by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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How Far Back in Time Could You Go and Still Understand English? http://ow.ly/4n1WTw @scholarlykitchn
How Disaster Movies Creep Into 1 Writer’s Writing: http://ow.ly/4n1X24 @WomenWriters @SamTongeWriter
How to be a Better and Happier Writer: http://ow.ly/4n1X6N @MahinWriter
3 reasons why you should show your work: http://ow.ly/4n1X8Y @austinkleon
On worrying about the scarcity of new ideas: comic from @inkyelbows: http://ow.ly/4n1XeZ
The Literary Spy Novel: 5 Recommendations: http://ow.ly/4n1XmY @paulvidich @ElectricLit
13 Ways Writers are Mistaken for Serial Killers: http://ow.ly/4n1XzP @KristenLambTX
How Indie Authors Can Grow their Following on Twitter: http://ow.ly/4n1XxB by @jessicadavis @theindiepubmag
How to Promote Your Book Without Being Annoying: http://ow.ly/4n1Xq0 @egabbert
Friends as Enemies: http://ow.ly/4n1Yr5 @beccapuglisi
Choosing Your Words Carefully: http://ow.ly/4n1YpR by Ursula Bloom @WomenWriters
First Draft Writing: 7 Tips for Easier Drafting: http://ow.ly/4n1XlL @nownovel
Everything You Need to Know About 3rd-Person POV: http://ow.ly/4n1YrP @KMWeiland
Done is Better Than Perfect When It Comes to First Drafts: http://ow.ly/4n1Yar @hwrightwriter
Group Blogging: Humanize Your Blog to Drive Engagement: http://ow.ly/4n1Xto @kikolani
An agent on novels with shorter than usual word count: http://ow.ly/4n1Yg7 @Janet_Reid
A common problem with dialogue: http://ow.ly/4n1Yul @storyfix
US-Based Copyright Clearance Center Buys UK’s Ixxus: http://ow.ly/4nuD3r @Porter_Anderson @steveodart
Writing Building Blocks: Paragraph Breaks & Voice: http://ow.ly/4n1YkG @JamiGold
. @ThatKevinSmith on Screenwriting: http://ow.ly/4n3zTA and http://ow.ly/4n3zWj @steveryfle
4 Types of Character Flaws: http://ow.ly/4n3zyy @AngelaAckerman
Lessons From @jamesscottbell : Characters That Jump Off The Page: http://ow.ly/4n3zAi @AngelaAckerman
Poets: Use Your Skills to Nab Freelance Writing Jobs: http://ow.ly/4n3zvR @Carolynesutra
Subsidiary Rights: http://ow.ly/4n3zrY @SusanSpann
6 Books on Writing Science Fiction Compared: http://ow.ly/4n1WQy by Chris Winkle @mythcreants
Harvard Book Store Partners with Canada’s Shelfie: http://ow.ly/4nuCRH @Porter_Anderson @getshelfie
The Anatomy of a Print-Only Deal: http://ow.ly/4nuyg5 @KatyRegnery
Success: –what exactly is it? http://ow.ly/4n1exn @dianapfrancis
Using Close-Ups in Your Scenes to Get Personal: http://ow.ly/4n1ess @CSLakin
Writing fight scenes: knocking someone out without serious injury: http://ow.ly/4n1eyl from How to Fight Write
Writing Time And Place: http://ow.ly/4n1etn @AnthonyEhlers
Making Money: Anthologies: http://ow.ly/4n1evS @johnhartness
A Modern Literary Glossary: Definitions for Our Ever-Changing Reading World: http://ow.ly/4n1emg by Jacob Lambert
10 Russian Literary Heroines to Know: http://ow.ly/4nsa1N @gmerades @thelithub
5 Ways to Use LinkedIn Publisher for Business: http://ow.ly/4n1eea @LinkedInExpert
Creating Promotional Copy That Works: Tag Lines http://ow.ly/4n1eci @MarcyKennedy
Your Basic Author Media Kit: http://ow.ly/4n1e8r @Sarah_Nicolas
How Any Author Can Update Their Book Data on BookBub: http://ow.ly/4n1e5a @DianaUrban
