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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• • Content in Digital Times (from the #PubTechConnect Conference); @Porter_Anderson

• 10 Empowering Writers’ Retreats for Women: @ElenTurner

• • 3 Ways Non-Fiction Helps Creativity: @chicklitgurrl

• • “How I Kept Writing After My Muse Died”: @khsavage

• • Top 10 Underrated Soundtracks for Creative Inspiration: @TjadenSylvester

• • 6 Writing Tips to Learn From Theater: @Magic_Violinist

• • 7 Big Reasons to Finish Writing Your Novel: @lornafaith

• 5 Ways to Make Writing Prompts Work For You: @StoryADayMay @DIYMFA

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

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

• • 50 Shades Of Shakespeare: How The Bard Used Food As Racy Code: by Anne Bramley @NPR

• • Why you should read books you hate: @pubcoach @PamelaPaulNYT

• • These Books Were Once Considered “Classics” But Are Now Largely Forgotten: @PassiveVoiceBlg @maddy_efff

• Industry Notes:Europeana Opens ‘Literary Tour’;Trio in UK Opens Literary Events Consultancy: @Porter_Anderson

• Chasing Perfection as a Writer: @p2p_editor

• • 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

• 6 Ways to Transition Out of Writer’s Block: @KathrynR47

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

• • 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

• • How to Develop Relationships with Other Writers: @WriteOnOnline

• • How to Keep Writing When Others Stomp on Your Dreams: @colleen_m_story

• • Writing About Suffering: @KatMGraves

• • 5 Reasons Fellow Writers Are Essential to Your Writing Life: @jessicastrawser @WritersDigest

• • 3 sobering facts about being a writer: @jasonbougger

• • How To Take A Compliment: @dawnafinch

• • 5 Scientifically Verified Reasons You’ll Hate Yourself if You Stop Writing: @ChadRAllen

• • 6 Tips to Help Writers Function at Their Peak: @CSLakin

• • Questions Readers Most Frequently Ask Writers: @SeptCFawkes

• • Keep a Positivity Journal: @WriteNowCoach

• • Librarians of the 21st Century: Worst Story Time Ever? (Or Best?) @guybrarian @lithub

• Quick Decisive Moves That Will Help You Get Organized: @10MinNovelists

• • Is Winter In Fantasy Always Evil? @NicolaAlter

• • 5 Underused Settings in Spec Fic: by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants

• Five Redundant Characters in Spec Fic: by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants

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

• 7 Dracula Adaptations That Totally Change the Story: by Nathaniel Brehmer @WickedHorrorTV

• ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Interpreted by Italian Illustrators: @balbusso_twins @porter_anderson

• How to Write Your Memoir with Fun, Easy Lists: @cdetler

• • A Murder-Scene Checklist: @LeeLofland

• • The Structure of a Murder Mystery in 5 Acts: @woodwardkaren

• • How Murder Mysteries Differ from Other Kinds of Stories: @woodwardkaren

• • Sounds as clues and red herrings in crime fiction: @mkinberg

• • 5 Comics Every Crime Writer Needs To Read: @repokempt @LitReactor

• Familial estrangement as an element in crime fiction: @mkinberg

• Epistolary Lit: 8 Nonfiction Books Written in the Form of Letters: @TobiasCarroll

• 37 Common Poetry Terms: @robertleebrewer

• • Planning the Perfect Love Triangle: @Roz_Morris

• 61 favorite romantic quote from literature: @Astrohaus

• Screenwriting: Documentary Writing: by Alan Goforth @CreativeScreen

• What’s Important in Writing Short Stories: @ZoeMMcCarthy

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

• Your Author Bio: Does it Help Sales or Stop them Dead? @annerallen

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

• Blogging tips from @thecreativepenn : @TheWriterMag

• • Why Getting Great Reviews Is Your Job: @FrugalBookPromo @TheIWSG

• Responding to Reviews and Comments:

• Book Tour Tips: @theladygreer @WriterUnboxed

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

• • 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

• • Amazon Keywords to Increase Sales and Pull in New Readers: @Bookgal

• 6 Ways to Market Your Book: @lornafaith

• • Author Platform Success Plan: @loishoffmanDE

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

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

• 3 Unconventional Ways To Use Social Media To Effectively Find Your Readers: @thecreativepenn

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

• 3 Ways to Create a Video Studio on Any Budget: by Peter Gartland @SMExaminer

• 9 Things Authors Need On Their Landing Pages: @KarenDimmick

• • 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

• • Zines: Dead Or Alive? @helpfulsnowman

• • Publishing fights for readers’ attentions: ‘Is consumer service the strategy?’: @Porter_Anderson @wischenbart

• • Indie Bookstore Day : 7 stores to enjoy: @My_poetic_side

• 5 Tips for Successful Audiobooks: @RichardRieman

• ‘From data-charged business to a library centered on a community’s needs: @Porter_Anderson

