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by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

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• 11 Essential Tips to Improve Writing Skills as Freelancer: by Breanne Rushing @MALWriting
• Titles and Comp Titles — How To Find the Best Ones For Your Book: @RuthHarrisBooks @killzoneauthors
• Freelancing: How And When To Provide A New Client Service: @ashleygainer
• 10 tips for working with an independent editor: @TheWriteEdit @TheWriterMag
• 8 Freelance Writing Job Boards to Find Great Writing Gigs (2021): @heideliloubser @smartbloggerhq
• Self-publishing News: Going Wide is Getting Wider: @agnieszkasshoes @IndieAuthorALLI
• How Do I Protect My Book From Pirates? @OrnaRoss @MichaelLaRonn @IndieAuthorALLI

• Asian-American Literature Advocate Shawn Wong Receives Stand Up Award: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• ‘Earthshot’ Prize Program Moves a Book Into Climate Crisis Channels: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• The UK’s Comedy Women in Print Prize Announces 2021 Longlists: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives

• 4 Sure-Fire Ways to Stimulate Creativity: @GoIntoTheStory

• 7 Books to Commemorate the Fall of Saigon: @aprilyee @ElectricLit
• Reading Outside of Your Lane: @todd_milo @WriterUnboxed
• A Cozy Mystery Writer’s Guide to The Pleasures of Domesticity: @liz2penney @CrimeReads
• A List of Fictional Murderers Hiding In Plain Sight: by Clare Whitfield @CrimeReads
• Five Series With A Great Sense of Place to Tide You Over Until We Can All Travel Again: @Rhysbowen @CrimeReads
• The 10 Creepiest Gothic Novels: @ManxWriter @The_Millions
• 8 Novels About Women That Are Set During the Second World War: @WeinaRandel @BookTrib

• Unblock Writers Block with “The Write-Out”: @macbird @CareerAuthors

• How to Write Faster: A Series on How to Finish a First Draft in 6 Weeks: @JDEdwinAuthor @write_practice

• How To Build Your Own MFA Experience: by Tasha Seegmiller
• The Danger of Self-Rejection (And Tricks on How to Battle it): @RoyalineSing
• Dear Black Woman Writer: @whattamisaid @WomenWriters
• Ingrid Rojas Contreras Thinks You Should Cultivate Your Weirdness: @ElectricLit
• “What Triathlons Taught Me About Writing”: @MiffieSeideman
• How to Create Consistent Content Even When You Don’t Feel Like It: @seejavaciawrite
• “My Newfound Love of Post-It Notes”: @FinishedPages @womenonwriting
• A Random Encounter Leads to Newsletter Happiness: @KathleenCStone @WomenWriters
• 4 Exercises for Writers Inspired by Physical Therapy: @khogrefeparnell @EdieMelson
• 5 Self-Portraits Famous Authors Doodled in Their Own Books: @shaunacysays @mental_floss
• Bring a Full Mind to the Empty Page: @AnneJanzer
• Is There Something You Need To Let Go Of? @StephMorrill @GoTeenWriters

• Sirens of the Sea: Horror’s History With Scary Mermaids: @HauntedMeg @BDisgusting
• Latinx Horror Author Roundtable: @cinapelayo @LitReactor

• Should You Write a Cozy Mystery?
• Crime Fiction: The Effect of Being on Trial for Murder: @MargotKinberg
• The Trend of Longer Mysteries: @MargotKinberg
• Mystery Author Does Whodunnits the Indie Way: @TheIndyAuthor @Howard_Lovy @IndieAuthorALLI
• Why Memory Is the Scariest Thing Of All in a Psychological Thriller Novel: by Carter Wilson @WritersDigest

• Screenwriting Skills and Traits You Need: Experience: @GoIntoTheStory
• The Business of Screenwriting: Everything You Wanted to Know About Specs: @GoIntoTheStory
• Screenwriting Skills and Traits You Need: Conviction: @GoIntoTheStory
• What are three good “how to” scripts to read? @GoIntoTheStory

