by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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Happy holidays, everyone! This is the last post for 2021. I’ll be back Jan. 2 for another Twitterific post. :)
- Where Have all the Editors Gone? @BookEndsJessica @bookendslit
- Updates to Amazon and Goodreads That May Impact You: @Bookgal
- Sensitivity Reading as a Business: by Kathy L. Brown @hopeclark
- Three Steps to Prioritizing Your Writing Instruction During the Pandemic: @BethMooreSchool
- Wealth and Social Status Offer No Protection From Being Suspects in Crime Fiction: @MargotKinberg
- Middle Grade Fiction for Processing Serious Issues: @EmilyBarthIsler @CrimeReads
- Brutal, Terrifying, and Unclassifiable: Beyond the Literary/Horror Divide: @jhmattson @CrimeReads
- Societal Expectations as an Element in Crime Fiction: @MargotKinberg
- Anti-Doorstoppers: Ten Great SFF Novellas and Novelettes: @QueenOfRats @tordotcom
- 18 new books to get you excited about reading again: @prepartynap @lithub
- That Gothic Feeling: 11 Masterpieces of Romantic Suspense: by Greg Herren @CrimeReads
- Five Great Mystery Novels Set at Carnivals and Fairs: @MickiBrowning @CrimeReads
- Five Dark Historical Gothics to Savor: @h_kybettsmith @tordotcom
- Five Stories in Which Changing the Laws of Physics Leads to Bigger Problems: @jamesdnicoll @tordotcom
- How to be a more productive writer: @pubcoach
- Daily Writing Routines: 9 Inspirational Techniques from 21 Famous Authors: by Alex Simmonds @ProWritingAid
- Reasons Not to be an Author: by Brenda Wilson @KiingoCreative
- Why You Can’t Stop Thinking About “Bad Art Friend”: @FoxPrintEd @WriterUnboxed
- Moviegoing During a Pandemic: by Leah Schnelbach, Christina Orlando and Emmet Asher-Perrin @tordotcom
- Five Ways to Know You Are Doing Good Work on Each Writing Session: @HowellWave @StoryEmpire
- Tips for Collaborations With Other Writers: @LindaGilden @EdieMelson
- An Educator on the Problem of Book Banning: @MargotKinberg
- Finding Work-Life Balance as a Full-Time Author: @HelenaHunting @DIYMFA
- Somebody finally fixed the ending of “The Giving Tree”: @knownemily @lithub
- Writing Rituals To Try When You Can’t Get Started: @MorganHzlwood
- Tackle That Ambitious Dream Project Now: @KelseyAllagood @WriterUnboxed
- 5 Tips for Finding the Kind Genius Writer in Your Mad Genius Writer: by Brian Leung @DIYMFA
- Secrets to life-long creativity from writers who lasted: by Elizabeth Fishel @TheWriterMag
- 2021 Gift Guide For Authors: @StuartConover @HorrorTree
- The CrimeReads 2021 Holiday Gift Guide: @oldrutigliano @CrimeReads
- How Do I Make My Story’s Elemental Powers Feel Natural? by Chris Winkle @mythcreants
- Six Magic Powers That Writers Had to Ignore: by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants
- The Hybrid of Fantasy and Horror: by Cameron Scott Kirk @MandSMagazine
- What Horror Writers Can Learn from Horror Films: by B.A. Kockaya @HorrorTree
- 8 Scintillating Rules for Writing Romances: by Dana Isaacson @CareerAuthors
- Writing (Un)Awkward Romantic Scenes: @sarazalesky @TheRyanLanz
- Screenwriting: Imagery for Marketing of the Project: @CockeyedCaravan
- Movies Have Always Been ‘Woke’. You Just Didn’t Notice: @Bang2write
- 6 Ways to Supplement Your Blog-a-Book Content: @BirdsOAFpress @NinaAmir
- Blogging tips for editors and authors: Podcast: With Carol Saller: @LouiseHarnby
- Checklist for Entering Contests: by Pam Hillman/Jan Drexler @SKRViLL
- Richard Charkin’s ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’: @rcharkin @pubperspectives
- European Booksellers, Publishers, Printers Warn : ‘No Christmas Without Books’: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Croatian Publisher Fraktura and Its Bookshop: ‘To Present Quality Books’: @oliviasnaije @pubperspectives
- CONTEC Mexico: Pandemic Spurs Children’s Reading and New Themes: by Adam Critchley @pubperspectives
