Twitterific Writing Links

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

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Hope you had a good last couple of weeks!  Here is an extended Twitterific.  :)

Tweets Ending July 20th : 

• Make the Most of Your Local Bookstore Relationship: @AgnewRobin

• 5 Ways Writers Can Be Accountable: @WGTWrite @DIYMFA

• 11 Compelling Reasons Every Author Should Read: @JanalynVoigt
• How Reading Better Can Help You Write Better: @rsmonterusso @StoryGrid

• How writers can become better at self-management: @pubcoach

• 5 Sacrifices You Have to Make to be a Successful Writer: @colleen_m_story
• 10 Harsh Truths About Writing: @Bang2write
• Summer Struggles for Parent-Writers: @aimiekrunyan
• The World is Full of Rejections: Find the One That’s Right For You: @AjaMaybe @lithub
• Try Something New as a Writer: @thewarriormuse @TheIWSG
• Tips for a Leading a Writers Workshop: Preparation: @ZoeMMcCarthy
• How to Take a One-Day Creative Retreat: @DanBlank
• 12 Tips for Newly Published Writers: @dihofmeyr

• What’s the difference between historical fiction and creative nonfiction? by Brandi Reissenweber @TheWriterMag

• How To Write About Commonplace Experiences In Creative Nonfiction: @kayladeanwrites @DIYMFA

• Perfectionism as an Element in Crime Fiction: @mkinberg
• Tips for Writing a Mystery: by Joslyn Chase @write_practice
• Four Things Learned While Writing Crime Fiction: @KlikaZack @ReedsyHQ
• Crime Writing: 12 Facts About Interrogation: @LeeLofland

• Write a Nonfiction Book People Want to Read: @TCKPublishing

• Screenwriting: Free Online Writer Resources: @GoIntoTheStory

• How To Start Blogging: A Guide For Authors: @VeryGoodCopy @BadRedheadMedia

• 10 Literary Techniques to use in Your Copywriting: @KristinaAuthor
• About Page 101: Making Them Care: by Michael Pick @postaday

• Hate Book Marketing? 4 Tips To Help You Change Your Mindset and Sell More Books: @SmartAuthors @thecreativepenn

• 6 Welcome Email Examples (and How to Write Yours): @ashleyhockney @teachable

• How to Create a Social Media Schedule That Is Truly Effective: @DeniseWakeman
• Social Media for Authors: Quick Tips to Get It Right: @KimberleyGrabas

• Authors Guild Demands Police Organization Cease Pressure on School About Reading List: @mariraz @Porter_Anderson
• The Vocabulary of Publishing: By Richard Charkin @pubperspectives
• 5 Routes into Writing for Games: @gavininglis @scottishbktrust
• Rights Roundup: Six Countries, Several Themes, Lots of Sales: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• Interview: Two Lions’ Kelsey Skea on Rights, Series, Strategies, and Cadence: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• Bespoke Books for Indie Authors: @creativepumpkin @IndieAuthorALLI

• Segovia Programming Opens International Hay Festival Season: ‘Global Crises’: @Porter_Anderson
• The International Publishers Association at WIPO’s Standing Committee at Copyright: Drawing a Line: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives

• The Principles of Design: Font Pairing: by Kjell Reigstad @postaday

• Writing Tip & Task: Plotting a strong story arc: by Catherine Johnson @cbcreative

• Build Character Empathy in Your First Few Pages: @beccapuglisi
• Looking Back: A Retrospective Narrative That Appeals to the Senses: @peterselgin @JaneFriedman
• 8 Tips for Writing a Solid Opening Line: @_HannahHeath
• Real Life Diagnostics: Would You Keep Reading This Opening Scene? By Maria D’Marco

• The Importance of Character Growth: @PhilAthans
• 5 Moral Dilemmas That Make Characters and Stories Even Better: from The Writers Society
• How To Avoid Writing A Redshirt Character: by Robert Wood @standoutbooks

