Twitterific Writing Links

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraigBlog

Twitterific links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 23,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers.

Create a Compelling Character, Addendum: His or Her Unique Perspective: http://ow.ly/z9jTA @CockeyedCaravan

Authors Will Soon Be Able to Sell their eBooks on Facebook:  http://ow.ly/zkGvj @Goodereader

Where To Set Your Story and Tips for Researching Locations:  http://ow.ly/zlTFh @LovelyAuthor

How can we ease the summer’s debate?  http://ow.ly/zkRCm  @Porter_Anderson @HughHowey @philipdsjones

How to Start Your Story:  http://ow.ly/zc9vQ @HGComan

3 Steps to Taking Your Character Further and Deeper With Anger:  http://ow.ly/zc9yr @angelaackerman               

Should you revise, rework or reject your book? http://ow.ly/ @emma_darwin

12 Hashtags for Promoting Your Book:  http://ow.ly/zca8k @ReadersJournal

4 Ways To Write Every Day:  http://ow.ly/zcadP @woodwardkaren

Choosing and Staying True to A Point of View: http://ow.ly/zcbhZ  @amyjmcelroy

Creating a Scene Outline for Your Novel:  http://ow.ly/zcbVu  @JodieRennerEd

Always Open To The Possibility Of Writing:  http://ow.ly/zcah8  @jrobertlennon

100 Writing Prompts:  http://ow.ly/zcapg @Wiseink

Pricing Strategies for Ebooks in a Series:  http://ow.ly/zcbOz @goblinwriter

Why children’s literary heroes need to be less white: http://ow.ly/zcaTe @amymcculloch

26 Ways Writers Can Make a Workshop Successful:  http://ow.ly/zcbdS @themjkelley

Write an irresistible book blurb in 5 easy steps:  http://ow.ly/zcavb @writers_write

In Defence of Ghostwriting:  http://ow.ly/zcb5B @GMcDuling

How Authors Can (and Should) Use Author Copies:  http://ow.ly/zc9br @outskirtspress

20 Ideas for Sharing on Social Media:  http://ow.ly/zgfuO @CaballoFrances

11 Author Quotations to Help Reluctant Readers Find Their Way: http://ow.ly/zgeAH @geekerydo

Friendships Among Your Characters:  http://ow.ly/zgfqp @CantrellJason

You’re not behind and writers are not in a race: http://ow.ly/zgeJc @deanwesleysmith

Successful Querying: ItÂ’s Not All About The Letter:  http://ow.ly/zgfSD @mmfinck @womenwriters

When Real Life Happens To Your Fiction:  http://ow.ly/zgeZ5 @chgriffinauthor

Freelancing: Make a Living as a Writer: A Simple Strategy That Works:  http://ow.ly/zgemq @hopeclark

9 Things Writers Need to Know Before the Book Deal:  http://ow.ly/zkO8C @MartinaABoone

The Arc of The Indie Author Journey: From First Book to CEO Of Your Global Media Empire: http://ow.ly/z9icl @thecreativepenn

July 2014 Author Earnings Report:  http://ow.ly/zkGEI @AuthorEarnings @HughHowey

How to Write a Negative Character Arc: The First Act: http://ow.ly/z9jc4 @KMWeiland

Do Writers Practice Their Art? http://ow.ly/z9j84 @janice_hardy

History’s Most Heinous Typos: http://ow.ly/z9juZ @drummondmoir

How to Live the Brave Story You Must Write:  http://ow.ly/z9izU @JeffreyDavis108

3 Ways to Brand Your Covers:  http://ow.ly/z9iTG @janetkgrant

What to blog about: 5 top tips for new and aspiring authors:  http://ow.ly/z9iY2 @altait

Never let research get in the way of a good story:  http://ow.ly/z9ijN @IrishTimes

7 Questions that Will Change How You Publish:  http://ow.ly/z9iPD @cjlyonswriter

Situations in crime fiction when characters are faced with difficult choices:  http://ow.ly/zja2R @mkinberg

7 Things Writers Can Learn from Stand-up Comedians:  http://ow.ly/z9jhE @byagoda

How To Begin Your Book With A Knockout:  http://ow.ly/z9j23 @huffpost

Enjoy what you’re writing or you’ll never finish:  http://ow.ly/z9iox @Eliz_Mallory

One Thing Authors Shouldn’t Leave Out of A Story’s “Big Moment”:  http://ow.ly/z9j5R @vgrefer

Even Harvard Business School advice may not work for publishers in their struggle with Amazon:  http://ow.ly/zgrBH @MikeShatzkin

How To Change the Future of Publishing Now, Even Though It’s Too Late:  http://ow.ly/zgvkn @vaporbook

5 Things Every Screenwriter Should Know About Writing A Novel:  http://ow.ly/z6F9G @Abdaddy

Stereotypes, Tropes, and Archetypes: http://ow.ly/z6ET1 from Clever Girl Helps

A Crash Course in Mystery Sub-Genres:  http://ow.ly/z6ENF @MarcyKennedy

A digital renaissance for the science fiction short story:  http://ow.ly/z6EY3 @damiengwalter

