by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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- Inspiring, Encouraging, Connecting: Building a Podcast Community: by Liz Keller Whitehurst @TheIWSG
- 8 Tips for Starting a Writing Business Off on the Right Foot:
- How to Train a Virtual Assistant: @dkparsonswriter @SelfPubForm
- Self-publishing News: Publishers Criticize EU’s Watered Down Attack on Piracy: @agnieszkasshoes @IndieAuthorALLI
- On Alarming “Copyleft” Practices
- International Day of Education: Springer Nature Opens 17th SDG Portal: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- UNESCO on Education Day 2022: ‘We Must Rethink Education’: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- The UK’s Sunday Times Young Writer Award Names Its 2021 Shortlist: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Frankfurter Buchmesse: Upgraded Cancellation Terms for 2022: @Porter_Anderson @Book_Fair @pubperspectives
- Based in Spain, Desperate Literature Prize Opens Its 2022 Program: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- ‘Canada Reads’ Announces its 2022 Books and Their ‘Champions’: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- AAP Names Its 2022 PROSE Awards Finalists and Category Winners: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- 7 Novels and Stories That Prove Fiction Can Grapple with Illness: @wynterkm @ElectricLit
- From Paradise Lost to the Lord of the Rings: top 10 epics in fiction: @snsyquia @GuardianBooks
- Why 1 Writer is Reading Instead of Writing Right Now: @DavidCorbett_CA @WriterUnboxed
- Five Time Travel Stories Where Things Get Rather Messy: @jamesdnicoll @tordotcom
- In The Mystery Spotlight: Tess Makovesky’s Gravy Train: @MargotKinberg
- 7 Magically Mysterious Adventure Series for Middle-Grade Readers: by Chelsea Ciccone @BookTrib
- How to Juggle Multiple Tasks: @WriteNowCoach
- 01/23/2022 18:05,”Older Women Writing / Writing Older Women: by Juliet Marillier @WriterUnboxed
- The Art of Writing During Tumultuous Times: by D. A. Mucci @NaNoWriMo
- Empathy and Trauma and Self-Editing: @FionaQuinnBooks
- How to Finish Writing Your Book…Finally: @seejavaciawrite
- How to start writing your novel and stay motivated: @cbcreative
- 7 of the Best Writing Residencies in Florida: @vmblakeslee @ElectricLit
- Writing and the Creative Life: Why Creative People May Feel More Anxiety: @GoIntoTheStory
- The Things They Don’t Tell You About Writing: by Lucie Ataya @KiingoCreative
- How Useful Are Dave Lerner’s Eight Rules of Writing? @mythcreants
- How Long Does it Take to Write a Book? @DaveChesson
- Write Like No One is Reading: by Liam Cross @TheRyanLanz
- From Fiction to Creative Nonfiction: by Gigi Collins @GoodStoryCo
- Avoid the Comparison Trap: @AndreaMerrell
- How to Take Criticism and Turn It into Growth in 5 Steps: by Daniella Levy @TheRyanLanz
- “Writing Advice For My Younger Self”: @helpfulsnowman @LitReactor
- Danger Zones: The Transgressive Nature of Horror: @BrianDKeiper @BDisgusting
- Should Horror Protagonists Be Genre Savvy? by Emily Martin @BookRiot
- Class in Crime Fiction: A Roundtable Discussion: @RealLiveCritic @CrimeReads
- Investigators in Crime Fiction: Passing the Torch to a Younger Generation: @MargotKinberg
- An Appreciation of Genre-Breaking Mysteries: @NMamatas @CrimeReads
- How Should I Handle Languages in My Sci-Fi Setting? by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants
- Teleportation in Science Fiction: @CEBwrites @DanKoboldt
- Video: “How I Wrote ‘Arrival’”: @HIGHzurrer @GoIntoTheStory
- The Expanded Ultimate Story Checklist: Does the hero have a default personality trait? @CockeyedCaravan
- Aristotle and Three Act Structure: @GoIntoTheStory
- How to Deliver the Lead Magnet for Your Upcoming Interview: by Patricia Durgin @A3writers
- 5 Steps to Rethink Your Marketing Mindset: by Sue Campbell @DIYMFA
- 2022 Publishing Predictions from Literary Agent Laurie McLean: @agentsavant @FuseLiterary @annerallen
- 45 International lit mags seeking submissions of poetry, prose, and art: @trishhopkinson