How to Write Better using our Multiple Intelligences: http://ow.ly/4mYFgM @hunteremkay
7 Ways To Finish Your Story: http://ow.ly/4mYCrt @Yeomanis
Writing Lessons From The Masters: http://ow.ly/4mYCoY @jamesscottbell
Goodreads Introduces Kindle Ebook Giveaways Beta Program (U.S.): http://ow.ly/4nshbb @goodreads @suzanneskyvara
Spam, Spam, Spam Spam: Inkitt and the Grand Novel Contest: http://ow.ly/4nsbJn @victoriastrauss
The Winners of the Best Translated Book Awards (BTBA): http://ow.ly/4nsbxk @The_Millions
Engineering a Fiction Series: http://ow.ly/4mYCuZ @ashkrafton
The book proposal: better late than lousy: http://ow.ly/4mYCiM @dglm
What Kind of Day Job Should a Writer Have? http://ow.ly/4n1bLj @dana_cann @thelithub
An agent on having more than one agent: http://ow.ly/4mYCfE @Janet_Reid
Love is Boring and Hard to Write About, And Yet… http://ow.ly/4ns9OW @lydia_millet @thelithub
Using Preorders to Boost New Release Book Sales: http://ow.ly/4mYAcc @melissafmiller
How to Attract Media Coverage for Your Book Launch: http://ow.ly/4mYAgk @LisaLondon3
Creating Easy Branded Images for Your Blog and Social Media: http://ow.ly/4mYzua @kikimojo
Revisiting your book marketing strategies: http://ow.ly/4nq7tf by Deborah Nam-Krane
How to Find Great Content Your Readers Will Love: http://ow.ly/4mYzxU @CaballoFrances
11 Tips to help you build your online community: http://ow.ly/4mYA6E @catmichaelsBook for @annerallen
5 reasons listening to audiobooks can improve our writing: http://ow.ly/4mYAB6 @JasonMHough
A New Platform for Serialized Work: Tapas Media: http://ow.ly/4mYArR @JaneFriedman
Querying: when you realize the error AFTER you hit send: http://ow.ly/4mYAmH @Janet_Reid
Build an Audience for Your Novel by Figuring Out Who Your Audience Is: http://ow.ly/4mYzUO @FauziaBurke
Share your talent instead of wasting it: http://ow.ly/4mYAv2 @juliemusil
Posing like a man in author photos: http://ow.ly/4mYzGT @AFilipacchi @nytimes
10 Things Authors Get Wrong When Writing About the Military: http://ow.ly/4npgw9 @benjaminsobieck
3 Steps to Reinvigorating Your Writing: http://ow.ly/4npgpJ @chicklitgurrl
Tap the Psychology of Conflict: http://ow.ly/4mQN1t @JanalynVoigt
Crime Writers: 20 Survival Tips for Real and Fictional Officers: http://ow.ly/4mV0wp @LeeLofland
Dialogue Words: 100 Alternatives: http://ow.ly/4mUXuG @nownovel
Launching Your Book (Without Losing Your Mind): http://ow.ly/4mV0HV @GailZMartin
Colombian Cyclists: Bringing books and readers together: http://ow.ly/4nmCr6 @lagunalibros @adamcritchley @pubperspectives
How to Write Teen Girl Characters: http://ow.ly/4mUYG0 @missnoraz @thelithub
Protagonists: Superman Syndrome: http://ow.ly/4nmqU3 @p2p_editor
AP Will No Longer Capitalize ‘Internet’ and ‘Web’: http://ow.ly/4nmvC0 @APStylebook @GrammarGirl
The new fiction of solitude: http://ow.ly/4mUXMy by Nicholas Dames @TheAtlantic
Outlining With Scrivener: http://ow.ly/4mUXls @Figures
The importance of theme, or, the Controlling Idea: http://ow.ly/4mUXwl by Shawn Coyne
5 Ways Perfectionism Attacks Your Creativity: http://ow.ly/4mV00h @emily_tjaden
7 things to avoid when you write for children: http://ow.ly/4mUZCp @MiaJouBotha