• 3 Types of Conflict to Improve Your Story: @TheRyanLanz

• How to Improve Your Dialogue: by Bucket Siler

• What is a Denouement? And How to Use It: @ReedsyHQ

• What Writers Can Learn From the Roleplaying Concept of “Flavor”: by Chris Winkle @mythcreants
• Using Charles Dickens’s Methodology for Book Writing: @JoEberhardt

• Four Ways to Plan Showing Vs. Telling in Your Novel: @AndreaWriterlea
• Making a Story Relatable: @marisadlsantos @WriterUnboxed
• Five Tips for Creating an Engaging Space Battle: by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants
• Writers: Your Skills May Need Time to Catch Up to Your Vision: by Bucket Silar
• The Wellspring of Emotion and Belief in Readers: @p2p_editor

• Tips for Better Pacing: from Ellie Writes Stories

• Book Title Generator: @ReedsyHQ

• Four Pillars Linking Character to Plot: @realjeffseymour
• Plot Your Novel: Favorite Novel Writing Tools: @angee

• Know Grammar Rules to Break Them Better: @aliciarasley
• 7 Errors Grammar Checkers Miss: @IndieAuthorALLI @ProWritingAid

• Getting, Accepting, and Incorporating Feedback on Your Writing: by C.K. Bush @NinaAmir

• Writing a Character: Conflict Balance: @Lindasclare

• “Why I No Longer Write Trilogies”: by Chris Fox

• 3 Ways To Ramp Up Setting And Description With Subtext: @LisaHallWilson

• Creating Tension in Your Fiction: @richardgthomas3 @LitReactor

• 500+ Ways to Describe Fire: A Word List for Writers: @KathySteinemann
• Descriptive verb list: 30 words to replace dull actions: @nownovel
• Declutter Your Prose: Three Phrases to Avoid in Your Posts: @cherilucas
• How to Avoid Clichés (Like the Plague): @weems503

• How to Open a Quick Reference Window in Scrivener in One Step: @aprildavila

• Occupation Thesaurus: Restaurant Server (Waiter/Waitress): @AngelaAckerman

Tweets ending July 28th:

• Co-Writing: Why You Should Try it: @Julie_Glover

• Stationery Packing List for a Writer’s Conference: @Inkwellmonster
• Is That Convention or Festival a Good Fit For Authors? @SpunkOnAStick
• The 2018 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Longlist Is Announced in London: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• Five Things Learned from Attending a Writer’s Conference: @MeredithSchorr @WomenWriters
• Cyprus: Kevin Jared Hosein Named Global Winner of Commonwealth Short Story Prize: @Porter_Anderson @cwwriters @kevinjhosein
• Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction Goes to CE Tobisman for ‘Proof’: @CETobisman_ @Porter_Anderson

• Why Your First Novel Isn’t Crap: @LisaLisax31

• Boost Your Creativity Mindset Naturally: @ChrysFey @AngelaAckerman

• 9 Things I Learned From Reading 45 Books At Once: @Gabino_Iglesias
• Literary Classics Retold As Two-Panel Comics: @WrongHands1 @lithub
• 5 Books Set on Fantastical Islands: by Simon Sylvester @tordotcom
• Five Books About Magical Apocalypses: @pengshepherd @tordotcom
• 9 Toxic Friendships in Literature: @NotoriousTIB @ElectricLit
• Tips for Reading Longer Classical Novels: @VivGroskop @GuardianBooks
• Be An Active Reader: How to Retain More of What You Read: @KarenBanes