• Building POV and Stakes in Short Stories: by Rachelle Shaw

• How to Choose Blog Posts For Your Readership: @AHuelsenbec @TheRyanLanz

• New Independent Writer Resource: Aggregating Reviews: @cleemckenzie @TheIWSG

• What Readers Want…and What They Don’t: @LexicalForge @CareerAuthors

• Engagement Rate and Your Author Platform: @EJWenstrom @DIYMFA

• Using Lists Within WordPress Reader: @MaeClair1 @StoryEmpire

• Publishing Office Reopenings: Sourcebooks Sets September 7: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @Sourcebooks
• Can I Add New Characters in a New Book? by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants
• Industry Notes: Peter Warwick Named Scholastic’s New CEO: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• ‘Immersive Media & Books’ Study: Audiobooks and Context: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• Political Releases and Guesses at Prince Harry Book Advance: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• How your Netflix habit is changing contemporary fiction: @XanderManshel @TheAtlantic
• Licensing News: ‘Ninja Life Hacks’ and Insight Editions: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• Penguin Random House: New Stories of Social Impact: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @penguinrandom

• AAP’s StatShot: US Publishing Up 11.1 Percent in May: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @AmericanPublish

• European Writers Council and PEN America Slam Belarus Raids: @Porter_Anderson @CouncilWriters @nina_george @PENamerica @pubperspectives
• Canada’s Access Copyright Foundation Announces Development Grants: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• A New Report Evaluates the Indian Publishing Industry’s Prospects: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• Lukashenko Regime Tells PEN Belarus That It’s To Be Closed: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• The UK’s BIC Program Opens Its New ‘Metadata Capabilities Directory’: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• Rights Roundup: A Monstrous 31 Rights Sales in Finland: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives

• 18 strategies for successful self-publishing: @Kerrie_Flanagan @TheWriterMag

• An Agent on Rejection: It’s Something Writers Can’t Fix: @Janet_Reid
• Querying a novel and short stories: @Janet_Reid
• Essentials to Elevate Your Pitch – Loglines & Comps: @ginapanettieri @CareerAuthors
• Sharpen your plot description (query critique): @NathanBransford

• 7 Ways Writers Handle Rejection: @MorganHzlwood

• “Mistakes I Made With My Self-Published Book Covers”: @helpfulsnowman @LitReactor

• Tips For Formatting Your Book: @jamesscottbell @killzoneauthors

• Tips For Translation, Self-Publishing, And Marketing In Foreign Languages: @NadineMutas @thecreativepenn

• How to create a villain: from Creative Writing Prompts

• Four Ways Your Characters Could Be Sabotaging Themselves (And How That’s Good for Your Story): @10minnovelist
• Archetypal Character Arcs: The Crone’s Shadow Archetypes: @KMWeiland

• What is an Unsympathetic Character? Must a Novel’s Protagonist be Likeable? @annerallen
• 5 Ways to Keep Your Protagonist Proactive: @Janice_Hardy

• How To Use Conversation As A Source Of Conflict In Fiction: @MiaJouBotha @Writers_Write

• Writing Effective Conversations: @Lindasclare

• How To Tell If You’ve Nailed Your Book Ending: @KMAllan_writer

• How to Work With Character Backstory: @Kid_Lit

• Page One: “Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban” (2004): @GoIntoTheStory
• Page One: “The Father” (2020): @GoIntoTheStory
• Page One: “Minari” (2020): @GoIntoTheStory

• How to Use Tone and Atmosphere to Craft an Unforgettable Story: by Jodi Clark @KingdomPenMag

• Pros and Cons of Using Present or Past Tense–What’s the Effect on Your Reader? @writeabook
• Serialization Storytelling: @johnpwriter
• Your Story Can Start After The Inciting Incident: @KiingoCreative
• What is an Unreliable Narrator? @JerryBJenkins
• Building the Inevitable: @DonMaass @WriterUnboxed
• Pulling Levers in the God Machine: @Spencimus
• On the Counterintuitive Appeal of the Literary Time Loop: @silveycat @lithub

• How to spell in a novel – wherever your characters are from: @LouiseHarnby
• Dashes vs Hyphens: Explanation and Examples: @ZaraAltair @ProWritingAid
• Em Dash: What It Is And How To Use It: @KrystalNCraiker @ProWritingAid

• 5 Reasons You’re Struggling with Your Revision (And How to Fix Them): @Janet_Reid
• Revise Your Screenplay or Novel Surgically with a Beat Sheet: @DonRoff @savethecat

• Scene Elements: The Scene’s Purpose: from Writes With Tools

• How to Shorten a MONSTER Long Sentence: @writingcookbook
• Negative Adjectives: Over 800 Examples You Can Use: @ZaraAltair @ProWritingAid

• The Responsibility of World-Building: @theladygreer @WriterUnboxed
• Use Societal Transitions for Your Story World: @KiingoCreative

• Using the Later App as an Author: A review: @AuthorSAT