Preparing for Success (and finding more time to write):  http://ow.ly/ @DanBlank

5 Signs Your Character Is Fully Developed:  http://ow.ly/z6GbN @mythcreants

Mystery Novelist Daniel Friedman on Amazon v. Hachette:  http://ow.ly/zgDvv @junglereds @DanFriedman81

Songwriting Tip: Rhyming http://ow.ly/z6EM9 @harrietschock

Uses of the Past Participle:  http://ow.ly/z6ES4 @writing_tips

Character Checklist: http://ow.ly/zgBQF @MartinaABoone

Putting An End To Plot Conveniences:  http://ow.ly/z6F5b @litreactor

Why characters are the heart of your novel – & how you can write them effectively:  http://ow.ly/z6FgI @roz_morris

How to Get Successfully Published Today: Big 5, Indy, or Self-Publish? http://ow.ly/z6F6S @passivevoiceblg

Submit Queries Using Real Name or Pen Name?  http://ow.ly/z6FWG

$5k advances for lifetime rights of works that can’t go out of print is indefensible:  http://ow.ly/zguS2 @HughHowey

What Is the Future of the Physical Bookstore? [Smart Set] http://ow.ly/zgrwe @Janefriedman

Writer Nightmares:  http://ow.ly/z6FfR @rebeccamakkai

Sentence clauses and commas.  http://ow.ly/z6EUN  @ericjbaker1

5 Free Tools of Social Media Success for Writers:  http://ow.ly/z6G95 @SMisDynamite

How to fix a plot hole:  http://ow.ly/z6Fc8 @roz_morris

How character POV affects word choice:  http://ow.ly/z4W6h @weifarer

3 Quotes every Writer should Ink to their Souls:  http://ow.ly/z4VWH @EudaimoniaJanne

If Writers Wrote as Some People Talk:  http://ow.ly/z4WmJ @Massim0Marin0

Common Plotting Faults and What to do About Them:  http://ow.ly/z4Uq4 @barbbradley

6 Things That Will Happen a Few Days Before Your Book Comes Out:  http://ow.ly/z4VdK @Petermball

Handling eBook Pirates http://ow.ly/z4VTN @BadRedheadMedia @macpetreshock

For Writers, Are Bars the New Coffee Shop? http://ow.ly/z4Ws0 @UrbanMuseWriter @contently

Here’s why you shouldn’t underestimate the power of setting:  http://ow.ly/z4WLD @standoutbooks

Take Your Characters Out to Lunch: 5 Development Exercises: http://ow.ly/z4VPe @adearinthewoods

8 Reasons All Authors Need Business Plans for Their Books: http://ow.ly/z4VIX @ninaamir

How to Personalize Your Revision Checklist:  http://ow.ly/z4Wjj @writing_tips

Finding an Agent: What No One Wants to Talk About:  http://ow.ly/z4V2p @arnabontemps

Battling Cliches & Tired, Old Tropes: Hate-at-First-Sight Love Stories:  http://ow.ly/z4Xda @stdennard

Harper Lee gave the US a story for the ages. Just don’t ask her about it:  http://ow.ly/z4W8J @CharlesLeerhsen @SmithsonianMag

How To Maintain Your Writing Voice:  http://ow.ly/z4Vn8 @SITSGirls

What does #Steampunk Mean? 10 Authors Share their Vision of the Genre:  http://ow.ly/z4WE3  @Fuelforwriters

6 Things Your Book Publicist Won’t Tell You:  http://ow.ly/z3RJ2 @SarahPinneo

Writing with Emotion:  http://ow.ly/z3Oxa @JanalynVoigt

Having Trouble Plotting Forward? Try Plotting Backward:  http://ow.ly/z3Phq @Janice_Hardy

How NOT to write disabled people:  http://ow.ly/z3OV7 @disabilityinlit

The Daily Routines Of 26 Of History’s Most Creative Minds:  http://ow.ly/z3JPv @FastCoDesign

Standalone or series?  http://ow.ly/z3RTk @Author_DFarland

An agent on agent guidelines and querying:  http://ow.ly/z3KqS @Janet_Reid

Script To Screen: “Cinema Paradiso”:  http://ow.ly/z3RQV @gointothestory

#FutureChat recap: How can we pay authors what they deserve? http://ow.ly/zbu56 @Porter_Anderson @MirabilisDave @camillelaguire

What Should an Author Expect from an Agent?  http://ow.ly/z3JHC @susanspann

5 Top Tips To Boost Writing Productivity | Self-Publishing Advice http://ow.ly/z3JBf @CSheehanMiles

On Writing the First Kiss:  http://ow.ly/z3KHi @AnnaCampbelloz

What Is Voice In Fiction? http://ow.ly/z3KAR @MartinaABoone

Query question: how much less enticing is a second novel?  http://ow.ly/z3OE4 @Janet_Reid

So You Want To Make A Living Writing? 13 Great Truths: http://ow.ly/z3L1g @bob_mayer

