by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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- How Madeleine L’Engle’s Most Popular Book Almost Didn’t Get Published: @DebraEve
- How Long Did Famous Novels Take to Write? @printerinks @ElectricLit
- How to Use the 5 Senses for Inspiration in Your Writing: @DIYMFA
- 5 Books Set in the Remains of a Dead Civilization: @danielwilsonpdx
- 13 Fantasies Inspired by Legends from the British Isles: @tordotcom
- 5 Things Dumbledore Should Have Told Harry Potter for the Sake of Basic Human Decency: @use_theforce_em
- 10 Tactics to Help You Write a Book and Change the World: @NinaAmir
- Be Ready When Creativity Strikes: @EdieMelson
- How to Get Your Writing Groove Back: @ChristaAllan
- How to Create an “Idea Bank” to block that Writer’s Block: @annerallen
- Your Writing Health Personality Type Secrets Revealed: @colleen_m_story
- Stop Obsessing Over Criticism: 3 Steps to Emotional Resilience for Writers: @Ivy_S_Writer
- Is Your Novel Actually Fiction or Non? @RTMcDonell
- How to stop yourself from being bored when writing: @pubcoach
- Do Writers Get Better the Longer They Write? @JodyHedlund
- How to Keep Stress From Stealing Your Accomplishments: @jamieraintree
- When writers marry writers: @DavidBellNovels
- Filling the Gap After a Big Project Ends: @enhughesiasm
- Writers, Protect Your Inner Life: by Lan Samantha Chang @lithub
- How to Create Immersive Worlds for Science-Fiction and Fantasy: by Oliver Thiermann @thecreativepenn
- 6 Tips for Taking Inspiration From History: by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants
- The Birth of American Noir: @meganeabbott @parisreview
- Taking in the scenery isn’t always safe in crime fiction: @mkinberg
- Places to unwind as elements in crime fiction: @mkinberg
- Non-fiction Conventions and Obligatory Scenes: by Tim Grahl
- Can You Write a Biography With Limited Sources? by Johanna Luthman @WomenWriters
- 10 Key Elements to Writing a Winning Nonfiction Book Proposal: @mcorvisiero
- How to Write a Nonfiction Book Proposal: @ChadRAllen
- 4 Ways Writing Short Stories Makes You a Better Novelist: by Raymond Esposito @WritersAfterDrk
- 4 Profitable Ways To Use Short Stories: @angee
- Thoughts on teaser chapters:
- Book Marketing Woes: @AuthorSAT
- How Time Zone Differences Affect Your Book Marketing: @cksyme
- 6 Smart Ways Indie Authors Can Collaborate When Marketing: @AngelaAckerman
- 7 Author Promotion Strategies to Learn From: @vickyecommerce
- Contacting influencers and other promo activities: @ZoeMMcCarthy
- 5 Steps to Building a Winning Email List: @huntershea1
- “What I Learned From Hosting My First Instafreebie Giveaway”: @jay_lemming @instafreebie
- How to Setup Group Promos and 10 Reasons to Use @instafreebie: @LincolnjCole
- Behind the Scenes of an Author Newsletter: @EmilyWenstrom
- Mobile, Multimedia, And An Audience Of Voracious Readers: Wattpad: @AshleighGardner @thecreativepenn
- Freedom To Publish: IPA’s 2018 Prix Voltaire Award Nominations Are Open: @Porter_Anderson
- Ingram’s Aerio and Invention Arits Mount ‘Books Against the Storm’: @Porter_Anderson @ronmartinez
- 34 Steps to Take Before Getting a Book Published: @MeganNSharma
- Avoiding Defamation and Libel When Writing About Real People: @HelenSedwick
- Is That Photo Copyrighted? @PTBradley1
- Tips for getting to know your characters: from Caffeine Book Warrior
- How to Actually Listen to Your Protagonist: by Sarah Bradley
- 25 Questions To Ask Your Characters: by Beth Bacon @theverbs
- Write Great Characters With These 12 Jungian Archetypes: @EbooksAndKids
- Top 10 Things to Avoid as A New Writer: @Bang2write
- 5 Stories That Undermine Their Own Message: by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants
- The Finer Points of Great Dialogue: @C_Herringshaw
- Writer Hyu-Wai Loucks with tips for meaningful dialogue:
- 5 Ways to Write a Perfect First Draft (or Nearly): @KMWeiland
- How Layering Your Novel Brings Order out of Chaos: @CSLakin
- 7 Things Not To Worry About During Your First Draft: @ClaireABradshaw
- 7 Ways to Use Acronyms in Writing: by Fae Rowen
- What Parents Can Do to Nurture Good Writers: @DanaGoldstein @NYTimes
- Fixing the Mary Sue Character in Your Story: @SeptCFawkes
- Plot Twist Ideas: 7 Examples and Tips for Twists: @nownovel
- Birth of a Book: Figuring Out the Plot: @Janice_Hardy
- Why you should add colour to your mind maps: @pubcoach
- Stealing from Aesop: @DonMaass
- 3 Ways to Save Your Series and Your Sanity via Excel Spreadsheets: @NicoleLockeNews
- 3 Important Questions Your Story Should Answer: @dougeboch
- How to Plot a Complex Novel in One Day: by Lizard is Writing
- How to copy edit like a pro: @maryhorner @womenonwriting
- 5 Techniques to Revise Your Novel and ‘See Again’: @KnightoftheLion
- Storyboarding with Scrivener (or, A Love Affair with Virtual Index Cards): @Gwen_Hernandez
- 4 To-Do List Apps for Freelance Writers: @aliventures
As always, Elizabeth, thanks for these great links. I’m glad there are a few on getting the writing ‘mojo’ back and the ideas flowing. I think there really are good ways to cope with ‘creativity freeze,’ and it’s good to see them mentioned here.
Always good to figure out a way to push past any writing-related hangups! Hope you have a great week!
There’s even one for science fiction today – cool!
We need to get more of those! Seems like fantasy blogs more than SF. :)
We’re trying an Amazon ad right now. We’ll do a couple before I make a final decision as to whether it works or not.
Let me know how it goes! I haven’t done those.
Very honored to be included among these great resources! Thanks, Elizabeth.
Thanks for being a resource for writers!