• Think Small to Avoid Writer’s Block: @anne_staw @LiveWriteThrive

• Ways to Be A Good Writer Mom: @TheKTDaxon
• Writer Worries: How Do I Know If My Writing Is Good? @BrynDonovan
• What It Means to Be a Writing Teacher in the Age of School Shootings: @elisejuska @ElectricLit
• 11 Ways to Network with Other Authors: @DonnaGalanti
• How a Notebook Makes 1 Writer More Productive: @patrickrhone
• 5 Delusions Standing in the Way of Your Writing Success: @colleen_m_story
• Giving Your Writing A Proper Place in Time and Space: @Beth_Barany
• 14 Famous Writers on Whether or Not to Have Kids: @knownemily @lithub
• Imposter Syndrome: @victoria_grif7
• 3 Ways Writing Is Like Yoga: @SueBEdwards @womenonwriting
• How Cooking Frees My Mind to Think About Writing: @Jenna_Blum @lithub
• Battling Your Inner Critic or Making Friends with It–What Keeps You Writing the Most? @writeabook
• 5 TED Talks for Writers: @TCKPublishing @TEDTalks
• Surviving a Winter in the Rockies in the Name of Writing: @KarenJamestown @lithub
• How to Love the Work You Do: @SMExaminer @joelcomm
• Rhythms of Writing and Reading: @katmagendie @WriterUnboxed

• Discover the Plot of Your Post-Apocalyptic Novel With a Handy Chart: by Jess Zimmerman and Halimah Marcus @ElectricLit

• Why Illness Memoirs Are So Important to Chronically Sick People: @ShoshanaSays @ElectricLit

• 12 Rules for Writing a Biographical Novel: @sallykoslow @CareerAuthors

• The appeal of the exotic as an element in crime fiction: @mkinberg

• Prepping Poetry for Self-Publication: by Kallie Falandays @WritersDigest

• 52 Romance Story Ideas with Built-in Conflict: @EvaDeverell

• Screenwriting Tips And Writing Diverse Characters with Selina Ukwuoma: @thecreativepenn
• Screenwriting: Starting at the Ending: @GoIntoTheStory

• The ‘Imperfect’ Author Bio: @WritetoDone
• How to Name Your Crime Novel: @CrimeReads

• 7 Tips to Build an Audience for Your Writing: by Bucket Siler

• 7 Ways To Market Your Book With Visual Storytelling: @RacheleBakerDVM @thecreativepenn

• What to Look for in a Book Publicist—Plus Tips for Going It Alone: @tanyahall @JaneFriedman
• Ways to Promote Without Being on Social Media: @TCKPublishing
• Writing, Publishing And Marketing Non-Fiction. Facebook Live With Joanna Penn: @thecreativepenn

• How To Strategically Build A Brand Experience: @Charli_Mills @BadRedheadMedia

• Why Authors Should Be Speaking on Their Books … Their Expertise: @mybookshepherd

• SEO for Authors: @DaveChesson @JFbookman

• Editing: The Cozy Mystery Publishing Process: @Ellen__Jacobson
• An Agent on How Book Royalties Work: @RachelleGardner
• Publisher Perilous Worlds Created To Advance Sci-Fi and Fantasy Brands With Books: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• Standing Out From the Crowd: Tips from a Literary Magazine Editor: by Ashley Moore @A_WritersStudio
• Damsels Rescuing Princes in Distress: @Porter_Anderson @TOKYOPOP @MangaNatalia
• How To Update Your Book Without Losing Your Reviews: @JFbookman

• Interview: Jade Robertson on Entering the Arabic Market: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• UK’s Growing Book Exports Could be in Danger after Brexit: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• PublishDrive Announces Partnership with Chinese Retailer Dangdang: @Porter_Anderson @publishdrive
• Man Booker International Prize Jurors Named; Submissions Open: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• Scrivener How-To: Using Snapshots: @Gwen_Hernandez
• Germany’s De Gruyter Buys Düsseldorf Uni Press; S&S Distributes Skyhorse: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• Innovations in STEM and gender equality are featured as social topics in this year’s Hay Festival Querétaro: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• Annual Publisher Survey Puts 2017 Estimated US Revenue at $26.2 Billion: @Porter_Anderson @AmericanPublish
• Sweden’s IKEA Wembley and the UK’s Man Booker Prize Create Reading Rooms: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• Retail Pressures: Ukraine’s Open-Air Bookselling Marketplaces Appear Headed for Closure: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• Canadian Publishers Issue Statement on Access Copyright Counterclaim to Lawsuit: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• Timely International Publication Credited as Part of Romania’s Stronger Market: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• Beijing International Book Fair 2018 Anticipates Participation From 93 Countries: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives

