by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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Tweets for July 4–July 10:
- “Reasons Authors Don’t Submit Their Work—And My Responses”: @richardgthomas3 @LitReactor
- Publishing Wide: Alternative Book Sales Outlets For Authors: @IndieAuthorALLI
- Do I Need Sample Edits for my Book? Other Questions Answered: @MichaelLaRonn @OrnaRoss @IndieAuthorALLI
- What Is Developmental Editing? @BrynDonovan
- The Non-Writing Part of Writing: by Dave King @WriterUnboxed
- 4 Practical Ways to Get Your Freelance Business Noticed: @RobynRoste
- The Three P’s of Successful Self-Publishing: @kristen_kieffer
- Get Noticed by Influencers on Twitter Using Lists: @RobynRoste
- Self-publishing News: Twitter Facets – pseudonyms for social media? @agnieszkasshoes @IndieAuthorALLI
- The EU Copyright Directive, and Where Are the Young Indie Authors? Self-Publishing News Podcast with Dan Holloway and Howard Lovy: @agnieszkasshoes @Howard_Lovy @IndieAuthorALLI
- Inspirational Indie Author Interview. Alessandra Torre: @ReadAlessandra @AuthorsAi @Howard_Lovy @IndieAuthorALLI
- Podcast Episode Covering the Business of Writing and Publishing with Entrepreneur Jane Friedman: @joannetombrakos @JaneFriedman
- Frankfurt Confirms Physical Fair, 60 Nations Among Registered Exhibitors: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Mexico’s Guadalajara Is Guest City at Liber 2021 in Madrid: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- English PEN Names a New Round of ‘PEN Translates’ Award Grants: @Porter_Anderson @englishpen @official_foz @RosSchwartz @pubperspectives
- Author Guy Kennaway Wins the 2021 Bollinger Prize: @Porter_Anderson @guyken @BollingerUK @pubperspectives
- Writing prompt ideas: 10 ideas from top authors: @nownovel
- 5 Creativity Exercises to Fire up Your Writing Muse: by LA Bourgeois @DIYMFA
- 6 Fantastic Adventures Filled With Magic, Murder and Mayhem: @BookTrib
- Symbolic, or Carefully-Chosen Weapons, in Crime Fiction: @MargotKinberg
- These are the 5 (er, 10?) best parentheses in literature: @knownemily @lithub
- Why Can’t We Be (Just) Friends? — Platonic Love in SFF: @jsdewes @tordotcom
- Ten Eco-Fiction Novels Worth Celebrating: by Nina Munteanu @tordotcom
- 25+ Book Review Templates and Ideas to Organize Your Thoughts: @DanikaEllis @BookRiot
- Want to improve your writing productivity? @pubcoach
- 5 Tips for Fast Drafting: @AuthorJ_Elle @NaNoWriMo
- Why it’s important not to overwork: @pubcoach
- Is Conspiracy Fiction Harmful? by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants
- Five Books To Optimize Workflow And Avoid Burnout: @ajthenovelist @LitReactor
- When You Don’t Write As Much As You Should: @AuthorSAT
- Why You Didn’t Finish Your Novel During COVID: @helpfulsnowman @LitReactor
- Crime Fiction: Bystanders as Witnesses: @MargotKinberg
- How to Outline Your Crime Novel: Modifying the Hero’s Journey: @ZaraAltair @ProWritingAid
- Local Tales and Stories as an Element of Crime Fiction: @MargotKinberg
- Why Librarians Are Natural Born Detectives: by M.E. Hilliard @CrimeReads
- Planting Clues: Red Herrings That Fool but Don’t Frustrate Your Readers: @kcalvinaap @WritersDigest
- Screenwriting Skills and Traits You Need: Passion: @GoIntoTheStory
- Screenwriting Skills and Traits You Need: Courage: @GoIntoTheStory
- Screenwriting Skills and Traits You Need: Flexibility: @GoIntoTheStory
- Page One: “The Greatest Showman” (2017): @GoIntoTheStory
- Don’t Fear the Short Story: @JoshuaIsard @LitReactor
- How to Win Short Story Contests: Insights from A Writing Competition Judge: @RayneHall
- Publishers take note – Big Bad Wolf virtual sale under way in Philippines, a country with more people online than Germany or UK: @thenewpubstd
- Book Proposal Tips: New and Favorites: @LisaTener
- Summer Political Books: Bill Barr and Reviewing the Trump Years: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Richard Charkin: An Age of Aquarius: @rcharkin @pubperspectives
- South Korean and Italian Publishers Hold a Bilateral Rights Exchange: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Publishing Scotland’s BookSource To Handle MMS Distribution: @Porter_Anderson @PublishScotland @pubperspectives
