by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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New Stuff
Free Guide for Pre-Nano: Are you thinking about participating in NaNoWriMo this year? Are you getting ready for your next novel? If so, then you might want to visit Fiction University. Janice Hardy is giving away her Plotting Your Novel: Ideas and Structure ebook for free until October 15 just for subscribing to the site (and if you want to learn more about writing, you’ll want to anyway). Check out the details here.
Free Webinar: If you missed How to Survive and Succeed as a Writer (without Breaking Your Heart or Losing Your Mind), there’s a live encore class on Tuesday October 9, 12pm ET. (Part of the DIY MFA program from Gabriela Pereira).
Master Class Opportunity: The DIY MFA Master Class (a 10-week program) is now enrolling students. Each weekly module includes video lessons, audio recordings, slides, and worksheets, so you can absorb the material in the way that’s best for you. More about the program here (note that I’m an affiliate for the class) or consider the free class first (here) to see if this would be something up your alley.
- Affiliate Programs for Books: @KathySteinemann
- Alternative Ways to Make Money as a Writer: @LynseyMay @scottishbktrust
- Industry Notes: Man Booker’s Shortlisted Authors, London Book Fair’s Literacy Charity: @Porter_Anderson
- At Frankfurt’s ‘The Markets’ Conference: Brazil’s Gustavo Lembert: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Accessibility: ‘Frankfurt For All’ and France’s ‘Literary Season For All’: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- IWSG Anthology Contest 2018 (free to enter): @TheIWSG
- At Frankfurt’s ‘The Markets’ Conference: China’s Jiang Yanping: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- 9 Books on the Complexities of Mother-Daughter Relationships: @vanessa_hua @ElectricLit
- What do you read when you’re writing? It’s complicated: @Roz_Morris
- 7 Novels That Capture the Pain and Chaos of Alcoholism: @laura_june @lithub
- How to Start a Local Writing Group: @shaylaleeraquel
- Why Writers Need Confidence—5 Ways to Boost Yours: @colleen_m_story
- 4 Ways Travel Can Enrich Your Writing: @thecreativepenn
- On Taking a Writing Retreat for Solitude When Your Biological Clock is Ticking: @emjsmith
- How to Finish Writing Your Book By Abandoning It Well: @JeffGoins
- 10 Animals Who Have Broken Into the Library: @erinkbart @ElectricLit
- How Wilkie Collins found sensation in ordinary life: @samjordison @GuardianBooks
- Beating Burnout – A Writers Guide: @TheMerryWriter
- 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers: @TeddyWayne1999 @lithub
- A Librarian’s Life: “Buddy, the Library Isn’t a 7-Eleven”: @Kristen_Arnett @lithub
- 3 Steps to Bring Clarity to Help You Finish Your Book: @lornafaith
- 100 Reasons Libraries are Better than Amazon and Starbucks: @DrunkestLibrary @5minlib
- “Why I Have to Write, Even While Working Full-Time”: @KarisRogerson @LitReactor
- The Weirdest Libraries Around the World: by Brianne Alphonso @ElectricLit
- Writing and the Creative Life: The Mundane and the Marvelous: @GoIntoTheStory
- Why You Should Pull Out the Manuscript Under Your Bed: @KelseyBrowning @RomanceUniv
- The Hack’s Guide to Buying a Writing Desk: @BillFerris @WriterUnboxed
- What to Do When Journaling Makes You Feel Worse: @writingthrulife
- 5 Ways to Restart a Bad Day: @BrynDonovan
- Keeping the Magical World Secret from the Mundane World in a Fantasy: by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants
- H.P. Lovecraft And The Shadow Over Horror: @R_Emrys @NPR
- Modern horror films are finding their scares in dead phone batteries: @TashaRobinson @verge
- Should You Age the Characters in Your Mystery Series? @mkinberg
- Murder Motives for the Crime Writer: @DPLyleMD
- 5 Must-Use Tips on Writing a Thriller: @KarenCV
- What Authors Need To Know About True Crime: @FredBobJohn @standoutbooks
- Five Things You Must Do if You’re Writing Non-Fiction: @Bookgal
