Twitterific Writing Links

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

A weekly roundup of the best writing links from around the web.

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Conferences and Events / Miscellaneous

• Mystery Thriller Week Begins Today: Online Calendar of Events: @MTW_2017

• Authors: Think Twice Before Paying to Exhibit at Book Expo (BEA): @JaneFriedman

Creativity and Inspiration / Goal setting

• 7 Debut Novelists on Their 2017 Resolutions: @knownemily

• What is your creative intention? @DanBlank

• Plan a Sustainable Year for Your Writing Life: @annkroeker

• Setting more effective goals: @Writerology

• 5 Steps to More Achievable Goals: @jeffelk

Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration

• Author and Reporter @TamaraLush Boards Amtrak for Continent-Wide Residency: @Porter_Anderson

• Top 10 Ways To Beat Insecurity (At Least Temporarily!): @10MinNovelists

• A Challenge to Writers: The Balance Between Dreaming and Working @AnnieNeugebauer

• ‘You get an idea and… it just grows’ – interview with @Roz_Morris

• 3 Ways for Writers to Use Deadlines: @astoryofmemory

• 5 Habits To Spark Your Creativity in 2017: @cathysbaker

• Want More Creative Breakthroughs? A Step-by-Step Guide: @ahhensel @foxcabane @JudahThinks

Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration / Quotes

• How To Become a Good Writer: 50 Quotes From The Greats: @WritetoDone

Creativity and Inspiration / Inspiration / Reading as Writers

• 10 Things Every Reader Should Do in 2017: @Gabino_Iglesias

Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Fitting in Writing

• How to trigger your writing routine: @Eva_Bec

• How To Fit Writing Into Your Time-Crunched Life: @10MinNovelists

• How To Carve Out Time For Writing Without Losing Sleep: @ThePaigeDuke

Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Writer’s Block

• How to Keep Writing When You Feel Inadequate: @Chef_BoyarDEJI

Creativity and Inspiration / Productivity / Writing Quickly

• The ABCs of Becoming a Super-Productive Writer: @CSLakin

• The Pomodoro Technique and Productive Writing Time: @JessDarb

Creativity and Inspiration / Writing Life

• Why Won’t (Insert Name Here) Read My Book? @SheerHubris

• 3 Things You Can’t Teach About Writing: @colleen_m_story

• The Writer Workout: 11 Minutes Keeping Your Word Count High and Your Calories Low: by It’s a Writer Thing

• The Genreless Freedom—and Subsequent Power—of Journals: @jrc2666

• Best Ways to Stay Protected Online as a Self-Employed Author: @thomas_milva

• Tell them you Love Them to the Wall and Back with Game of Thrones Valentines Cards: by Stubby the Rocket

• Famous Literary Relationships from Best to Worst: @knownemily

• 10 Reasons to Stay Home & Write This Valentine’s Day: @ProWritingAid

• Writing a Book You’re Scared No One Will Understand: @losapala

• 4 Things Every Writer Thinks While Working on a Book: @JonAcuff

• Staring into the Soundless Dark: On the Trouble Lurking in Poets’ Bedrooms: by Andrew Kay @The_Millions

• 8 Tips for Staying Safe Online: @EdieMelson

• Coping with negativity: @DanBlank

Genres / Fantasy

• 6 Forms of Transit That Can Replace the Mount: by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants

Genres / Memoir

• A Memoir Editor Answers Questions: @DiercksDuke

Genres / Mystery

• Well-meaning advice in crime fiction: @mkinberg

• Legislators in crime fiction: @mkinberg

• Non-verbal communication as an element in crime fiction: @mkinberg

• Plotting A Blockbuster Thriller: @Chris_Kokoski

Genres / Non-Fiction

• 5 Tips To Rescue Your Failed Nonfiction Ebook: @angee

Genres / Poetry

• US Poet Laureates and the Presidents They Served Under: @DanielleMohlman @My_poetic_side

• I Will Not Be Able to Write When I Am Dead: @StacySzymaszek @poetrynews

Genres / Romance

• What Romance Fiction Can Accomplish: @maxwellcathy @lithub

• How to Write Realistic Relationships (video): @Ava_Jae

• Top 6 Fictional Couples: @NatePhilbrick

• A roundup of posts on how to write intimate scenes: @RomanceUniv

• Hot spots: writing love scenes: by Minal Hajratwala @TheWriterMag

• How to Write Swoon: @sjaejones

Genres / Short Stories

• How to Use Short Stories to Improve Your Writing Career: @crisfreese

Promo / Blogging

• 4 Ways to Close a Blog Post: @Margo_L_Dill

• Maximize your blog’s visual appeal by using widgets: @pokercubster

• 3 Social-Sharing Tricks to Optimize Your Next Blog Post: @aliciarades

Promo / Book Descriptions and Copywriting

• The Fastest Way To Make All Your Descriptions Better: @Chris_Kokoski

• Why your book descriptions don’t look right: @HollowLandsBook

Promo / Book Reviews

• Honesty, Likability and Book Reviews: @MarinaSofia8

Promo / Miscellaneous

• Use Content Marketing To Sell More Books: @pamelaiwilson

Promo / Platforms

• Platform Building-Is It Really Necessary? @wordsbyandylee

Promo / Social Media Tips

• 5 Questions to Ask Before Joining a New Social Media Network: @a3forme @susanrstilwell