4 Famous Writers Whose Prose Was Crap: http://ow.ly/4mUYeS @cathinnorway
8 Time-Tested Personality Traits of the Best Poets and Writers: http://ow.ly/4mUXXA by Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen
Writing Head Trauma: Can A Blow To the Head Cause Unconsciousness and Amnesia? http://ow.ly/4nml8m @DPLyleMD
Inner Conflict in Fiction: http://ow.ly/4mQMXy @JanalynVoigt
Why Literature Needs Psychology: http://ow.ly/4nkJVq @jenniferrenu @thelithub
Why You Should Write on Medium: http://ow.ly/4nkRRL @joshspilker
International Identifiers: All About ISNI With Laura Dawson: http://ow.ly/4nhlfG @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
How a CharacterÂ’’s Choice of Clothing Benefits the Story: http://ow.ly/4mTgh6 from It’s a Writer Thing
The Serious Lack of Diversity in Book Publishing: http://ow.ly/4mTgIM @ilanaslightly @broadly
16 Books About Madness: http://ow.ly/4mTe4N @chris_shultz81
How 1 Author Writes History: http://ow.ly/4mTgwZ @nealbascomb @thelithub
Crime writers: anatomy of an evidence room: http://ow.ly/4mTdVW @LeslieBudewitz
9 Myths of Being a Published Author: http://ow.ly/4mTdK2 @bclaypolewhite
Copywriting: A Critical Skill for Every Writer: http://ow.ly/4mTdZA @terrywhalin
How Billy Joel Taught 1 Writer To Write: http://ow.ly/4nkJ0X @bwoodauthor @thelithub
6 Tips for Better Loglines: http://ow.ly/4mTgne @dougeboch
The benefit of being a hybrid author: http://ow.ly/4mTecl @michellecox33
7 Tips for Better Pitches: http://ow.ly/4mTdGW @dougeboch
7 Ways To Overcome Destructive Self-Criticism: http://ow.ly/4mTdTX @colleen_m_story
The Speechwriter’s Checklist: http://ow.ly/4mTdPx @Writers_Write
Talking Heads (Top 10 Dialogue Writing Mistakes): http://ow.ly/4mQMU4 @JanalynVoigt
When characters make plans, how should you reveal them to your readers? http://ow.ly/4nifl3 @lkblackburne
Types of Conflict in Literature: http://ow.ly/4mQMOD @JanalynVoigt
5 Mistakes Self Published Authors Make in 2016: http://ow.ly/4mQJNy @LPOBryan
9 Ways to Stunt Our Writing Growth: http://ow.ly/4niac9 @EdieMelson
Is Your Use of Social Media Marketing Efficient? http://ow.ly/4mQJHy @wendygarfinkle
The links I shared last week: http://ow.ly/4niI6y .All the links I’ve ever shared (30K+, free and searchable): writerskb.com
Crime Writers: Eyewitness Testimony: Test Your Observation Skills: http://ow.ly/4ni940 @SueColetta1
5 Common Writing Fears and How to Overcome Them: http://ow.ly/4mQJBo @JanalynVoigt
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Spam, spam, spam – now I’m going to have that Monty Python song in my head all day!
Alex–I know, right? Ha! And the article was so right…I’d gotten something from Inkitt, too.
Thanks so much for these great links, as always, Elizabeth. So many good ones on editing this week – I love it!
Margot–Me too…always good to get editing tips. Have a great week!
Thanks for sharing my post!
Deb–It was a good one! :)
Thanks for linking to me. I’m blown away by this list!
Kirsten–Happy to do it…great post! :)
Thanks, Elizabeth! Love Angela Ackerman’s “Lessons from James Scott Bell”—I got that book too and it was great.
Colleen–I have another of Jim’s books, but not that one. Sounds good…I’ll put it on my TBR list. :)