by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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- What We Lose When We Gamify Reading: by Marissa Levien
- The Connection Between Reading and Hearing: by Debbie Burke
- Sick with Suspense: Six Thrillers That Feature Contagions and Pandemics: by Alice Martin
- Books are Just as Bad and as Good as They’ve Ever Been: @philathans.bsky.social
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- When Dark and Sensitive Content Is Worth It: by Chris Winkle
- When I Stopped Writing My Novel — and How I Found My Way Back: By En Hui Ye
- Let the messages emerge from characters and story – how journalist Alice Wright switched to novels: @rozmorris.bsky.social
- What Being a Professional Athlete Taught Me About Writing—and What It Didn’t: by James Hibbard
- Let Your Work Reflect a Little Joy: by James R. Preston
- On Harsh Feedback: By Cindy Eastman
- Tom Gauld on the haters:
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- It’s not laziness when you’re not writing: by Daphne Gray-Grant
- Breaking Free from the Action Fallacy: by Rochelle Melander
- When the Comments Section Is Challenging: by Lea Page @janefriedman.com
- The Book Spending Spiral: by Sally Collings
- How Being a Former Gossip Reporter Made Me a Better Writer: by Juliet Izon
- It Only Gets Harder From Here: by Meg Dowell
- The Relationship Between the Police and PIs in Crime Fiction: @mkinberg.bsky.social
- What Kind of Mystery is That Anyway? by Mike Martin
- When Other Authors Pick Up the Torch to Write Loved Characters After the Death of the Creators: @mkinberg.bsky.social
- In The Spotlight: Jerry Brooks’ You’re So Wrong: A Boston Crime Novel: @mkinberg.bsky.social
- Evil People Unite: Villain Alliances: by Charles Yallowitz
- 7 Tips to Villain Alliances: by Charles Yallowitz
- How to Write Authentic Character Behavior: by Angela Ackerman
- Character Coping Mechanism Thesaurus Entry: Overindulging: by Becca Puglisi
- Base Your Story Structure on Principles, Not Systems: by Tiffany Yates Martin
- Benjamin Hale on How to Expand a Magazine Article Into a Book:
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- The Two Things Every Novel Needs: by James Scott Bell
- Include the audience: by Erik Bork
- Against Ageism in Fiction: By Valerie Saul
- Tayari Jones on Speaking in Metaphor:
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- Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise: by Russell Samora
- How Much Does Canon Matter? from Mythcreants
- Ooo La La: 5 Steps to Write Uncomfortable Scenes: by Jami Gold
- Reality…But Better: Never Let Facts Get in the Way of Fiction: By Matthew Norman
- Is My Story Working? by April Dávila
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Thanks very much for these links, Elizabeth! So much to think about! And what I'm especially noticing this time is the terrific variety among people who've been in other careers and are now writers. What an interesting perspective that gives!