20 Ways To Reuse, Recycle and Repurpose Content:  http://ow.ly/z3JsP @bookgal

10 things most writers don’t know about the woods:  http://ow.ly/z3Rqm @DanKoboldt

What 1 writer learned while reading for an agent:  http://ow.ly/z0qf9 @OrlyKonigLopez

Continue writing a successful series? Or take time out for something new?  http://ow.ly/z8DWP

5 Essential Questions to Ask When Writing Your Protagonist:  http://ow.ly/z0oet @bridgetmcnulty

How to Respond to Alarming Industry Changes:  http://ow.ly/z0ozO @rachellegardner

4 Reasons We Sometimes Write (Too) Slowly:  http://ow.ly/z0pKP @vgrefer

Will Publishing Change The Tone as Rhetoric on Both Sides Heats Up?  http://ow.ly/z9cIZ @thoughtcatalog @Porter_Anderson

Why We Need ‘Ugly’ Heroines:  http://ow.ly/z0p3t @buzzfeed

Dinner parties featured in crime fiction:  http://ow.ly/z8u5k @mkinberg

The Author-Reader Amazon Revolution:Mirage or Reality? http://ow.ly/z0opa @claudenougat

10 Tips to Beat Writer’s Block:  http://ow.ly/z0pk0 @sdwriter

6 Writing Tips From John Steinbeck:  http://ow.ly/z0o65 @verbicide

The 8 laws of Foreshadowing:  http://ow.ly/z0ppn  @nownovel

9 Great Tools and Programs to Help You Edit:  http://ow.ly/z8oyF @alexjcavanaugh

The Art of the Opening Sentence: http://ow.ly/z0nPq @jrc2666

Recharge Your Writing Batteries:  http://ow.ly/yX1It @CarolineLawrenc

When a Writing Dead End Becomes a Detour to Success:  http://ow.ly/yWUA6 @NinaBadzin

Magical Creatures for Magical Worlds: Fairies http://ow.ly/yWUvo @Chilari

Point of view shifts and head-hopping: always bad? http://ow.ly/yWUqT @roz_morris

Hidden Emotions: How To Tell Readers What Characters Don’t Want To Show: http://ow.ly/z0p7O @angelaackerman

What Defines Traditional Publishing? What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You. http://ow.ly/z6HxJ @annerallen

The 7 Paragraph Synopsis:  http://ow.ly/yWTfw  @HopeRamsay

3 Ways to Plan a Marketable Novel without Losing Creativity:  http://ow.ly/yWSHK @ninaamir

Dissecting Your Characters:  http://ow.ly/yWRqg @TerriLAustin

Positive Versus Negative Description:  http://ow.ly/yWTpV @Kid_Lit

3 Ways to Train Your Brain to be More Creative http://ow.ly/yWSVP @AlexZamorski @thewritelife

A normal life for our characters?  http://ow.ly/yWRv0 @VickyThinks

Writing Workshops: Tough Love, Indulgence, or Shark Tanks? http://ow.ly/yWRA8 @BTMargins

Why Words Matter in Fiction and Story:  http://ow.ly/yWUol @noveleditor

How to Create a Compelling Character: The Moment of Humanity http://ow.ly/z9jGa @CockeyedCaravan

Elizabeth Spann Craig

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Elizabeth writes the Memphis Barbeque series (as Riley Adams) and the Southern Quilting mysteries for Penguin and writes the Myrtle Clover series for Midnight Ink and independently. She also has a blog, which was named by Writer’s Digest as one of the 101 Best Websites for Writers. There she posts on the writing craft, finding inspiration in everyday life, and fitting writing into a busy schedule.

10 Comments

  1. Alex J. CavanaughJuly 20, 2014

    Hey, thanks for including my IWSG post! And the one from Martina.

    1. Elizabeth Spann CraigJuly 20, 2014

      Alex–You’re welcome–great posts!

  2. Margot KinbergJuly 20, 2014

    Elizabeth – As always, such a wonderful list of helpful links. I must absorb that article that reminds us that this isn’t a race. It’s a journey…

    1. Elizabeth Spann CraigJuly 20, 2014

      Margot–I felt calmer when I read that post. :)

  3. Anne R. AllenJuly 20, 2014

    I don’t always comment, Elizabeth, but I always really appreciate these links. Helps me catch up on what I missed! Thanks.

    1. Elizabeth Spann CraigJuly 20, 2014

      Anne–And thanks to you for great posts that make their way into my roundups. :)

  4. Julie MusilJuly 20, 2014

    Soooo much great stuff this week. Thanks so much, Elizabeth!

    1. Elizabeth Spann CraigJuly 20, 2014

      Julie–Thanks! Hope you have a great week.

  5. M. J. KelleyJuly 22, 2014

    Elizabeth, thanks so much for adding my blog article on writer workshops to your list! So awesome. Appreciate it. And what a great list you have here.

    1. Elizabeth Spann CraigJuly 22, 2014

      M.J.–It was a great post! Thanks for the great resource for writers.

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