by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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- Should you use volunteers to proofread your book? @LisaPoisso
- 12 Super Subject Lines – A Cheat Sheet For Business Writers: by Constant Contact @Writers_Write
- Your Production Calendar: @itshelendarling @DIYMFA
- Self-Publishing and Entrepreneurship: @JamiGold
- Reader Targeting Influences Everything: @DavidGaughran
- Your Book Marketing Plan Starts Before You Publish: @Bookgal @BookWorksNYC
- “3 Ways I Plan To Achieve My Writing Goals”: @StephMorrill @GoTeenWriters
- Transforming Wishes Into Goals: A Quick Guide: @MegDowell
- We’ve Always Been Into Psychological Thrillers : @mserinkelly @CrimeReads
- Why Was Shakespeare Wary of Writing About Religion? @provbate @lithub
- 12 of the Weirdest Star Wars Novels in the Galaxy: @helpfulsnowman @LitReactor
- 3 Mindset Shifts To Help You Have A (Realistically) Productive Summer: @StephMorrill @GoTeenWriters
- 17 Tips to Increase Your Word Count: @CherylProWriter
- 5 Hacks to Help You Write More This Summer: @ReedsyHQ @DIYMFA
- One Writer Explains Why She Throws Out Much of Her Old Writing: @BeingTheWriter @womenonwriting
- An Unpublished Writer is Still a Writer: @LisaLisax31
- If Writers Write the Way Drivers Drive: @AlyciaMorales
- 21 Tips on How to Write Remotely: @WordDreams
- Writers: Keep On Keeping On: @CharlylynnCox @TheIWSG
- Planning Your Own Weekend Writers’ Retreat: @AnneGBrown @WriterUnboxed
- Improve Your Writing When You Mine Your Life Experiences: @EdieMelson
- How to Stop Holding Yourself Back as a Writer: @colleen_m_story @WomenWriters
- 11 Tips on Writing with a Newborn (Video): @VivienReis
- 7 ways to embrace the chaos of the creative process: @TheLeighShulman
- The Art of the Playlist: @pauljessup @sfwa
- Writers: Your Failures Do NOT Define Your Future: @MegDowell
- How To Handle Being Hit With Deconstructive Criticism: @RealSKHamilton @WomenWriters
- Yes, Virginia, You Are a Writer: Five Steps to Embracing Your Identity: @KerrySchafer
- How to answer when someone asks how you’ll make money as a writer: @ashleigh_young @Slate
- How to Write to Market and Still Write What You Love: @Jffelkins @write_practice
- How Writing Is Like Running: @LisaJJackson @LiveWriteThrive
- What Does a Fantasy Map Look Like? @mcwetboy @tordotcom
- SFF Equines Looks at Purpose-Breeding: @dancinghorse @tordotcom
- Five Ways Your Characters Can Acquire Magic: by Chris Winkle and Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants
- Fantasy Tropes: @SMCarriere
- 15 Natural Healing Materials to Help Your Ailing Characters: @VictoriaGHowell
- Why Award Winning Author Deborah Sheldon Writes Horror:
- Screenwriting: The Baddest and Raddest Moms of Horror: @JE_TRUSSELL @OnePerfectShot
- Cozy Mystery Podcasts & YouTube Videos: @Ellen__Jacobson
- Two ways to write about physical violence in crime fiction and thrillers: @LouiseHarnby
- Christian Suspense: On Finding the Balance between Faith and Felonies: @colleencoble @CarrieParks @cara_putman
- Sex and Sexability: On Writing Desire in the Regency Years: by Robert Morrison @lithub
- Writing Slow-Burn Romances: @itsa_me_sunnyd
- Why Consider a Romance Series? by Tammy Lough @DIYMFA
- 7 Ways to Encourage Conversation on Your Blog: @EdieMelson
- Guest Blogging to Reach More Readers: @SmartAuthors @BookWorksNYC
- 3 Creative Ways To Build Your Brand Through Blogging: @Pat_Bailey80 @Writers_Write
- The Lazy Writer’s Guide To Marketing: @amandalinehan
- 10 Things to update each time you release a new book: @DeborahJay2
- Book Marketing is Less Daunting in Baby Steps: by Cathy Dudley @IndieAuthorALLI
- 20 Quick Book Marketing Ideas: @mixtusmedia @BadRedheadMedia
- Taking an Author’s Photo Is Like Going on a First Date: by Nina Subin @lithub
- Is Over-Promotion Really A Problem For Authors? by Robert Wood @standoutbooks
- How to Make Your Book Marketing Plan a Success: @MConnollyAuthor @BadRedheadMedia
- How to Best Prepare for Book Marketing: @CaballoFrances @BadRedheadMedia
- Promoting Your Book for Free: by David Kudler @JFbookman
- How to Plan a Book Reading That Delights Your Audience: @JamesNave @allegrahuston @JaneFriedman
- How to Craft an Introduction for Your Speaking Engagement: @YvonneOrtega1 @EdieMelson
- 10 Tips for a Superb Reading: @Gabino_Iglesias @LitReactor
- AAP Issues Its Annual 2018 StatShot Look at the US Publishing Industry: @Porter_Anderson
- Amazon Gets Bulk of Complaint in AAP Filing With US Trade Commission: @Porter_Anderson
- Scholastic’s ‘Kids & Family’ Report Sees Summer Youth Reading Lagging: @Porter_Anderson
- ‘Quirky’ Children’s Illustrated Books: The Queen’s Knickers Award: @Porter_Anderson
- Bonnier’s BookBeat Announces a 24-Market European Expansion: @Porter_Anderson
- Amazon Responds to a New York Times Critique on Counterfeit Books: @Porter_Anderson