- Open Road’s New CEO on 2021: ‘We Found Ways To Grow’: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Academic Publishing Edition: Wiley’s Jay Flynn on ‘Science Literacy’: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Academic Publishing Edition: Amsterdam’s Michiel Kolman on Diversity in STM: @Porter_Anderson @michielams @pubperspectives
- Poland’s Authors May Benefit From Pensions, Insurance, Other Benefits: @JaroslawAdamows @pubperspectives
- Cautious Optimism: The UK’s Copyright Exhaustion Decision For Now: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Germany’s Zebralution Backs a New IPG Audio Award in the UK: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Springer Nature Strikes Open Access Deal With Egyptian Knowledge Bank: @Porter_Anderson @SpringerNature @pubperspectives
- First Page Critique: Dinner with a Celebrity: @burke_writer @killzoneauthors
- What’s the Best Way to Create an Opening Hook? by Chris Winkle @mythcreants
- Hooking the Reader with a Killer Opening to Your Book: @HelenaFairfax @TheRyanLanz
- The Trouble with Character Flaws: @GoIntoTheStory
- Developing Characters with the Sibling Hierarchy: by Tara A. Lake @KiingoCreative
- What is a Flat Character? Definition, Examples & More: @themaltesetiger
- Reasons Why We Shouldn’t Use Film as an Example for Our Writing: @ReavisZWortham @killzoneauthors
- Top 5 Mistakes Writers Make With Plotting (According To A Script Reader): by Allan @Bang2write
- Reader Question: When is the best time to reveal a character’s backstory? @GoIntoTheStory
- Your Character’s Backstory: @EldredBird
- Script Analysis: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood ”Scene-By-Scene Breakdown: @GoIntoTheStory
- Does the hero start out with a shortsighted or wrongheaded philosophy (or accept a bad piece of advice early on)? @CockeyedCaravan
- Page One: Atonement (2007): @GoIntoTheStory
- Great Scene: To Kill A Mockingbird: @GoIntoTheStory
- How Five Seconds in Toy Story Changed Animation Forever: by Dan Persons @tordotcom
- Great Scene: Thelma & Louise: @GoIntoTheStory
- Build mysteries around whether characters will succeed or fail: @NathanBransford
- The Three Acts: Act 2, Part 2: @Virgilante @StoryEmpire
- What Are Pinch Points and Where Do They Go? @SueColetta1 @onestop4writers
- Writing Shooting Scenes: How Hollow are Your Points? @LeeLofland
- Writing Horses: Saddles 101: @dancinghorse @tordotcom
- Compression: How to Wrangle the Big Story: @dionoreilly @trishhopkinson
- Surgery for the Manuscript: @authorterryo @killzoneauthors
- How To Edit Like A Pro: by Susanne Bennett @Writers_Write
- How to Use the Environment of a Novel to Enhance Suspense: @Writer_Alice @CrimeReads
- Writing Setting or Setting Goals: @Lynne_Griffin @WriterUnboxed
- Giving Life to Your Setting: by Jan Drexler @SKRViLL
- Alchemy of Place: How to Create Tension through Your Story’s Setting and Atmosphere: @writeabook
- Tools of the Trade to Supercharge Your Writing: by Lisa Norman
- Interesting tool writers might find helpful for research and more.
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First one on the list – thanks for featuring the IWSG’s podcast post. That was certainly not a topic I’d seen discussed often.
I hadn’t, either! A great post. :)
Thanks for the great list, Elizabeth.
Hope you have a happy week, Joan!
Wouldn’t you know it, Elizabeth? The very first of these great links is the one that caught my attention. I keep thinking about doing a podcast. In fact, I was thinking about it yesterday and wondering what my topic would be, etc… One of these days I’ll dip my toe in; I just need to work out a solid, tight show idea with good content. Thanks for the nudge.
I really hope you’ll do one, Margot! You have the perfect background for it!
Thank you, Elizabeth. As always, an amazing list of helpful information.
Thanks to you for coming by!
Great stuff this week.
Thanks, CS!
Thanks for another awesome round of links and including posts from Story Empire as well!
Thanks to Story Empire for being a resource for writers!
Thank you for sharing the link to my post, Elizabeth.
Great post, John!
Thank you, Elizabeth, for these fabulous writing links, and for including Story Empire!
Great links from Story Empire!
Thanks for sharing all these great links :)
Thanks for coming by, D.L!
Another fine list. Thanks, Elizabeth.
Thanks to you for coming by, Beem!