by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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- 9 “Other” Jobs of a Full-Time Freelance Writer: by Tom Meitner
- Successful Freelancing in 2021: @teachandprofitu @ProWritingAid
- Get Busy on Your Waiting (Writing) List: @khogrefeparnell @EdieMelson
- Growth Mindset for Indie Authors in 2021: @sacha_black
- Travel Writers Mistakes: 5 Errors that Will Keep You from Success: by Roy Stevenson
- US Black History Month: Macmillan Learning Awards ‘Black Stories’: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Film and Television Rights: Frankfurt’s ‘Books at Berlinale’ March 4 and 5: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Waiting for the Plane Tickets: Rights Pros on Digital Events: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- British Book Awards: Bookstore, Small Press Shortlists: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- The UK’s IPG Opens Registration for its International Publishing Forum: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Cundill History Prize Names Michael Ignatieff To Lead Jury: @Porter_Anderson @M_Ignatieff @CundillPrize
- 13 Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Book Fair: @inkbitspixels @FloridaWriters1
- Audio Publishers Association Names the 2021 Audie Awards Finalists: @Porter_Anderson @audiobooks @pubperspectives
- Publishing’s Specialized Digital Events: Piling Up Higher and ‘Heyer’: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Writer Rhiannon Gelston on How a Creative Life Informs Her Writing:
- 5 Creative Ways to Help You Get Writing: @LiveWriteThrive
- The Pleasures and Punishments of Reading Franz Kafka: by Joshua Cohen @parisreview
- Nine Great Science Fiction Thrillers: @_NickPetrie_ @CrimeReads
- Top 10 most dislikable characters in fiction: @louise_candlish @GuardianBooks
- 7 Literary Translators You Should Know: by J.R. Ramakrishnan @ElectricLit
- 27 Debuts to Look Forward To in the First Half of 2021: @vitcavage @ElectricLit
- Chekhov’s Three Sisters: Comedy, Tragedy, or Foreshadowing of the Bolshevik Revolution? @thejackewilson @lithub
- A Lifetime of Lessons in “Mrs. Dalloway”: by Jenny Offill @NewYorker
- Canadians in SF as Written by Non-Canadians: @jamesdnicoll @tordotcom
- Young Adult Mystery and Suspense to Read: @harddays_night @BooksThatThrill
- The Great Writer Who Never Wrote: @emmagarman @parisreview
- Nine Truths for Roleplayers Who Start Writing: by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants
- How to be a writer with young kids in the house: @pubcoach
- Getting to the truth about strong women and troubled teenhood – novelist, playwright, essayist, writing coach Martha Engber: @Roz_Morris @MarthaEngber
- Don’t start a new book. Finish the old one: @AlexSokoloff
- How Attached Are You To Your Characters? @CreativeScreen
- Manifestation Journal Ideas: @BrynDonovan
- An At-Home Writing Retreat: @aprildavila
- Scary Emotions: The 10 Most Potent Horror Movies About Grief, Mourning, and Loss: by Marcus Shorter @BDisgusting
- A Dark and Wicked Year: How Horror Saved 2020: @chadiscollins @DreadCentral
- Classic Mystery Novels That Wouldn’t be Filed Under “Mystery Fiction”: @WritesHeather @BooksThatThrill
- Crime Writing: The Effects of Death on a Body: @LeeLofland
- ‘Funny, How?’ Why Comedy is Crucial in Crime Writing: @Peculiar @CrimeReads
- Crime Writing: Criminology v. Criminalistics: @JChaseNovelist
- Cozy Mysteries Aren’t Going Anywhere. In Fact, They’re as Popular as Ever. @oliviablacke @CrimeReads
- Rio de Janeiro: Brazil’s Great City of Crime Literature: @chinarhyming @CrimeReads
- A Selection Of Creative Screenwriting Magazine Interviews With TV Screenwriters: @CreativeScreen
- Screenwriting: Mean Girls: @CockeyedCaravan
- Great Scene: “The Shawshank Redemption” : @GoIntoTheStory
- Screenwriting: Do I need to move to L.A.? @GoIntoTheStory
- How to Structure Story for a TV Drama Series: @YVONNEGRACE1
- Screenwriting: Believe, Care, Invest: Spider-Man @CockeyedCaravan
- How to Boost Your Backlist Sales: @dkparsonswriter @SelfPubForm
- Best Book Promo Sites [2021 Edition]: @DavidGaughran
- Springer Nature: A White Paper on Researchers and Gold Open Access: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- 5 Great Podcasts for Writers: @youfirstwriter
- Rooting out racism in children’s books: by Lindsay Pérez Huber @ConversationUS
- Everything published in “the greatest year for books ever” is now in the public domain: @knownemily @lithub
- China Bestsellers in January: ‘Autobiographical Fiction’ Sparks Debate: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Georgian Publishers and PEN Center Protest Nika Melia’s Arrest: @Porter_Anderson @GPBAOFFICIAL @IntPublishers
- Denmark’s Lindhardt & Ringhof Reports ‘Vast Growth in Revenue’ in 2020: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- German Ministry Funds Knowledge Unlatched Open Access Project with Von Humboldt Institute: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Denmark’s Saga Egmont Acquires Mexico’s Cuántica Activa Audiolibros: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Five Musts for Writing a Compelling Story Beginning: @KimberlyNLozano @DIYMFA
- How To Write An Epic First Line: @MiaJouBotha @Writers_Write
- Writers on Characters. Quotes from professional writers: @GoIntoTheStory
- Make Your Character Want Something: @kathycowley
- Create an External Journey for Your Character – Katherine Cowley @kathycowley
- Seven Common Reasons Protagonists Are Unlikable: by by Chris Winkle @mythcreants
- Do I Have to Kill One of My Protagonists? by Chris Winkle @mythcreants
- Getting Passive Protagonists to Act: @SeptCFawkes
- Analyzing “Gone Girl” – Middle Build Two: @TheWritership @StoryGrid
- The Best Crime Shows of the Decade: @DwyerMurphy @CrimeReads
- Building Arrakis: How Herbert Sabotaged His Own Ideas: by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants
- The Annotation Project: The Hobbit: @CockeyedCaravan
- The Many Worlds of Dungeons & Dragons (Fifth Edition, that is) : by Andrew Zimmerman Jones
- “My Little Pony Taught Me To Write Fluffy, Glittery Violence”: @seananmcguire @tordotcom
Good list this week.
Thanks, Alex! Lots of good material out there right now.
As always, Elizabeth, a really helpful selection of links! I found myself interested in the one about learning from film and TV characters and plots. Print and visual media are really different, of course, but it really can help to see how characters and situations are handled on-screen. I think it can add an immediacy and a sense of imagery to one’s writing.
Excellent point, Margot! I love reading articles about screenwriting and learn a lot from them.