
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
After 16 years, I’m winding down my daily link curation for writers. August 8th was the last day and this is the final LitLinks.
My first roundup, “Links for Writers,” went up on March 7, 2010. By the end of that month I’d renamed it Twitterific, and it ran as a regular feature from there on — through the rise and fall of Twitter, the shift to BlueSky, and every platform change in between.
What I’ll carry with me from all those years of curating isn’t the links themselves; it’s everything I learned from them. Craft advice, business realities, tools worth using, services worth avoiding. I’ve “met” so many writers this way, and I’ve always felt like curation was my way of staying connected to the wider writing community, not just my own little corner of it.
I owe a huge thanks to Mike Fleming, who reached out 15 years ago and built the Writer’s Knowledge Base, https://writerskb.com/ , a searchable database that took the links I was sharing and turned them into something far more lasting and useful than a single scrolling feed could ever be. Mike has quietly kept that engine running behind the scenes for years, and writers searching for craft and business advice have him to thank as much as those of us who contributed links.
Thank you to every blogger whose work I’ve shared, and to everyone who’s followed along. It’s been an honor to be part of this community for so long. I’ll still be writing about the craft and business of writing every Monday over on the blog, so I hope you’ll stick around for that.
- Why You Shouldn’t Be Writing Every Day: by Meg Dowell
- Where Does Creative Flow Come From?: by Gabriela Pereira
- Poems for Creative Burnout: by Elle Kammerer
- Writing: Do You Wait for Inspiration?: by Linda S. Clare
- Your Life Goals Document: by Randy Ingermanson
- When You’re Not Sure Your Story Will Work: by Colleen M. Story
- The Confidence Trap: by Daphne Gray-Grant
- When Bloggers Vanish: Online Friendships, Goodbyes and Silence: by @hughsviewsandnews.com
- Why Do We Keep Murdering Our Darlings?: by Sarah Braunstein
- A Decade of Damage: Revisiting the Novel That Saved My Writing Career: by Matthew Norman
- I Thought I Had Nothing to Write About, Then I Got a Dog: by Camille Perri
- Sinking in the Sand: by Lisa Norman
- The Best Strategy for Sending Query Letters: by Nathan Bransford
- One Way to Tell If a Publisher Actually Has Distribution: by Tanya Hall on @janefriedman.com
- Beyond the Shelf: 4 Subgenres Reshaping What We Read: by Brian Andrews
- Types of Romance Stories: by Jami Gold
- Three Ways to Lose a Romance Reader: by Jenn Windrow
- Five Horror Books Featuring Older Protagonists: by Lorna Wallace
- Why Analysts Make Great Authors: by Josh Bernoff
- The Problem With Corporate Authors: by Josh Bernoff
- A Book Tour Isn’t About Selling Books: by Rea Frey
- C-Span Interview with Ann Patchett on What Sells Books: by Ann Patchett
- What Promise Does Your Book Make?: by Marisa Solis and Elizabeth Dougherty on @janefriedman.com
- Make Your Books More AI Visible: by Deborah Jay
- How to Choose the Right Character Arc: by K.M. Weiland
- Writing Stronger Characters for Plot-Driven Stories: by September C. Fawkes
- The Antagonist as a Literary Device: by Amanda Patterson
- Not All Main Characters Need to Be Likeable: by Christina Wyman on @janefriedman.com
- How to Create a Character That Represents a Group: by Chris Winkle
- What’s in a Book’s Name? One Writer’s Journey to Finding the Perfect Title: by Brook Wilensky-Lanford
- How to Write Good: by Josh Bernoff
- Attaining Perspective With Delusional Clients: by Josh Bernoff
- Want a Twist Readers Will Love? Make Your Protagonist Wrong: by Janice Hardy
- How Using a Timeline Can Help You Plot Your Novel: by Amanda Patterson
- Red Herrings in Crime Fiction and Thrillers: Designing False Conclusions: by Louise Harnby
- Asking “Why” Can Affect Our Stories: by Kathleen McCleary
- How to Create Tension in Storytelling: by Susanne Bennett
- Don’t Squander the Power of Platonic Relationships: from Fox Print Editorial
- 7 Ways to Make Readers Believe the Improbable in Fiction: by C.S. Lakin
- 7 Ways to Make a Small Story Feel Substantial: by Kathryn Craft
- How to Use Critique Without Losing Confidence: by April Dávila
- How to Start Writing After 40: by Javacia Harris Bowser
- 10 Dangerous Critiques: Writing Advice to Ignore: by Anne R. Allen
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I am so sorry to see the Lit Links go, Elizabeth. You have helped us all to be better writers by doing this, and I will miss seeing these links come up every week. Thanks for all you've done with WKB!
Thanks for all your support, Margot!