by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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- Earning Money Writing Book Reviews: @JMcCannWriter @hopeclark
- Getting the Most Out of Online Networking: @KarenHWhiting @EdieMelson
- Building A Creative Business Brand: @pamelaiwilson @thecreativepenn
- Self-publishing News: Audiblegate Ongoing: @agnieszkasshoes @IndieAuthorALLI
- ReedPop Cancels BookExpo, ‘Retiring’ the Trade Show and BookCon: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @BookExpoAmerica @thebookcon
- The UK’s Society of Authors’ £13,000 Translation Prize Shortlists for 2020: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @Soc_of_Authors
- ‘No Filter’ by Sarah Frier Wins the 2020 Business Book of the Year Award: @Porter_Anderson @sarahfrier @pubperspectives
- Frankfurt Academic Conference: Open Access and the Pandemic: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @Book_Fair
- Calibre Audio Charity Joins the UK’s Big Give Holiday Challenge: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Jumpstart Your Writing With Poetry: @GannonEmme @EdieMelson
- Where Do Ideas Come From? by Tom Meitner @ProWritingAid
- Coping with Trauma as an Element in Crime Fiction: @MargotKinberg
- Five SFF Books Built Around Dead People (Or Mostly Dead People): @jamesdnicoll @tordotcom
- Characters at Loose Ends in Crime Fiction: @MargotKinberg
- 9 Complicated Female Narrators Who Will Surprise You: @nataliezutter @tordotcom
- Seven Great Thrillers That Take Readers to Far-Flung Places: by Rose Carlyle @CrimeReads
- Examples of in media res structure in crime fiction: @MargotKinberg
- Bringing the Traditional Murder Mystery to India: @RVRaman_ @CrimeReads
- The Unlikely Detectives: Unlicensed, Unqualified, and Fully Invested: by Peter Colt @CrimeReads
- How to Find More Time to Write (At Least 30 Minutes): @StefanieFlaxman @copyblogger
- Adjusting Your Writing Schedule: @LindseyReneeR @TheRyanLanz
- Using Your Writer’s Intuition Intentionally: @LauraHighcove @DIYMFA
- On being creative when your kids are home allll day: @austinkleon @masoncurrey
- Is your depression masquerading as perfectionism? @pubcoach
- Why Author Djuna Barnes Withdrew Into Total Seclusion the Last 40 Years of Her Life: @lithub
- One writer’s guide to writing through the pandemic: @PaulaSMunier @CareerAuthors
- Holiday Gifts For Writers: @KarenBanes
- “Nine Ways I Took An Artist’s Rest”: @10minnovelist
- Six Ways Improv and Writing Overlap: @nicolekronzer @WomenWriters
- Writing Christian Fiction: Weaving the Spiritual Thread into Your Story: by Jan Drexler @SKRViLL
- A Brief History of the Political Essay: by David Bromwich @lithub
- Top 5 Mistakes Mystery Writers Make: by Sean Glatch @Bang2write
- Tips for Writing Thrillers: @writingandsuch
- 10 Quick Tips About Writing TV: @GinaFattore @Bang2write
- Screenwriting: Believe Care Invest: Breaking Bad @CockeyedCaravan
- Screenwriting: Believe Care Invest: Cheers: @CockeyedCaravan
- Engineering Your TV Drama Pilot: @ronwillmakeit @thejkstudio
- Great Scene: “American Beauty”: @GoIntoTheStory
- How to Find and Use Images in Your Blog Posts: @inkbitspixels
- 7 Tips for Crafting Fantastic Blog Posts for Christian Fiction Writers: @KatyKauffman28 @EdieMelson
- Favorite Author Marketing Tools: by Judith Briles @JFbookman
- How to Host a Soft Launch for Your Book on Amazon: by Stephanie Chandler @NonfictionAssoc
- What to Include in an Advanced Information Sheet: @dkparsonswriter @SelfPubForm
- What You Can Learn About Platform From a 12-Year-Old: @michellemcox @JaneFriedman
- What Is An Author Platform & Why Do I Need One? @MiaJouBotha @Writers_Write
- Publishing Terms Indie Authors Need to Know: Self-Publishing Glossary: @IndieAuthorALLI
- MVB: North American Booksellers Join Pubeasy in Record Numbers: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Business Musings: Entertainment in the 21st Century: and https://t.co/wWMsmb37U1 @KristineRusch
- Indie authors lead the way: @sandrabeckwith
- Literary Agents Discuss Foreign Rights and the International Book Market: @sangeeta_editor @JaneFriedman
- Authors in 22 Nations Issue Statement for Colleagues: #FreeWordsBelarus: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Words Without Borders in December: Female Sudanese Novelists: @Porter_Anderson @wwborders @pubperspectives
- China Bestsellers October 2020: Contemporary Titles Compete With Classics: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- “What I Wish I’d Known While Querying”: @rmmckenny @WomenWriters
- How to Write a Query Letter: 10 Easy Steps: @nownovel
- Titles and Comp Titles — How To Find the Best Ones For Your Book: @RuthHarrisBooks @annerallen
- Relationship Thesaurus: Friends with Benefits: @AngelaAckerman
- 3 Reasons Character Motivation Matters: @SueBEdwards @womenonwriting
- Compassion Fatigue – Could It Help Your Book? @beccapuglisi
- Your Character’s Why — It’s Everything. Here’s Why. And How: @BethBarany
- What Makes A Character Memorable? by Michael Lee Simpson @CreativeScreen
- How Dr. Seuss Gave Us One of the Most Complex, Socially Important Heist Stories Ever: @oldrutigliano @CrimeReads
- 6 Writing Tips You Can Learn From Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton”: by Jonathan Vars
- Six Signs Your Story Is About the Wrong Character: by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants
- 3 Ways to Create Romantic Tension in Your Love Stories: by J.D. Edwin @write_practice
- Paragraph and Sentence Lengths: by Marilynn Byerly
- Narrative Style: The Heart of Storytelling and Why It Also Matters in Memoir: @KristenLambTX
- How Will Your Hero Die? @riverbendsagas @EdieMelson
- The Nutshell Climactic Choice and Final Step: @stacitroilo @StoryEmpire
- Balancing Action, Dialogue, Description, Summary, and Inner Monologue: by Bucket Siler
- 15 Quick and Easy Proofreading Tips: @KateIFoley @ADDerWORLD
- 32 Steps to Revising Your First Draft: @terrycpierce
A good selection this week.
I’m mostly offline until January, so Merry Christmas, Elizabeth!
Merry Christmas to you, Alex!
As always, Elizabeth, you have such useful links here! I’m glad there are several that look at working through this pandemic. We can’t ignore it, it’s impacting all of us, and I think it helps writers to have ways of coping, of weaving it into our writing, etc..
Absolutely. It helps to have posts that address it and assist writers in finding ways of working through it.
Thanks for the Story Empire and Staci Troilo mention, Elizabeth.
You beat me to it, John. But yes, thank you, Elizabeth. I (and all the authors at Story Empire) appreciate you sharing our work.
Thanks for coming by, Staci, and for being a resource for writers!
It’s my pleasure, John! Great post.
No more Book Expo? Wow, that is huge. I remember going to it the last year it was in DC. If it was diminishing, I think the fact they always had it in NY didn’t help.
It’s like the end of an era, isn’t it?
Great links. I’ll have to read the one on using incantations in a fantasy magic system.
That was a cool post!