Twitterific Writing Links

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

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• ALLi Downgrades Amazon ACX/Audible’s Rating to “Caution”: @IndieAuthorALLI
• Why editors and proofreaders should be using audio: @LouiseHarnby
• The Ultimate Guide to Leveling Up Your Author Business: @IndieAuthorALLI

• The Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Translation’s 2020 Shortlist: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• Craig Brown’s ‘The Beatles in Time’ Wins the Baillie Gifford Prize: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• The Costa Book Awards Announce their 2020 Shortlists: @Porter_Anderson @CostaBookAwards @pubperspectives

• How Star Wars Led to an Amazing Creative Shift (Podcast): @SteveSansweet @DanBlank
• Letter Writing as a Powerful Prompt: @Book_Arch @JaneFriedman
• Five Field Trips For Your Senses: @10minnovelist

• From Cozy to Cold-Blooded: Famous Authors as Sleuths: @avonlea79 @DIYMFA
• Five Badass Vampires From Literature and Pop Culture: @rahdieh @tordotcom
• The Worst Holidays in Literature: @carrievmullins @ElectricLit

• What are Successful Authors Doing? (And how can you be more like them?) @ferol @WrittenWordM

• Constraints and Creativity for Writers: @writingforward
• As a Writer, Always Have A Question: @PeggySueWells @EdieMelson
• Living With Anxiety: by Alison Levy @WomenWriters
• 7 Tips to Deal with Writer Woes: @SarahSallyHamer @EdieMelson
• Five Tips to Feel Better About Writing Angst: @HowellWave @StoryEmpire
• 9 Top Tips To Become An Organized Writer: @AntonyJohnston @Bang2write
• Advice For Writers: @AneMulligan @SouthrnWritrMag
• Is anyone listening? @DanBlank
• The Importance of Choosing What’s Enough in Our Lives: @bethvogt @EdieMelson
• A Writer’s Gratitude Journal: @PaulaSMunier @CareerAuthors
• Surviving Your Editorial Letter: @HankPRyan @CareerAuthors
• Mental Models For Writers And The Empowered Indie Author: @thecreativepenn @MichaelLaRonn
• Why Things Haven’t Been Working Out For Your Writing: @Bang2write
• Author Interview with L.N. Mayer: The Dark Side of Imagination: @Howard_Lovy @IndieAuthorALLI
• Why emotional white space is part of good writing: @gooddirt
• The Holidays Are Here: How to Take Care of Yourself: @cinapelayo @LitReactor
• From a 25+ Year Career in Education to Her First Book, with Valerie Bolling: @valerie_bolling @DanBlank
• David Grossman calls on writers to bear witness to pandemic: @alisonflood @GuardianBooks
• 48 literary social media accounts you should be following: @RasheedaSaka @lithub

• Dystopia as Clickbait: Science Fiction, Doomscrolling, and Reviving the Idea of the Future: by Christopher Brown @tordotcom

• Too Young for Horror? @helpfulsnowman @LitReactor

• 2 Methods for Structuring Your Memoir: @GuerillaMemoir @JaneFriedman

• Book Marketing Tips from 10 Travel Writers: @BirdsOAFpress

• Crime Fiction: Sending Signals to Readers that Something Bad is About to Happen: @MargotKinberg
• The Con: Portraits of Grifters and Scam Artists in Book, Film, and Real Life: @lisaunger @CrimeReads

• How the new diversity is transforming science fiction’s future: @TashaRobinson @Polygon

• People With Chronic Illness Are Missing From YA Fiction: @pennyjoelson @diversebooks

• Knowing Your Readers Is Key to Book Marketing for Self Published Authors: @Bookgal
• +127 of Best Free and Paid Book Promotion Sites and Submission Tools: @DaveChesson
• Marketing Your Book is Like Flirting, Dating and Getting Engaged: @WatersAuthor @10minnovelist

• Online Etiquette for Writers: @EdieMelson @SouthrnWritrMag
• Should You Hire a Social Media Assistant? by Barbara Linn Probst @JaneFriedman
• Effective Social Media for Your Best Book Marketing Campaign: @Bookgal

• Tips for Judging a Writing Contest: Questions to Ask and Ways to Stay Organized: @TheIWSG
• IPA Elects Bodour and Pansa: Its First Female Leadership Team: @Porter_Anderson @Bodour @karinepansa @IntPublishers @pubperspectives
• Germany’s Bertelsmann/PRH To Buy Simon & Schuster for US$2.175 Billion: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• How to Get a Book Deal in 2020: 6 Steps for Success: @ReedsyHQ
• International Authors’ Organizations Not Satisfied in #Audiblegate Dispute: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives

• How Audible-ACX Returns Policy Penalizes Authors: @victoriastrauss

• NPD: One in Four Books Is Purchased in the USA During the Holidays: @Porter_Anderson @npdgroup @pubperspectives

• France’s Intermarché Offers Bookstores Its E-Commerce Network: @jaroslawadamows @pubperspectives
• Surveying the Coronavirus’ Impact on the International Book Business: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @IntPublishers

• Effective comps in your query: @Janet_Reid

• How to format a manuscript: @NathanBransford

• Fictional characters quoting real people: @Janet_Reid

• Writing Predictable/Unpredictable Characters: @Lindasclare
• Writing Older Characters: @evmysterywriter @killzoneauthors
• A Character-Creating Exercise That Will Make Your Story Stand Out: by Natalie Gertsenberger @NaNoWriMo

• When Writing About Concealed Weapons: from How to Fight Write

• Looking For Your Story’s Heart? Try To Write Its Headline: by PJ Parrish @killzoneauthors
• The Secret to Organic Storytelling: by Arielle Haughee @FloridaWriters1
• 8 Types of Characters to Include in Your Story: @JerryBJenkins
• 5 Ways Paragraphing Supports Story: @kcraftwriter @writerunboxed
• The Right Way to Write an Autistic Character: @fodderfigure @ElectricLit
• Five Tips for Writing About Family Dynamics: by Erin Tyler @DIYMFA
• Vivid Verbs: Where to Find Them: @mindofkyleam @ProWritingAid
• Story Structure: 7 Narrative Structures All Writers Should Know: @ReedsyHQ

• The Parts of Naming Your Main Character: @mike54martin @KevinPThornton

• A Complete Guide To Antecedents: by Krystal N. Craiker @ProWritingAid

• Editing Fiction: When to DIY and When to Outsource: @alexa_whitewolf @writingcookbook

• Critiquing a friend’s book… how do you tell them it doesn’t work? @Roz_Morris

• Setting of a Story: What Is It? And How to Write It: @ReedsyHQ

• Evocative Words Generate Emotion: by Ann Gordon @RMFWriters

• Hard Or Soft Worldbuilding: Which Is Right For You? by Oliver Fox @Writers_Write

• How to Get Rid of Repeats in Your Manuscript with ProWritingAid: @ProWritingAid

• A Free Writing Course from @RL_Stine :
• Should a Fiction Writer Use a Thesaurus? @jamesscottbell @killzoneauthors