- Nicaragua’s Sergio Ramírez on Leaving Latin America : ‘A Personal Choice’: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- IPA Prix Voltaire Laureate Pham Doan Trang Sentenced to Nine Years: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- IPA’s Bodour Al Qasimi’s Focus on Publishing Solidarity and Freedom to Publish: @Porter_Anderson @Bodour @IntPublishers @pubperspectives
- Year’s End: European Writers’ Council Follows Up on COVID’s Impact: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- China Bestsellers: A Tall ‘Dune’ Appears on November’s Charts: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- ‘Spain’s Women in Publishing: A Major Role in Defining Literary Trends’: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Scotland Opens ‘A Year of Stories,’ Publishing Scotland Aligns Its Programming: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @PublishScotland
- Rights Roundup: Giving Credit Where It’s Due: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Rights Edition: Translated Titles in China, First Half of 2021: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Why the First Line of Your Story Isn’t Important Only for Your Readers: @Peter_Rey_
- First Page Critique: Innocent to a Fault: by Clare Langley-Hawthorne @killzoneauthors
- Why Your Protagonist Must Face a Crossroad: @thenovelsmithy
- Why No One Likes Your Character And What To Do About It: by Brenda Wilson @KiingoCreative
- 5 Indie Author Mistakes That Can Tank Book Sales: @sugarbeatbc @annerallen
- Common Mistakes that Pull Readers Out of Stories:
- Fight Scenes: Deep Cover How to Write the Good Fight: @KristenLambTX
- How to Craft Conflict in Your Novel: @beccapuglisi @sacha_black
- Page One: “The Truth About Cats and Dogs” (1996): by Audrey Wells @GoIntoTheStory
- Page One: “Twilight” (2008): @GoIntoTheStory
- Page One: “The Way Way Back” (2013): @GoIntoTheStory
- How Far is Too Far? How Narrative Distance Affects Telling: @Janice_Hardy
- How to make your novel un-put-down-able: @NathanBransford
- How to create a plot and guarantee a better story: @nownovel
- How to Write High Agency Characters: @PSHoffmanAuthor
- Writing Consent in YA: Empowerment Through Storytelling: @alittlelocavore @CrimeReads
- How to Write a Meaningful Death for Your Hero: by Joy Caroline Woodbury @KingdomPenMag
- Sentence Fragments in Our Writing: by Dayna Betz @A3writers
- To Comma, or Not to Comma: @LoriAnnFreeland
- The Comma Dilemma: by Peggy Sias Lantz @FloridaWriters1
- Grammar Girl Tackles “Dos and Dont’s”: @GrammarGirl
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Thanks for including the IWSG post. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you, Alex!
Thanks for another terrific list of links, Elizabeth. Happy Holidays!
Thanks, Joan! The same to you. :)
Thank you, Elizabeth, for another great list. Very helpful, as always. 😊
Thanks so much for coming by, Gwen!
Thanks for doing these posts! Love reading through them on Sunday afternoons. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Merry Christmas to you and yours, Rose!
Have a wonderful holiday, Elizabeth! And thanks very much for the links; they’re always useful. The one I especially noticed this time was the one about collaboration. I love it when writers work together and help each other. It’s not a zero-sum game!
There are lots of good tips for collaboration out there!
Thank you for all the great links :)
Thanks to you for coming by, D.L.!
Another excellent listing of resources, Elizabeth! Thank you for including Story Empire posts!
Thanks to Story Empire for the great articles!
Thank you for the links Elizabeth and a special thanks for my Story Empire post link. 😁
Thanks for sharing these resources, Elizabeth. Happy holidays 🎄💕🙂
Happy holidays to you, Harmony!
Thanks so much, Elizabeth.
Thanks for coming by, Staci!