by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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- How to Speak to Journalists Before Your Book is Published (And Not Give It All Away): @LisaTener
- What Do Editors Do Anyway? @topshelfedits
- A Novelist’s Necessary Evils: @jaelmchenry @WriterUnboxed
- Five Sci-Fi Books Featuring Futuristic Technology: by Veronica Roth @tordotcom
- 9 Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories about Music: @SarahPinsker @ElectricLit
- Why Publish: Iseult Murphy on the Power of Getting Your Writing Out There: @sarahstypos @write_practice
- Fears That Usurp Writing: @chicklitgurrl
- Showing, Telling, Making: @davidfarland
- 6 Myths About Writing: @katy239 @TheRyanLanz
- 7 Tips To Remove Distractions While Writing and Blogging: @akshayhallur @Writers_Write
- Can Writers Lose Their Fingerprints? @SueColetta1 @killzoneauthors
- Writing Under Duress: How to Persevere When Your Job, Life, and Kids Are Also a Priority: @saderotica @LitReactor
- Selectively Keeping My Mouth Shut about My Writing: @AmrenOrtega
- Should You Really Get Up Early to Write? @AnneJanzer
- I Don’t Feel Like Writing, Yet Here I Am. @MegDowell
- The Protagonist’s Lack of Metaphor Family, Argument Tactic, Strong Motivation, Goals, Insistence, and Decision-Making Ability in “Get Out”: @CockeyedCaravan
- Script to Screen: “Zombieland”: @GoIntoTheStory
- Wrapping Up the Internal and External Journeys of “Get Out” : @CockeyedCaravan
- Compelling Book Descriptions: by David Kudler @JFbookman
- How to Improve Your Amazon Book Descriptions: @Bookgal @JaneFriedman
- Tips on Audiobook Production for Indie Authors: @KyleRbrtShultz
- Daunt at FutureBook Live: Barnes & Noble’s ‘Crucifyingly Boring’ Stores: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @TheFutureBook
- How Audiobooks Became a Powerful, Unexpected Format to Sell Books: @Rhys_Keller
- FutureBook Live: Audiobooks, Katie Espiner on Publishing Management: @Porter_Anderson @kesp @pubperspectives
- No, Woke Culture Is NOT ‘The Death Of Storytelling’: @Bang2write
- Remembering German Publisher Monika Schoeller: by Hannah Johnson @pubperspectives
- 7 Things You Should Know About Kobo: @Joni_DiPlacido @RomanceUniv
- Self-publishing News: AI and the Indie Author: @agnieszkasshoes @IndieAuthorALLI
- BookNet: Canada’s Book Club Memberships Have Doubled This Year: @Porter_Anderson @BookNet_Canada
- China Bestsellers October 2019: Better Days by Jiu Yuexi: @Porter_Anderson
- The Woes of Unsolicited Manuscripts in Publishing: @CindyDevoted @EdieMelson
- Are Your Expectations for a Literary Agent Too High? @tessaemilyhall @A3writers
- Make your plot tangible (Query critique): @NathanBransford
- How to Write a Query Letter that Makes Agents and Editors Swoon: by Michael Cristiano @TheRyanLanz
- Submitting ork? Build a Better Battering Ram: @davidfarland
- How to Reinforce Your Characters with Detailed World-Building: @NaNoWriMo
- Character Type: Orphan: @GoIntoTheStory
- When Your Character Is His Own Worst Enemy: @LiveWriteThrive
- 5 ways to make a character more sympathetic: @NathanBransford
- Readers Must Sympathize with Characters: @Lindasclare
- 6 Ways Terry Pratchett Can Help You Improve Your Writing: by Robert Wood @standoutbooks
- Why it works: “Go Tell It on the Mountain” by James Baldwin: @NathanBransford
- Narrative Drive – Do You Have It? @JordanDane @killzoneauthors
- 10 Tips for Writing a Story That Will Become a Fandom: @_HannahHeath
- Joseph Finder’s 8 Tips For Writers: @Writers_Write
- Chekhov’s Gun: The Importance of Follow-Through in Fiction: @annerallen
- Writing Callbacks: @SeptCFawkes
- What Does It Mean to Write About Happiness? by Andrea Lundgren @TheRyanLanz
- What’s Your Point? Figuring Out What Goes Into Each Chapter: by PJ Parrish @killzoneauthors
- What is Your Core Message? @LisaEBetz @A3writers
- A Comma Here, A Comma There: by Carlton Hughes @A3writers
- How to Make Words That End in Y Plural: @GrammarGirl
- Punctuation Marks: The Serial Comma: @WritingForward
- Quick and Tidy Tips to Streamline Editing: @GinaArdito @TheIWSG
- Shoot the Weasel Words: @AndreaMerrell
Glad to see you back, Elizabeth – I hope you had a great holiday. And thanks, as ever, for these links. I really like the variety. The one that caught my eye is the one about figuring out what goes into each chapter. I think it’s easy to forget that each part of a story – each scene – should contribute something to the story. If it doesn’t, we need to think about whether we should even leave it in.
Thanks, Margot! I hope you did, too. And good point…if a scene isn’t critical, we should look at cutting it.