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

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

• • Warsaw Book Fair Welcomes This Year’s Guest of Honor: Germany: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives

• • ‘How Can We Make Schools More Digital?’ Digital Education in Germany: @Porter_Anderson @benjuschkin

• • Arabic Literature: Kalimat’s First Decade of Publishing in the UAE: @Porter_Anderson @Bodour

• • Saudi Author Mohammaed Hasan Alwan Wins 2017 Intl Prize for Arabic Fiction @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives

• ‘Writing and art…bring(s) us together’: Interview with Award Winner Mohammed Hasan Alwan: @Porter_Anderson

• ‘Fake News’ In Self-Publishing: @JFbookman

• • Submitting to Literary Agents Who Have Already Rejected Your Work: @Kid_Lit

• • Making Lemonade Out of 100 Query Rejections: @bethhararwrites

• 8 Troubleshooting Tips For Writers Struggling to Find a Literary Agent: @sarahannjuckes

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

• From brief to book: A guide to book illustration for beginners: @CreativeBloq

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

• • Create Mystery, Not Confusion, in the Opening: @jamesscottbell

• Use Powerful Hooks To Snag a Reader: @jenniferprobst

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

• • Character Motivations vs Morals: @AuthorSAT

• • What Fiction Writers Can Learn From Hamilton’s Character Flaws: by Rachel Randall @WritersDigest

• • How To Write An Awesome Lone Wolf Character: @Bang2write

• Using Conflict to Form Character: @scriptmag

• Emotion vs Feeling: @DavidCorbett_CA

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

• • 9 Simple Tips for Writing With Clarity: @monicamclark

• • 6 Bad Habits You Can Write Without: @paulaahicks

• Why Readers Quit: No Flaw: @DavidHSafford

• • 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

• 9 tips to fast drafting a novel: @RachelHauck

• Why Closure is Important in Cliffhangers: @millie_ho

• Rules for Flashbacks: @CockeyedCaravan

• • 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

• Top 10 novels on rural America: by Emily Ruskovich @GuardianBooks

• • Writing More Meaningful Symbolism: @millie_ho

• • Why You Should Be Able to State Your Story’s Theme in One Sentence: @KathyEdens1

• The Expansion of a Theme: @Scott_Thought

• • The Writer’s Guide to Time Travel: @amabaie

• • 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

• • 1 Writer’s Writing Process: From Idea to Published Book: @ElizabethHeiter @WomenWriters

• • 8 Ways to Become an Even Better Writer: @alioop7

• • Co-Writing a Novel: @JasonMHough

• • Compound Bows vs. Crossbows: Which is Better for Fiction Writing? @benjaminsobieck

• • Top 10 Rules Writers Love To Hate: @Bang2write

• • Teaching Writing: Shaking Up Personal Narrative: @rdgtchr13

• • Is There Such A Thing As A Good MacGuffin? @standoutbooks

• • The 6 Best Things About Mother/Daughter Bonds in Writing: @kathyhpbooks

• • Writing Short or Going Long? @Lindasclare

• • How to Land a Column Writing Gig: by Gayla Grace @hopeclark

• Prologues and Epilogues – Is There a Point to Them? @HelenaFairfax

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

• • Storyteller’s Rulebook: Breaking Limited POV? Do It Early, Often Enough, and Briefly: @CockeyedCaravan

• Omniscient 3rd Person: “Folksy Narrator/ Storyteller” by Tina L. Jens @BlackGateDotCom

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

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

• • Creating a Strong Moral Premise for Our Story: @JamiGold

• 3 Tips For Creating Better Plots: @angee

• • 3 Cases of Superfluous Semicolons: @writing_tips

• 7 Types of Punctuation Errors: @writing_tips

• • 10 Writing Fillers To Cut Right Now: @Bang2write

• • Purple Prose: What It Is and How to Exterminate It: @woodwardkaren

• Quality Control—After the Editor @francessbrown @womenonwriting

• A Writing Group that Works: @judyfogarty

• Creating an Irresistible Series: @Haven4Writers

• • Writing Character Descriptions That Work: @aliventures

• • How description works in our stories: @PBRWriter

• Storytelling Through Costume: The Badass Black Tank Top: @gaileyfrey

• Five Worldbuilding Mistakes Even Enthusiasts Make: by Chris Winkle @mythcreants

• Google Docs for Novel Writing: @WilliamKing9

• Low-tech Tools for Writers: @BillFerris

• Character Motivation Thesaurus Entry: Pursuing Justice For Oneself or Others: @beccapuglisi

• • RT @Hiveword: Track *anything* in the Hiveword Plus novel organizer with custom types and fields. #writing #amwriti…

• • How to End Books in a Series: @p2p_editor