by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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- Top 7 Places to Find People to Write Great Blurbs: @colleen_m_story
- How Should Creative Writing Programs Talk about the Business of Publishing? @TheLincoln
- How to Grow Your Audience Using Online Workshops: @PatriciaDurgin @A3writers
- How to Work with your Publicist, BookBub, Author Publicity, or PR/Marketing: @AnnMarieNieves @WriterUnboxed
- Writing Book Proposals: @Lindasclare
- International Students Named to Sonny Mehta Fellowships: East Anglia and Iowa: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Sasha Marianna Salzmann To Speak at the German Trade Peace Prize Ceremony: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- The UK’s Society of Authors Adds a New Disability-Focused Book Award: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Madrid’s Isabel la Católica Institute Named Liber 22 Award Winner: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- No Tense Like the Present: Novels That Embrace the Immediate: by Anna Dorn @lithub
- Ten Expansive SFF Worlds to Fall Into: by Stubby the Rocket @tordotcom
- What Draws Us to Certain Classic Texts Over Others? @lithub
- 5 Books About Fragile Worlds: @erintheswan @tordotcom
- 5 Cozy Mystery Series for DIY-ers and Fans of HGTV Shows: @fapolito @CrimeReads
- Five SF Stories About Strangers Bearing Gifts: @jamesdnicoll @tordotcom
- In Defense of Polonius: @DrJeffreyWilson @JSTOR_Daily
- Crime Fiction: In The Spotlight: Pablo De Santis’ The Paris Enigma: @MargotKinberg
- Fear Not if Your Novel is Really a Short Story: by D.Z. Stone @WomenWriters
- Why I Make Rules for My Writing Students—And Why I Break Them: by Adam White @lithub
- Out of the Pandemic, A Writing Renaissance: @AmongTheZombies @LitReactor
- People Get Scared When You Break Rules: @BookEndsJessica @bookendslit
- 7 Ways to Fix (and Prevent) Writer Burnout: by
Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza @WrittenWordM - What do we most want as writers? @Roz_Morris
- When Is Your Book Ready to be Published? @jamesscottbell
- Three Small Steps to Get Your Writing Back on Track: @AmbreDLeffler @DIYMFA
- Sometimes You Have to Get Lost to Find What You Really Need to Write: @halpen @lithub
- What is Rhythmic Writing? @SueColetta1 @onestop4writers
- The 6 Challenges of Writing a Second Novel: @KMWeiland
- Finding Me: Towards Self-Actualization in Writing: @EugenBacon @sfwa
- How to Get Out of a Rut: 50 Ideas: @BrynDonovan
- Writing from Trauma: @cyallowitz
- One page diary exercises: @austinkleon
- Reasons Not to Rush the Writing: @AnneJanzer
- How to Get Out of Your Own Way and Write Consistently: @NinaAmir
- Black Women in Fantasy Saved Me Where Academia Failed: @RavynnKaMia @CatapultStory
- Writing a Murder Mystery? Here Are 5 Top Tips: @EmyliaHall @thenovelry
- Characters who move frequently as elements in crime fiction: @MargotKinberg
- Want to Write a Great Mystery? Read a Great Romance: @MindyRCarlson @CrimeReads
- Ideas for Promoting a Book with Hybrid Author Events: @Bookgal
- How 12 Authors Used New Releases for Less to Support A Book Launch: @CarlynAtBookBub @BookBub
- Penguin Random House-S&S Acquisition Case Goes to Court: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Penguin Random House’s Diversity Report, 2021: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Oxford University Press To Migrate Its Catalogue to Online Platform: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- NPD and IRI Have Announced a Merger in Data and Analysis: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- UAE’s Kalimat Foundation To Publish Under Marrakesh Treaty: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- 5,000 Books Distributed to Ukrainian Refugee Children in Italy: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Be specific about who is doing what and why (query critique): @NathanBransford
- 15 Ways to Increase Your Chances of Landing a Publishing Deal (by Query Letter): @SeptCFawkes
- Should Your Book Be Completed Before Querying? @bookendslit
- Writing a Compelling First Line: @ecellenb
- Things I Never Want To Read In An Opening Sentence So Please Stop: @helpfulsnowman @LitReactor
- Fear Thesaurus Entry: Humiliation: @beccapuglisi @onestop4writers
- How Great Characters Make Great Stories: @PSHoffmanAuthor
- The Importance of Writing Flawed Characters: by Neil Chase @SuzannahWindsor
- Characters, Cultures, and Groups: @PhilAthans
- How to Use the Enneagram to Create Fictional Characters: @AdkinsMary @DIYMFA
- Does My Hero Need a Specific Job? by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants
- The Protagonist’s Journey: Narrative Imperative: @GoIntoTheStory
- Page One: “Miles Ahead” (2015): @GoIntoTheStory
- Page One: “Million Dollar Baby” (2004): @GoIntoTheStory
- Five Stories That Test the Limits of Bodily Consciousness: @ColeRush1 @tordotcom
- Essential Fiction-Writing Tools of the Trade: @LiveWriteThrive
- What Writers Can Learn from Animal Communication: @SueColetta1 @killzoneauthors
- Understanding the Underworld of a Story’s Third Act: @KMWeiland
- Neurodivergent: Being ‘Different’ in Life & Fiction: @KristenLambTX
- What Gives Our Story Meaning? @JamiGold
- Travel Novels, Unreliable Narrators, & Forgotten History – with Scott Gates: @DIYMFA
- How to Use Prologues: Does Your Story Need a Prologue? @harmony_kent @StoryEmpire
- Successfully Write a Novel Without an Outline: by Grace A. Johnson @KingdomPenMag
- Storyville: The Intersection Between Plotting and Pantsing: @richardgthomas3 @LitReactor
- Tips For Rewriting A Finished Manuscript: @KMAllan_writer
- Improve Story Paragraphs by Addressing Echoes and Overused Words: @ZoeMMcCarthy
- 141 How to Write Active Settings: @MaryBuckham @sacha_black
- Imagery Speaks to Your Readers: @KarenCV
- Sensory Detail and Setting Exercise: @Aatif_Rashid @CatapultStory
- The Language of Setting: @LeslieBudewitz
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@AmongTheZombies – great Twitter handle.
Thanks for another batch of articles!
One of my favorites!
Hope you have a great week, Alex!
As always, Elizabeth, a great list of links, for which thanks. I’m glad there’s one about length of a story (‘Fear Not If Your Novel is a Short Story). That very thing happened to me with the novella I released earlier this year. Originally, I thought of it as a novel, but as the story went on, it really wasn’t a novel after all, but a novella. It was just so much better as a novella than it would’ve been as a novel and I don’t regret that change at all.
That’s cool that the story told you how long it needed to be!
Great list, Elizabeth! Thank you for sharing and for including one of my posts. Most appreciated! 🌞
Great post, Gwen!
Thanks for sharing all these great posts :)
Thanks for stopping by, D.L.!
Great work compiling this week’s list, Elizabeth. Thanks for the shout out as well.
Great article, Beem!
Thanks for another great weekly list!
Hope you have a happy week, Joan!
Thanks for the curated links.
Thanks to you for coming by.
Thanks for the useful links, Elizabeth.
Happy to share, John!
Thanks for all the links! A great resource. :-)
Thanks for coming by, Diana!
Thank you, Elizabeth, for continuing to share Story Empire posts!
Great posts from Story Empire!