- Germany’s Book Market : ‘A Tense Situation,’ the Börsenverein Reports: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Rights Roundup: Becoming Conscious of Consciousness: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- How to Write a Genre Story: Character Introduction: Empathy: @woodwardkaren
- Oops, I Did it Again: How Regrets Reveal and Forge Character: @KAMcCleary @WriterUnboxed
- Stephen King’s “On Writing” On Rejection and Why He Wrote a Book for Writers: @GoIntoTheStory
- Page One: “The Grapes of Wrath” (1940): @GoIntoTheStory
- Dissecting the “Firekeeper’s Daughter”: @NatalieAHart @WriterUnboxed
- Tips for Figuring Out if You Have Too Many POV Characters: from Fix Your Writing Habits
- The Lingo of Storytelling: by Jan Drexler @SKRViLL
- Should Your Book Have a Prologue? by Dana Isaacson @CareerAuthors
- Writing Styles: Extroversion and Introversion: @gmplano @StoryEmpire
- 3 Secrets to Great Storytelling: by Steven James @WritersDigest
- When Everything Changes – Capturing Profound Character Moments: @JohnJKelley @WriterUnboxed
- On Nailing Your Novel, Finding Blind Spots and Artistic Integrity: @Roz_Morris @CarlyKadeAuthor
- 4 Non-Romantic Relationships You Need In Your Story: by Allison Grace @KingdomPenMag
Tweets for the week of July 11-17:
- Book Copyright Page Examples For Your eBook: @DaveChesson
- The Writing Business: All The Other Stuff: by Erica Vetsch @SKRViLL
- Bare Bones Publishing for Beginner Indie Authors: @sacha_black @OrnaRoss @IndieAuthorALLI
- The Ultimate Guide to Networking for Indie Authors: @IndieAuthorALLI
- 3 Things You Didn’t Know About Ebook Retailer Rankings: @RicardoFayet @BookBub
- Self-publishing News: A new tool for effective covers: @agnieszkasshoes @IndieAuthorALLI
- 10 Ways Writers Can Use LinkedIn to Find Freelance Gigs: @TiceWrites
- In-Person, Online: Edinburgh International Book Festival’s Business of Books: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Sri Lanka’s Kanya D’Almeida Wins the 2021 Commonwealth Prize: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- London’s International Booker Prize Names Its 2022 Jurors: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- What It’s Like to be a Virtual Guest at a Physical Location: @apexmag @apexjason
- Struan Murray, Ben Horslen Win the UK’s Branford Boase Award: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- 7 Books Detailing Key Turning Points in History: by Judy Moreno @BookTrib
- 5 Science Fiction Books Featuring Floating Habitats: @jamesdnicoll @tordotcom
- “Why We’re Hooked on YA Apocalyptic Thrillers”: by Kendra Griffin @MandSMagazine
- “What Speculative Fiction and Possible Worlds Theory Taught Me about Grief”: by Gretchen Busl @tordotcom
- Crime Fiction: Sleuths Who Are Haunted by Former Cases: @MargotKinberg
- 3 Writerly Traps To Avoid: @10minnovelist
- Writing With a Full Time Job: @LindseyReneeR @TheRyanLanz
- “In Praise of ‘Murder, She Wrote,’ My Pandemic Lullaby”: by Hannah Berger
- Working Ahead by C.S. Boyack @StoryEmpire
- Stephen King’s “On Writing”: Write What Excites You: @GoIntoTheStory
- How do you know you need a new morning routine? @be_writ
- 10 Tips for Becoming the Writer You Wish to Be: @WritersCoach
- 8 Stages in the Life Cycle of a Writer: From the Aha! Moment to Beyond the Grave: @RuthHarrisBooks @annerallen
- How to avoid the willpower trap: @beprolifiko
- Create Your Own Virtual Writers Sabbatical: @Richelle_Lyn_ @DIYMFA
- Preserving Your Creativity with Self-Care: by McKenzie Cassidy @FloridaWriters1
- Podcast: Writing Spontaneously (with Lee Child): @BookTrib
- Business Musings: Grief And The Writer: @KristineRusch
- On Rediscovering Spontaneous Touch Through Writing: @LauraHankin @lithub
- Crime Fiction: When Good Can be Salvaged from Sorrow: @MargotKinberg
- Crime Fiction: Handling Major Historical Events: @MargotKinberg
- The 10 Greatest Movies Adapted from Crime Novels—According to a Producer and Novelist: by Michael Brandman @CrimeReads
- Screenwriting Skills and Traits You Need: Persistence: @GoIntoTheStory
- Turn your screenplay into a novel: @AlexSokoloff
- Welbeck Preps England Football History as HarperCollins Expands Archer Rights: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Offices: Penguin Random House USA Sets September 13 to Start Reopening: @Porter_Anderson @penguinrandom @pubperspectives