• A Timeline for Releasing and Marketing a Self-Published Book: by Henry Quense

• 3 Things to Know Before You Pitch in an Online Pitch Event: @rosiesrambles

• Why are middle-aged women invisible on book covers? @alisonflood @GuardianBooks

• 6 Keys for Book Page Layout: @TCKPublishing

• Crafting a Strong Beginning: @JulieEshbaugh

• 4 Ways to Write a Better Antagonist: @KMWeiland

• Occupation Thesaurus Entry: Model: @AngelaAckerman

• Writing Emotional Meaning: @Kid_Lit

• How Theme and False Theme Affect Your Protagonist: @SeptCFawkes
• Giving Your Hero Sympathetic Problems: by Chris Winkle @mythcreants
• Tips for Avoiding Mary Sue Characters: from @DN_Bryn

• Diversity: Subtle Indicators of Native Americans: from Writing With Color

• A Case Study on Revenge as a Literary Theme: @saral_writer @DIYMFA
• Use Theme to Determine Subplots, Supporting Characters, and Tension: @amandarhill32
• 5 Ways to Inject Theme into Your Story (Without Being Obvious): via Ink and Grace Editing @DIYMFA

• Write Better Sports Fiction With These Tips: @FredBobJohn
• Writing Prose: 5 Steps to Better Style: @nownovel
• The most intriguing characteristics of a novel: @Peter_Rey_
• 5 Moral Dilemmas That Make Characters and Stories Even Better: From Fix Your Writing Habits
• Storyteller’s Rulebook: Humanize the Inhuman (Examples from “Beloved”): @CockeyedCaravan
• The Writer’s Spice Cabinet: @jamesscottbell
• The Reason to Tell a Story Inside a Box: @DonMaass
• 9 Character Types to Include in Your Story: @KristinaAuthor
• Narrative Voices: Person and Tense: @RachFarrimond
• The 8 Keys To A Good Heist Story: @helpfulsnowman

• How Can I Write a Tight Story That Takes Place Over Years? by Chris Winkle @mythcreants

• Writing in First Person: @TheMerryWriter

• How to Pick a Character’s Name: @AndreaWriterlea @TheIWSG

• How to Write a Novel Using The Three-Act Structure: @ReedsyHQ
• The Triangle Structure for Writers: @SarahSallyHamer @EdieMelson
• 20 Basic Plots: from The Writer’s Handbook
• The Story Comes First: Where to Start with Story Structure: @usbergo @unboundworlds

• 7 Steps To Take Before Submitting Your Manuscript To An Editor: @InvisibleEditor @Nicholas_Rossis

• Get Good Feedback on Your Writing — Asking the Right Person the Right Questions: by Nils Ödlund @mythcreants
• 9 factors to consider when considering critique partners: @raimeygallant

• How to Write Strong Scenes: 4 Key Questions to Evaluate Your Scene: @WritersDigest

• How to Write a Book Series Without Messing Things Up: @Jffelkins

• Writing the Dreaded Novel Synopsis? These 2 Simple Hacks Will Help: @annerallen

• Discovering Your Unique Writing Voice: @writingthrulife

• 600+ Ways to Describe Necks: A Word List for Writers: @KathySteinemann
• Are These Filter Words Weakening Your Story? from The Writers Society

• Grammarly Review 2018: @DaveChesson

• How to Create a Character Profile: the Ultimate Guide (with Template): @ReedsyHQ
• For Writers Visiting Schools: Directing A Short Story Workshop for Kids: @hanque99