by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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- Confidence, Connection & Convergence: Self-Publishing Review 2018: @OrnaRoss @IndieAuthorALLI
- Editing: How to create compelling editing quotations: @LouiseHarnby
- The Fear and Joy of Writing on Proposal: @maryannmarlowe @WomenWriters
- Tokyo’s new Bunkitsu Bookstore With an Admission Fee: @Porter_Anderson @bunkitsu_rpng
- China Bestsellers for November: The ‘Double Eleven’ Sales Boost: @Porter_Anderson
- The Five Biggest New Year’s Resolution Mistakes and How to Avoid Them: @WriteNowCoach
- Trends For Authors And Creative Goal Setting 2019: @thecreativepenn
- Share Your Writing Goals to Increase Chances of Success: @colleen_m_story
- About Those New Year’s Goals: @RachelleGardner
- 9 Mysteries Set in The Immediate Aftermath of WWI: @jpwrites1 @CrimeReads
- How Book Maps Led to One Author’s Love of Fiction: @VaughnRoycroft @WriterUnboxed
- The Good, The Bad, and The Delicious: 20 Unexpected Literary Cookbooks: @knownemily @lithub
- A defense of creative writing in the age of standardized testing: @JustinParmenter
- Jonathan Franzen’s 10 Rules for Novelists: @lithub
- Why Writing Friends are Important: @jodimeadows
- Tsundoku (Books piled everywhere): @austinkleon
- How to write if you have a long commute behind the wheel: @GoIntoTheStory
- What One Person Can Do to Get People Reading: @mattgrantwriter @lithub
- Writing and the Creative Life: Why Creative People May Feel More Anxiety: @GoIntoTheStory
- Creating Priority Lists When Everything Seems Important: @TheLeighShulman
- Is A Writing Retreat Right For You? by Paige Duke @standoutbooks
- Tips to Help Organize 2019 with Calendars and Apps:
- Get Your Blog Ready for 2019: @EdieMelson
- 12 Strategies for Blogging Your Way to Expert Status: @NinaAmir
- Your 2019 Book Marketing Plan, Month by Month: @NewShelvesBooks @BookWorksNYC
- 7 Ways to Use Bookmarks for Marketing Your Book: @KarenHWhiting @EdieMelson
- Create your author mood board in five minutes: @helpingauthors1
- Books to Film: Josh Malerman’s Debut ‘Bird Box’ Lands on Netflix: @Porter_Anderson @JoshMalerman
- Tips for Winning Writing Contests: @FinishedPages @hopeclark
- Winter Issues: ‘Beyond the Book’ Looks at 2018 in Review: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @BeyondTheBook
- Be Careful Inputting Your Metadata on Amazon: by Gordon Long @IndiesUnlimited
- How to find your perfect co-writer (dead or alive): @LuWrites
- Copyrighted Treasures Move Into the Public Domain, on a ‘Snowy Evening’: @Porter_Anderson @DukeCSPD
- Don’t Make Your Characters Do the Impossible: @ZoeMMcCarthy
- 4 Steps for Writing Realistic Protagonists Who Are Nothing Like You: by Donna Levin @WritersDigest
- Character Building with the Enneagram: @RDCwrites @RMFWriters
- How to Level-Up Our Writing: @craicer @JamiGold
- Don’t Overload Your Readers With Your Message: @writing_tips
- Tips for More Meaningful Stories: @writingandsuch
- 10 Non-Writing Things You Can Do To Improve Your Writing: @wendypmiller
- The Dual Plot Structure That Makes Stories a Success: by Chris Winkle @mythcreants
- How to Choose Your Story’s Plot Points: @KMWeiland
- ‘Flier’ or ‘Flyer’? @GrammarGirl
- Pronoun Order: @GrammarGirl
- Three Simple Rules for Pluralizing Names: @HopeTDougherty
- Read your way into editing your novel: @MsRachaelBlok @CurtisBrown
- See Oscar Wilde’s Handwritten Edits to The Picture of Dorian Gray: @lithub
- 10 Podcasts every author needs in their life: @sacha_black
- 14 of the Best Online Writing Communities for Aspiring Authors: @ReedsyHQ
- The links I shared the last couple of weeks, plus my links that got the most engagement on Twitter in 2018:
- Show Don’t Tell Explained: Examples of Turning Bad Writing into Great Writing: @TCKPublishing
Remainder of the Top Tweets for 2018…the links I shared that received the most engagement on Twitter:
How to Fix a Plot Hole in Your Novel (From 14 Writing Experts): http://ow.ly/f1cR30mLx0M @writingcookbook #TopTweets2018
Rights Roundup: A Handful of Titles for the Holidays: http://ow.ly/EonV30mOqat @Porter_Anderson @malusken @GuillaumePitron @SiriPettersen #TopTweets2018
A defense of creative writing in the age of standardized testing: http://ow.ly/k2Tw30n8KCf @JustinParmenter #wkb31
3 Tips for Improving Show, Don’t Tell: http://ow.ly/PXZB30mCVNr @KMWeiland #TopTweets2018
Gave up on NaNoWriMo? Try a gentler, year-round writing challenge: http://ow.ly/KCxp30mUUTN @inkyelbows #TopTweets2018
9 Writing Tips for Beginners: http://ow.ly/RJ1r30mTwMZ @writingcookbook #TopTweets2018
Public Domain Day Is Coming: On January 1st, 2019, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain for the First Time in 21 Years: http://ow.ly/z0p830n8Gqf @jdmagness @openculture #wkb5c
On The Many Visions of Voyeurism in Crime Fiction: http://ow.ly/1QhE30mM4FR @ClaireFuller2 @CrimeReads #TopTweets2018
What Writing Fanfiction Taught Me as an Editor: http://ow.ly/CsAa30mCozO @writersyndrome @UncannyMagazine #TopTweets2018
How to Use Swag to Support Your Book Marketing: http://ow.ly/CgjB30mTxOs @proflangley @JaneFriedman #TopTweets2018
How To Define Your Character’s Narrative: http://ow.ly/VW4V30mUBKI @Writers_Write #TopTweets2018
6 Iconic Literary Road Trips in the US To Inspire Your Inner Creative: http://ow.ly/Ci3W30mLwSj @WomenWriters #TopTweets2018
The Top Writing Links From Last Week Are On Twitterific: Click To Tweet
@inkyelbows? That one I have to look up.
Debbie Ohi–an author and illustrator. :) Her Twitter handle always makes me smile.
Thanks, as ever, for the great links, Elizabeth. I really like that there are so many on keeping creativity going. There’s so much to think about when we write that it’s hard sometimes to just let creativity happen.
You’re so right–too much to consider when we’re working on stories. Sometimes it’s good to just go with our intuition and, as you say, our creativity and let the words just flow.
Elizabeth, thanks as always for your Twitter links. I’ll explore a handful tonight now that I have a bit of quite time. Here’s to a healthy and prosperous 2019 to you and yours.
The same to you, Stephen!