by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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A couple of notes today: First off, thanks to Feedspot for naming my blog one of the Top 50 Mystery Blogs.
Also: I’m taking a summertime blog break for a couple of weeks. No regular blog posts from me until July 31st, but I’ll be back here next week on the 23rd (and again on the 30th) with my Twitterific roundups. Then I’ll be back starting the 31st with blog posts on confirming newsletter subscribers, evaluating a series, reviewing a writing year in progress, and thoughts on teaser chapters. Hope you have a great couple of weeks!
- 10 Things 1 Author Did Right As a Debut Novelist: @manzanitafire
- How to Write a Book: @woodwardkaren
- Music as a companion while writing: @Gwen_Womack @Roz_Morris
- 6 Websites with Great Writing Prompts: @ToddBrison
- What a Week of Pro Tennis Taught About Writing: @barbarajoss
- How Taking a New Path in Writing Can Fire Up Your Muse: @LizandLisa
- ‘Reading My Namesake’: on Titus Groan: @tituschalk @FantasyFaction
- These Hand-Drawn Maps Helped Create ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books: @slaskow
- 5 Sci-Fi Stories for Crime Writers: @NikKorpon
- Long Break from Writing? Getting Back in Shape Quickly: @NickThacker
- Staging a Book Blitz: @barbaraoneal @WriterUnboxed
- Ways Writers Can Hack through Distractions: @CSLakin
- John Grisham’s Do’s and Don’ts for Writing Popular Fiction: @JohnGrisham @nytimesbooks
- 10 Ways to Make Readers Happy: @kayelleallen
- 5 Lessons Learned Between Books 7 & 8: @mollygreene
- How to make money writing fiction: 11 tips: @JeffCars0n @LouiseHarnby
- Writing Life Humor: Why You Should Always Proofread your Email One More Time: @inkyelbows
- Only Writing Is Writing, Right? Wrong! @RosanneBane
- Yes, You Can Learn To Write Better Fiction: @jamesscottbell
- Clearing Hurdles with Writing and LIfe: @FinishedPages
- Will working in publishing help a career as a novelist? @Janet_Reid
- Stealing Time to Write: @SiouxR
- Get that Creative Euphoria Without Alcohol or Drugs: @colleen_m_story
- Why Don’t Some Writers Take Time Off? (And Why You Should): @Jenn_Mattern
- Why All Poems Are Political: @KathleenOssip @ElectricLit
- On Sound and Rhythm: Teaching Poetry to Youth: by Jack Collum @PoetryFound
- How to Write Romance Beats: @gwenhayes @lornafaith
- Creating a Swoonworthy Beta Hero: by Elizabeth Harmon @RomanceUniv
- Title vs. Character Names: by Joel Haber @scriptmag
- The best time in a script to handle a character’s backstory: @GoIntoTheStory
- Great Scene: “Good Will Hunting” : @GoIntoTheStory
- Brand Identity (Branding/Discoverability): @KristineRusch
- How to Create and Market your Author Platform For Free: @BadRedheadMedia
- Self-Publishing Professional: How To Sell Your Services: @angee
- CreateSpace vs KDP Print: @SassyZenGirl
- Platforms: @Draft2Digital Challenges ACX; Hungary’s PublishDrive at Google: @porter_anderson
- Can You Make A Living as a Freelance Writer? @AGHackney
- Russia’s 10 Favorite Children’s Books of 2016: @DennisAbrams2 @pubperspectives
- Startups: The Spanish Bookstage Rights Platform Closes This Month: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- IPA Condemns Verona Mayor’s Books Censorship Agenda: @Porter_Anderson @michielams
- Canada’s $75,000 Cundill Prize Names Jurors: Record Submissions: @Porter_Anderson
- ‘An Examination of Convergence of Digital Tech. and the Cultural Context’: @porter_anderson @axflowers
- Audience Engagement: New Report on European Book Fairs: @porter_anderson @aldusnet
- Unicorn Acquires Chambers Retrospective; IPR License Signs Lang, ICE: @porter_anderson @pubperspectives
- The Truth Behind Popular Copyright Myths: @SusanSpann
- Book Disclaimers Don’t Have to be Boring: @HelenSedwick
- Digital Piracy & Illegal Downloads: Author Options: @HelenSedwick @BookWorksNYC
- How to Tell if You’ve Received a Genuine Publishing Offer: @Belinda_Pollard
- The Vanity Press Trap: How to Avoid & Recoup the Damage: @carlaking
- 10 Ways To Show Your Character’s Emotions: @AngelaAckerman
- Characters Are Affected by Events: @NovelEditor
- How to Calculate Your Book’s Length Before Writing: @KMWeiland
- What if the hero was the heroine? Turning Your Story Upside Down: @RachelHauck
- Using the Rule of Three in a Major Scene: @PTBradley1 @NovelRocket
- Yes, Your Novel Has a Message: @theladygreer
- 12 Easy Steps to Break Down Your Story: @patverducci
- The Blueprint for Writing a Novel from the First Five Pages to the End: @MartinaABoone
- 8 Steps to a Perfect Scene: @CSLakin
- Does This Scene Deserve a Place in Your Story? 2 Ways to Find Out: @KMWeiland
- Where to Begin Worldbuilding: @authorvotey @TheIWSG
- Money and Economics for SF/F Writers: @DanKoboldt
Congratulations on being in the the top fifty! Yours should be number one mystery site.
Enjoy your couple weeks off. I’ll be off the last week of July but slipping in for #IWSGPit day. And thanks for including this past week’s IWSG post on world building.
Thanks! Hoping to get some good writing time in, but we’ll see, ha!
Enjoy your time off, too! And happy to share the IWSG post.
Congrats on the Top 50 Mystery Sites. Your site deserves it.
Thanks, Diane! :)
Have a lovely break, Elizabeth! And thanks, as ever, for the links. I really do learn every time I come here.
Thanks, Margot! :)