- How and Why to Use Subheads in Your Nonfiction Writing: @theladyck @NinaAmir
- Writing a spec episode: Act Four Scenes: @BittrScrptReadr
- Writing a spec episode: Act Five Scenes: @BittrScrptReadr
- Tips for Allowing Guest Posts on Your Blog: @ZoeMMcCarthy
- 7 Ways To Get More Readers To Your Blog: @HughRoberts05
- 1 Writer’s Quiet Rebellion Against 3 Pieces of Conventional Marketing Wisdom: @Roz_Morris
- An Agent on Non-Fiction Platforms: @RachelleGardner
- Create a List to Sell All Your Books: @SueBEdwards @womenonwriting
- 5 Simple Ways to Crush Your Networking on Goodreads: @Bookgal
- 5 Common Twitter Mistakes of Indie Authors: @DebbieYoungBN
- The DIY Guide To Turn Your Book Into An Audiobook: @DaveChesson
- Industry Notes: Charkin Opens Mensch Publishing; LBF Opens Award Submissions: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Gvantsa Jobava on Guest of Honor Georgia at Frankfurt: @Porter_Anderson @GvantsaJobava
- Publishing Issues for the IPA’s Meetings: Diversity, Emerging Markets, Literacy: @Porter_Anderson@Bodour
- European Publishing Welcomes ECOFIN’s Decision on Taxation for Ebooks: @Porter_Anderson @StephenLotinga @pubperspectives
- A New ‘Barometer’ Checks Sales Conditions in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain: @Porter_Anderson @wischenbart
- Wattpad To Beta-Test a Payment Plan for Its Writers: Canada, UK, Philippines, Mexico: @Porter_Anderson @wattpad
- Publishing in Southeast Asia: ASEAN Forum Highlights: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Writing Story Openings: @Lindasclare
- Do You Really Need To Start At The Beginning? by Robert Wood @standoutbooks
- 20 Things Learned After Reading 150,000 Words in Opening Pages: @katiemccoach
- 3 Ways to Make Your Dialogue More Interesting: by Bucket Siler
- Dialogue Issues? Read It Out Loud: @BE_Sanderson
- 8 Rules for Better Dialogue: @CherylProWriter
- Five Stories That Don’t Understand Power & Privilege: by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants
- “Choosing to Read or Watch According to the … Adjacency it Might Have to Your Own Work”: @Porter_Anderson @WriterUnboxed
- When you should stop reading, start writing: @pubcoach
- Crafting a “Body Language Voice”: @SeptCFawkes
- Create Power Paragraphs For Stronger Storytelling: @Writers_Write
- Do You Have a Story with a Twist, or a Twist That Thinks it’s a Story? @Janice_Hardy
- 3 Ingredients You Need To Make Readers Feel: @LisaHallWilson
- Weaving A Narrative: by Aaron Miles @FantasyFaction
- How To Focus on Your Story’s DNA: @JennyHansenCA
- Why Writers Should Let Go and Enjoy the Story: @mike54martin
- Getting the Big Picture Across in Your Scenes: @LiveWriteThrive
- How to Find and Fix Your Story’s Plot Holes: @kristen_kieffer
- What to Do When You Write Yourself Into a Corner: @SeptCFawkes
- An Example of Editing a Scene: @DavidCorbett_CA
- The Every-Novel-Is-Wildly-Different Guide to Revision: @jcbaggott @WriterUnboxed
The top writing links from last week are on Twitterific: Click To Tweet
That’s a great deal from Janice Hardy. I am thinking about participating. Or at least taking part of November off to write.
Isn’t it? Everything I’ve seen Janice write has been excellent. I don’t ever do NaNo (I’m always, always in the middle of a project), but I’m going to up my output in November, for sure (2 projects at once).
Such a great list of links, Elizabeth, as ever! Thanks for sharing them. Interesting that there are a number of them on international publishing. I’ve often thought about making my work more appealing to the international market (translating, etc.). It’s something I’ll have to look into, I think.
There are lots of ways of making our work appealing to an international audience … and available to one. I’d recommend using retail platforms on PublishDrive and StreetLib, consider translation through https://traduzionelibri.it , and making sure we have author profiles in local languages on the Amazon international sites.
I love Lovecraft so I’ll need to read that one about him and horror.
It was food for thought! I enjoy Lovecraft, too.