- Italy’s Gruppo Mediaset in First-Look Partnership With Canada’s Wattpad: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- IPA Prix Voltaire Conferred on Khaled Lutfi in Seoul: @Porter_Anderson
- Spain’s Hay Festival Segovia To Feature a Focus on Europe: @Porter_Anderson
- The UK’s Publishers Association Releases Its 2018 Yearbook Report: @Porter_Anderson
- Scribd Rolls Out ‘Snapshot’ Samplers From Nonfiction Books: @Porter_Anderson
- Spain’s ‘Fariña’–’Cocaine Coast’ on Netflix–Wins 2019 Liber Award: @Porter_Anderson
- China Bestsellers for May: Staying Power and Stalwarts: @Porter_Anderson
- Beijing International Book Fair To Emphasize Children’s Books Again: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Norway Reveals its Frankfurter Buchmesse Guest of Honor Program: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Neil Gaiman’s ‘Sandman’ Coming to Netflix; HarperCollins Germany Names Jürgen Welte: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Denmark, UK, and Germany Represented in ContentShift This Year: @Porter_Anderson
- UN Sustainable Development Goals: Frankfurter Buchmesse’s ‘Create Your Revolution’: @Porter_Anderson
- How to Use Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs for Characterization: @harmony_kent @StoryEmpire
- Character Type: Innocent: @GoIntoTheStory
- How to Create a Character Profile: by Ali Hale @writing_tips
- How to Avoid One Dimensional Characters: @Kid_Lit
- Five Newbie Mistakes that Will Kill a Perfectly Good Story: @KristenLambTX
- 8 Quick Tips for Show, Don’t Tell: @KMWeiland
- Storytelling Techniques – Layered Conflict: @AJHumpage
- The Power of Conflict in Storytelling: @GoIntoTheStory
- Handling Backstory in Dialogue in Your Opening Pages: @LiveWriteThrive
- How To Grow Your Backstory: @KatiaRaina1
- 15 Things Learned After Reading 100 Query Letters: @katiemccoach @TheRyanLanz
- How Novelists Can Say More with Less: @LiveWriteThrive
- 3 Tech Clichés That Will Kill Your Writing: @Bang2write
- A Practice to Unearth Your Story Magic by Veronika Magali-Marosy: @Beth_Barany
- How to Track Your Scenes: @JLHarrisCoach
- Head-Hopping and Why Writers Should Avoid It: @richardgthomas3 @LitReactor
- When and How to Weaken a Passage: @SeptCFawkes
- How to Bring Value to Your Readers: @pauletteperhach @JaneFriedman
- 1 Writer’s Top Ten Writing Tips: @CalebPirtle
- How To Write A Logline: @Bang2write
- Using the Argument Against Transformation to Strengthen Your Story: @jamesscottbell @killzoneauthors
- The Emotional Weight of Storytelling (Podcast): @SamSykesSwears @DIYMFA
- What If Your Novel is Losing Steam? @SnowflakeGuy
- The End of Your Middle: The Doorway of No Return #2: @abigailkperry @DIYMFA
- 5 Commandments and Pheres: @valerie_francis @StoryGrid
- 7 Ways to Polish Your Manuscript Before You Self-Publish: @KathyEdens1 @Draft2Digital
- What is Line Editing? 4 Ways It Can Transform Your Book: @ReedsyHQ
- How to Edit a Book 101: @ReedsyHQ
- Knowing When to Fly: Leaving Your Critique Group: @lisabubert @JaneFriedman
- Leaving a Writer’s Group: 5 Reasons it May be Time: @kcraftwriter
- Filter words in fiction: Purposeful inclusion and dramatic restriction: @LouiseHarnby
- Getting rid of ‘that’s’: @PhilAthans
- Power Up Your Paragraphs: @ZoeMMcCarthy
- How to Create a Fictional Universe Like the MCU: @mindofkyleam
- How to Build Your Fictional World with Games: @younginklings @NaNoWriMo
- Character Sheets: @stacitroilo @StoryEmpire
- Authoring Novels with LibreOffice: @fritz_freiheit
- A List of Posts to Help With a Variety of Writing Needs: by Bucket Siler
The Top Writing Links From Last Week Are On Twitterific: Click To Tweet
That’s a lot for this week!
They’ve accumulated while I’ve been out, ha. I schedule most tweets in advance. Hope you have a great week!
So good to have you back, Elizabeth! Hope you enjoyed your break. There are some fantastic links this time. The one about planning a writing retreat intrigued me; I haven’t take such a break in a long time. It’s certainly something to think about.
A writing retreat sounds great to me, too! And thanks…it’s good to be back!
We always discover some great posts we didn’t missed on your lists so thank you for compiling these. Thanks also for including 2 of BW’s posts. Any chance you can add our handle @BookWorksNYC to Penny’s post for us? “Your Book Marketing Plan Starts Before You Publish”? Much obliged…CL
Absolutely..just added it. Have a good week!
A lot of writing tips and across many genres, too.
Some good genre-related stuff from the last few weeks, for sure!
I checked out the Janet Reid on NF one – she’s such a smart lady! Always great advice on queries :)
She’s very savvy and shares a lot of tips for various query situations that other agents don’t cover. Hope you have a great week, Jemi!
So many good links. I already checked out the one on how characters can acquire magic. And K.M. Weiland is always awesome.
Some of the fantasy blogs out there have such great info for writers! And you’re right about K.M. :)