by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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- How a Writer Can Stay Above the Freelance Slush Pile: @LindaGilden @ediemelson
- Why Successful Writers Need To Do More Than Write: by Belinda Williams
- Cooking Up Success: The TikTok Personality Behind a Bestselling Self-Published Book: @JaneFriedman
- This Isn’t The End: What To Do When Your Publisher Dies: by James Queally @crimereads
- Crime Fiction: In The Spotlight: Lisa Alber’s Kilmoon: @margotkinberg
- Five Scary Stories Set at Camp: by Lorna Wallace @reactormag @literaryreactor
- Tom Gauld on how to manage your unread books pile – cartoon: @tomgauld @guardianbooks
- Genre Drift: Mysteries with Speculative Touches: by Morgan Richter @crimereads
- Writing and Balancing Social Media: by Eve Messenger
- A Literary Road Trip Across America: @literaryhub @lithub
- Learn Your Personal Signs of Burn-Out: @finishedpages
- Reflections on writing with Kaat Vrancken: @pubcoach
- There’s No Happily Ever After and the Good Guys Never Win: @foxprinted
- Balancing Marketing and Writing New Books: by M.K. Williams
- Should You Go Ahead and Write Mediocre Books? @jamesscottbell
- Jodi Picoult on the Importance of Recognition: @lithub @literaryhub
- Writing in Turbulent Times: by Juliet Marillier @pubperspectives
- Five Ways to Stay Relevant as an Author: @KHutch0767 @ediemelson
- The Fantasy Dwarf Stereotypes: @cyallowitz
- High Fantasy vs Low Fantasy: Differences and Examples: by Shane Millar
- The Trope of the “Crazy” Female Protagonist: by Caroline Wolff @crimereads
- Crime Fiction Must Not Ignore Computer Crime: by Stephen Harrison @crimereads
- Misfit Sleuths in Crime Fiction: @margotkinberg
- The Irresistible Pull of an Anonymous Note—Why the Most Frightening Possibility Is All of Them: by Elizabeth Staple @crimereads
- The Admirable Uncertainty of the Antidetective Novel: by Eugenie Montague @crimereads
- Plot Weaving Mastery: Create a Character that Resonates with Any Audience: @TheLeighShulman
- Characters Don’t Need Flaws: by Oren Ashkenazi
- Writing A “Career” Hero: @diannmills @careerauthors
- Tragic Hero: Definition and Writing Examples: by Shane Millar
- How Characters’ Hobbies and Interests Affect the Narrative: by Ellen Buikema
- The 18 Types of Sentence Connectors + Examples: @writers_write
- Twenty-One Cognitive Tools For Making Smarter Decisions: @GarryRodgers1
- Writing 101: What The Heck Is a Turning Point? @JennyHansenCA
- Six Powerful Secrets to Polishing Your Manuscript: by Zoje Stage @careerauthors
- Cliffhangers: Fantastic Hooks or Just Annoying? from Mythcreants
- How to Write Sizzling Sex Scenes Despite the Fear of Sizzling: by Rebecca Anne Nguyen
- Choose Your Own Adventure: On the Limits of Personal Agency in Migrant Fiction: by Ruben Reyes Jr. @literaryhub @lithub
- The Secret to Writing Strong Themes: @KMWeiland
- Character vs Self Conflict in Writing: by Shane Millar
- Creating Suspense in any Genre: @MBarker_190 @WriterThesaurus
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Thanks, Elizabeth, for these links. I really do learn every time I visit your site! I noticed a couple today about editing, and they resonated. I sometimes think the work of writing begins after you finish writing the story…
Editing can be the toughest part!