Publishing / Miscellaneous

• A Comparison of Audio Book Distributors– ACX, Author’s Republic and Scribl: @TahliaNewland

• The most important book elements for reader appeal: @EvaNatiello

• 10 Trends in Publishing Every Author Needs to Know in 2017: @WrittenWordM

• From Novel to Virtual Reality Film: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives

• The NY Times wants to save itself by becoming like Netflix: @PassiveVoiceBlg @HeyHeyESJ @gabrielsnyder

Publishing / News / Amazon

• Is Amazon Exclusivity Right for You? @robkroese @JaneFriedman

Publishing / News / International Publishing

• France, China, South Africa, Canada, USA Lead London Book Fair Intl. Award Shortlist: @Porter_Anderson

• Ukraine Enacts a Winter Ban on Book Imports From Russia: by Eugene Gerden @pubperspectives

• Trade Show Notes: LBF Hosts Fair Use Debate; BookExpo Announces Author-Speakers: @Porter_Anderson

• The AWP Goes to Washington With Focus on Lit in a Political Society: @Porter_Anderson

• Showcase Offers £7,500 in International Commissions; Nigeria’s Cassava Signs W/ Consortium: @Porter_Anderson

• A closer look at serialized fiction startup Radish: @Porter_Anderson @radish_fiction

• Thieves Nab More Than $2.5 Million Worth of Rare Books in London Heist: by Jake Rossen @mental_floss

Publishing / Options / Traditional Publishing / Pitches

• Reach beyond tropes when pitching your book: @JaneLebak

Publishing / Process / Book Design

• Book Cover Design: How indie authors can do it best: @ReedsyHQ

• Book Cover Design: What To Consider Before Hiring A Designer: @MsBessieBell

• 6 Tips to Create Book Covers that Sell Books: @LyndaRYoung @TheIWSG

• A Complete Guide and Resources for Choosing Your Book Cover Font: @publishdrive

Writing Craft / Beginnings

• Crafting a Powerful Set-Up: @beccapuglisi

• Real Life Diagnostics: Is This Short Prologue Working? @Janice_Hardy

Writing Craft / Characters / Development

• How to Prevent Your Characters from All Sounding the Same: @LouiseMarley @WomenWriters

• Develop your characters by getting to know them: @jasonbougger

• Creating Characters We Want To Have Coffee With: @RachelHauck

Writing Craft / Common Mistakes

• The Basics of Show Don’t Tell: @JulieEshbaugh

Writing Craft / Diversity

• A resource for writers wanting to write books with more diverse characters: from Writing With Color

Writing Craft / Endings

• Not all story endings are meant to satisfy: @tobyshmoby

Writing Craft / Lessons from Books and Film

• Using the Modern Love Podcast to Teach Narrative Writing: @nytimes

• 6 Cinematic Techniques to Apply to Your Novel Right Now: @CSLakin

• “Things Learned From Watching ‘La La Land’ : by Lance Morgan @GoIntoTheStory

• Pixar’s Inside Out and the Literature of Interiority: @GabbyBellot @ElectricLit

• 5 Fantasy Books That Ignore Genre Boundaries: @MichaelSwanwick

• The Tropes of ‘Supernatural’: @woodwardkaren

• 10 Politically Subversive Novels Veiled in Absurdism: @chris_shultz81

• The Many Bad Moms of Charles Dickens: @RVoronaCote

• 11 Classics of the New Gothic Canon: by Emily Fridlund @lithub

Writing Craft / Miscellaneous

• 5 Tips for Telling Prequel Stories: by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants

• How to Make a Good Story Excellent: 9 Tips: @nownovel

• Handling inner monologue: @p2p_editor

• Supporting Characters in Your Real Life: @SPressfield

• 7 Keys to Writing Excellence: by Fae Rowen

• 5 Signs You Treat Your Reader Like an Idiot: @WritingWordBlog

• Using a narrator character to create a mythic story: @AlexSokoloff

• Selecting the Right Sentence Structure for the Right Emotion: @SeptCFawkes

• Social Issues in Your Stories: 3 Strategies for Doing it Right: @tobywneal

Writing Craft / Pre-Writing / Plotting

• The Keys to Creating Great Twists: @readstevenjames @MTW_2017

• Story Structure and The Hollywood Formula: @woodwardkaren

Writing Craft / Punctuation and Grammar

• 3 Errors in Using Parentheses: @writing_tips

• 3 More Sentences Lacking One Word to Be Correct: @writing_tips

Writing Craft / Revision

• 12 Contemporary Writers on How They Revise: @knownemily

• Why we should put drafts aside for a time after finishing: @Roz_Morris

• How To Edit Your Book Using the Layers Process: @SukhiJutla

• 7 Tips to Bring Your Words to Life: @LisaTener

Writing Craft / Revisions / Critiques

• 5 Questions to Ask Beta Readers When They Critique Your Manuscript: @SaraL_Writer

• How is a writer like a surgeon? @nevalalee

Writing Craft / Tension

• Shaping Story Conflict: @Lindasclare

• 5 Surefire Ways To Raise The Stakes Of Your Story: @ClaireABradshaw

• 5 Levers to Create Suspenseful Scenes: @GraemeRodaughan for @JordonMGreene @MTW_2017

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