- Saqi Books in London Hit by Monday’s Flash Flooding: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Richard Charkin’s Big Week: The Benefits of Broken Pledges: @rcharkin @pubperspectives
- Scholastic Signs Multi-Book Deal with Colin Kaepernick: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- NPD BookScan: US June Print Book Sales Up 2.8 Million Over 2020: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Italy’s Publishers Report 44-Percent Unit Growth, First Half of 2021: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- The European and International Booksellers Federation Report on 2020: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Audiobooks: Denmark’s Saga Egmont Partners With Spain’s Roca Editorial: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- German Independents: Klett-Cotta’s Tom Kraushaar and ‘Publisher Days’: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- All resume, no writing: @Janet_Reid
- On Pitch Parties: @JocelynRish @scbwi
- What If It Takes 12 Years to Get an Agent? @CatBaabMuguira @JaneFriedman
- Your Story’s Introduction: @Weifarer @SchmidtJesper
- WIP Diagnostic: Is This Working? A Closer Look at Piquing Reader Curiosity on Page One: by Maria D’Marco
- Engage the reader with the story (page critique): @NathanBransford
- Debunking 6 Myths about Steadfast, Flat-arc Characters: @SeptCFawkes
- Writing a Journal from your Character’s Perspective: @NeelyKneely3628 @EdieMelson
- The inner life of characters in stories: @SHalvatzis
- How to Write Emotion Well: Know Your Character: @AngelaAckerman
- Showing Emotion: When, Why and How: by Laurie Schnebly Campbell
- 7 and 1/2 Lesser-Known Mistakes Indie Authors Make (Podcast): @writingcookbook
- Writing Mistakes Writers Make: Refraining from Revising Writing: @robertleebrewer @WritersDigest
- Page One: “Grosse Pointe Blank” (1997): @GoIntoTheStory
- Page One: “Halloween” (1978): @GoIntoTheStory
- Ten Horror Movies That Will Make You Permanently Suspicious of the Great Outdoors: @JAGeorgeII @tordotcom
- How Not to Quit and More Lessons from Walt Disney: @createastorylov
- The Revenge Novel and the Art of Getting Even: @JoshilynJackson
- Character Details to Hide from Your Readers: from Fiction Writing Tips
- Using Pop Culture References in Fiction: @jamesscottbell @killzoneauthors
- Catch Readers With The Unexpected: @jessicastrawser @CareerAuthors
- How Can I Depict a Character Adjusting to a New Disability Respectfully? by Fay Onyx @mythcreants
- How To Write About Bullies: @officialajc @Writers_Write
- What is Suspense? Why and How It Makes Better Books: by Joslyn Chase @write_practice
- 4 Tips for Creating a Memorable Mentor and Hero Bond: by Chelsea Hindle @KingdomPenMag
- 4 Tips for Writing about Family Grudges: @smariedowning @WritersDigest
- How to use factual feedback wisely in your story (and not go mad when your plot falls apart): @Roz_Morris
- Questions To Ask Your Beta Reader: @KMAllan_writer
- 7 Tips on Describing Surroundings in Your Novel: @LeonCollier12 @A3writers
- Clothes Make The Character: @MiaJouBotha @Writers_Write
Double the links!
Go Into The Story – need to follow those guys.
That’s a great blog for both screenwriters and novelists!
Great to see you back, Elizabeth! I hope you enjoyed your break. These are, as always, really interesting links. For some reason, the link about writing what excites you caught my attention. To me, there’s always a real balance between writing what we’re excited about, and writing what readers want. Sometimes, it’s the same thing – those are the best times. But when it’s not, it’s hard to get that balance right. I think that’s one reason I really admire prolific authors who write exactly what they want to write with some of their work, and write what their readers expect, too.
I really respect those authors, too! Hope you have a great week, Margot!
Thank you, Elizabeth, for your kind mention of my post. I always appreciate receiving your links as I learn so much. Warmest regards!
My pleasure, Gwen! Nice post. :)
Great list, Elizabeth :)
Thanks, D.L!
Thanks for including me, and for keeping an eye on Story Empire.
A great blog, CS!
Thank you for sharing the Story Empire posts, Elizabeth!
Thanks to Story Empire for being a resource for writers!