Twitterific Writing Links

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

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

Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 40,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers.

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• What Authors Can Learn From the Music Business: @davekusek @thecreativepenn

• • How to Use Pinterest for Writing Ideas and Inspiration: @WritingForward

• 3 Ways Non-Fiction Helps Creativity: @chicklitgurrl

• How to use Active Reading to Become a Better Writer: by Jed Herne @ProWritingAid

• • 7 Crazy Things to Do When You Need 30 Minutes to Write: @colleen_m_story

• • 4 Ways Writers Can Be Productive When Their Energy Sags: @CSLakin

• Can Twitter Help You Finish Your Book? @LindaKSienkwicz

• 4 Top Tips to Overcome Your Fear of Writing: @BadRedheadMedia

• • 7 ways to stop editing while you write: @pubcoach

• 10 Crafty Ways to Hit 1,000 Words Per Hour: by Linda Formichelli @smartbloggerhq

• • 8 must-see movies for creative late bloomers: @DebraEve

• • Do Some People Lack the Talent to be Authors? @KristenLambTX

• • 5 Obnoxious Questions People Ask Writers: @saraheboucher

• • The Health Risks Of Being A Writer: @RobinStorey1

• • Are You Writing The Wrong Thing? Life and Focus for Writers: @katekrake

• Why You Need Guts To Write The Good Stuff: @Bang2write

• Is Winter In Fantasy Always Evil? @NicolaAlter

• Why Are We Acting Like Smart, Socially Conscious Horror is Something New? @FreddyInSpace

• How To Write Creative Nonfiction: @woodwardkaren

• Poetry as emo, emo as poetry: by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib @AltPress

• • Planning the Perfect Love Triangle: @Roz_Morris

• 61 favorite romantic quote from literature: @Astrohaus

• Screenwriting: Great Scene: “Psycho”: @GoIntoTheStory

• 16 YA Authors Discuss Being Autistic, Dealing with Guilt, and More: @ABoredAuthor

• • Filtering out spammers who want to guest blog for us: @pokercubster

• Blogging tips from @thecreativepenn : @TheWriterMag

• Author Struggles: Gaining Reviews: @JamiGold

• Book Tour Tips: @theladygreer @WriterUnboxed

• How to Attract New Readers with the Author Playlist Strategy: @BuildYourBrandA

• Crowdfunding the Written Word: @ErinnaMettler @inkylinks

• • Top 5 SWAG Picks for Every Author: @K8Tilton

• • How to Setup Amazon Author Central and Your Author Page: @ValBreitEditor

• 5 Creative Ways to Market Your New Book: by Cassie Phillips @WhereWritersWin

• • Branding 101: Keeping Our Sanity while Building a Brand: @JamiGold

• • Author Platform Success Plan: @loishoffmanDE

• 4 Must-Haves for Your Author Platform: @BuildYourBrandA

• From Fun to Serious: Using Pinterest Differently: @CaballoFrances

• Create an Awesome Marketing Plan: Media and Speaking: @Melissa_Tagg @NovelRocket

• • 8 Lessons Bookstores Could Learn From Comic Book Stores: @helpfulsnowman

• • Remember Chutes and Ladders? Book Publishing is Just Like the Game: @EJWenstrom

• • Submitting Book Excerpts to Small Publications: A Success Story: @writeabook

• • Debating Academic Books and Digital Dynamics: @MarkPiesing

• The Deep Space of Digital Reading:why we shouldn’t worry about leaving print behind: @poissel

• How Thought Catalog Uses Social Media Data To Drive Book Publishing: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives

• • “VA Tech partners with the UK’s Overleaf on authoring tools for the univ.: @Porter_Anderson @virginia_tech

• • Germany and Self-Publishing Today: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives

• • Industry Notes: New £20,000 ‘Kindle Storyteller’ Award; BookCon Announces Panels: @Porter_Anderson

• International Publishers Association Issues Freedom to Publish Manifesto: @Porter_Anderson @IntPublishers

• Make the Most of Your Book Back Cover With These Tips: @NewShelvesBooks

• Translation as Activism: by Jennifer-Naomi Hofmann @lithub

• Real Life Diagnostics: Does This YA Fantasy Opening Work? @Janice_Hardy

• Creating a Dynamic Character for your Novel or Short Story : @ReedsyHQ

• Producing an Emotional Response in Readers: Inner Mode, Outer Mode, and Other Mode: @DonMaass @JaneFriedman

• 12 Traits for a Lovable Hero: by Chris Winkle @mythcreants

• 5 Tips to Writing Secondary Characters That Pop: @CSLakin

• • What a Sensitivity Reader Is (and Isn’t) and How to Hire One: @NataliaSylv

• Creating Diversity from Generic White Script: @WritingwColor

• You Know More than You Think, So Trust the Process: @LDoyleOwens @WomenWriters

• Why Closure is Important in Cliffhangers: @millie_ho

• • “Literature rapidly increases our learning”: @farnamstreet

• • In Praise of the Bossy Big Sisters in Fiction: @erikawynn @lithub

• • Before Arrival: appreciating Story Of Your Life by Ted Chiang: @Roz_Morris

• The Primal and Mythical Allure of Beauty and the Beast: @mariamtatar @SignatureReads

• Writing More Meaningful Symbolism: @millie_ho

• • 5 Ways Bad Reviews Can Help You to Become a Better Writer: @lisajordan @NovelRocket

• • The Novel That Isn’t a Novel—Do You Really Have a Story? @KristenLambTX

• • Directing Reader Attention: @Kid_Lit

• • What Rodeo Teaches About Writing: @kidell

• • The Extreme Discomfort of Reaching the Middle of Your Books: @rsmollisonread

• • How to Get Violence Right in Your Fiction: @FredBobJohn @JaneFriedman

• • Tips for Engaging the Reader: @AJHumpage

• • What’s So Bad About the Advice, “Write What You Know”? @10MinNovelists

• 6 Secrets To Writing A Thrilling Argument: @standoutbooks

• Learn How to Pace Your Story in 8 Steps: @KMWeiland

• Storyteller’s Rulebook: Name as Few Characters as Possible: @CockeyedCaravan

• 5 Steps to Building an Outline for Writing a Novel: @cgriffinauthor

• • How to Make Every Story Idea the Best It Can Be: @Storygeeks

• Writing a Story or Novel Based on One Emotion: @wickerkat

• • How to know if you have a good editor: @NathanBransford

• 10 Writing Fillers To Cut Right Now: @Bang2write

• How to Tell if Criticism is Valid (And What to do About Valid Criticism): @agnonia @WritersDigest

• All about writing scenes: @TMRadcliffe

• • Writing Character Descriptions That Work: @aliventures

• How description works in our stories: @PBRWriter

• Scrivener vs Word: @DaveChesson

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