: @Porter_Anderson @Porter_Anderson

• UK’s International Literature Showcase Names 2017 Participants: @Porter_Anderson

• Russian Librarians Warn of Crisis in Library Consolidation Plans: by Eugene Gerden @pubperspectives

• UAE’s Sultan Al Qasimi and Brazil’s Luiz Schwarcz Lead LBF’s Intl. Excellence Awards: @Porter_Anderson

• Titles Translated from 11 Languages: The 2017 Man Booker International Longlist: @Porter_Anderson

• Why e-readers were a disruptive innovation in the US, but not in Japan: by Mark E. Parry and Tomoko Kawakami

• Intl Publishers Assoc to Visit Georgia, Where Publishers Are ‘Heading to Annihilation’ @Porter_Anderson

• British Comics Publishers in Changing Marketplace: ‘We Want To Do More Comics’: @MarkPiesing @richjohnston

• A French-and-Arabic publishing exchange agreement signed in Paris: @Porter_Anderson

Publishing / Options / Self-Publishing

• Successful Self-Publishing? 5 Important Tips for New Authors: @theorganicwoman

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 / Options / Traditional Publishing / Querying

• 5 Tips for Querying & Choosing a Literary Agent: @BriannaShrum @WritersDigest

Publishing / Options / Traditional Publishing / Rejections

• How 10 Years Producing “Car Talk” Helped A Writer Deal with Rejection: @louiecronin @WriterUnboxed

• The 8 Most Common Reasons 1 Editor Sends a Rejection: @MissConstance21 @DIYMFA

Publishing / Process / Book Design

• Can Changing Your Book Covers Really Help You Sell More Books? @ADStarrling

Publishing / Process / Distribution

• Get Your Books Into Bookstores With Ingram Spark: @andysbromley @rcutlerSpark #IndieAuthorFringe

• How to Get Your Book Distributed: What Self-Published Authors Need to Know: @JaneFriedman

Publishing / Process / Services to Avoid

• Vetting publishers: @RWANYC

Publishing / Process / Translation

• Swedish Translator Sarah Death on the Translation Business Today: @DennisAbrams2

• Vote for Your Favorite French Books Translated to English: The Albertine Prize: @Porter_Anderson

Writing Craft / Beginnings

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

• What Penguin Random House Editors Look for on an Opening Page: by Phil Stamper-Halpin

• 8 Awful Ways To Start A Novel: @10MinNovelists

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

• Take Your Character to Work Day: @nicoleva @HighlightsFound

• 62 Character Flaws for Creating a Well-Balanced Character: @ev_scarlett

• Make Your Story Richer with In-depth Knowledge of Your Characters: @ReeseRyanWrites

• Clothing tells us much about a character: @monicamclark

• Walk a Mile in Your Characters’ Shoes: @bryngreenwood @WriterUnboxed

Writing Craft / Characters / Emotion

• How to Characterize Love in Your Writing: @WordDreams

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

• Large Character Casts: How to Put your Characters Temporarily Elsewhere: @ev_scarlett

Writing Craft / Common Mistakes

• Are You Making These Common Fiction Writing Mistakes? @KMWeiland #IndieAuthorFringe

• Reasons to avoid using dreams in fiction: @jasonbougger

Writing Craft / Dialogue

• Tighten Up Your Dialogue: @patverducci

• Action and Dialogue in Storytelling: @WritingForward

Writing Craft / Diversity

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

Writing Craft / Endings

• How to Write an Unforgettable Ending: by Neil B. Tafani @mythicscribes

Writing Craft / Flashback and Back Story

• On Writing Flashbacks (video): @Ava_Jae

• Tips for better backstory: @10MinNovelists

• Character Background: 5 Backstory Writing Tips: @nownovel

Writing Craft / Lessons from Books and Film

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

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

• Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in Today’s World: @MargaretAtwood @nytimes

• Tabletop Gaming and Storytelling: @judyblackcloud

Writing Craft / Literary Devices

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

Writing Craft / Miscellaneous

• Staying Organized While You Write and Finish Your Book: @writeabook

• 3 Vital Elements of Craft: Subplots, Scenes and POV: @hanque99 @MCBookTours

• How to tell if your writing is improving: 4 easy tips: @Peter_Rey_

• Making ‘artful audio stories’: tips for talking to strangers: @wendelpatrick1 @AaronHenkin @Transom_org

• Organizing Your Novel: @PBRWriter

Writing Craft / POV

• Writing in third person limited: @jasonbougger

• A Simple Trick to a Stronger First Person Narrative: @Janice_Hardy

Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Plotting

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

• Using the Forbidden Love Masterplot: @RobinRWrites

• Two Types of Writers: Plotters and Pantsers: @Amandajwills @reedsyhq

Writing Craft / Punctuation and Grammar

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

• 3 Cases of Too Many Commas: @writing_tips

• 4 Ways to Prevent Incorrect Tense Issues: @sacha_black

• Using Repetition to Produce Parallel Structure: @writing_tips

• Hyphenation Rules for 35 Prefixes (and 1 Suffix): @writing_tips

Writing Craft / Revision

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

• When Your Book Is Such A Mess You Don’t Know If It’s Worth Editing: @StephMorrill

Writing Craft / Revisions / Critiques

• 3 Ways a Critique Group Will Boost Your Writing: by Gayla K. Hiss @NovelRocket

Writing Craft / Settings and Description

• 7 Tips On Writing Realistic Settings: by Emma Johnson @WritersEdit

• Does Your Character Description Create A Powerful Image? @michael_hauge @AngelaAckerman

Writing Craft / Synopses

• Tips for Writing a Synopsis: @Ava_Jae

Writing Craft / Tension

• Ratcheting Up The Tension: by Shawn Coyne

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

Writing Craft / Voice

• How an Environmental Science Background Helped 1 Writer Find Her Writing Voice : @katebrandes3

• 4 Lessons for Discovering Your Writing Voice: @PaulaSMunier @WritersDigest

Writing Tools / Apps

• BuzzTrace: A New Platform To Help Writers Find Their Readers: @buzz_trace @sabsky

• Apps, Tools & Plugins for Indie Authors in 2017: @CaballoFrances

Writing Tools / Resources

• Time-saving tasks you can use with Find and Replace: Part I: https://t.co/Jm20A2fboQ and II: by Lisa Lines

• The new Amazon Author Insights site (via @AmazonKindle ):

Writing Tools / Thesauri

• Character Motivation Entry: Being Acknowledged and Appreciated By Family: @AngelaAckerman

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