by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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I’m taking a few weeks off from blogging for a summer break. I’ll continue posting Twitterifics, though. :) I’ll be back July 17 with regular posts.
- How to Get Started in Ghostwriting: @LindaGilden @EdieMelson
- Creating a Publication Timeline for Your Next Release: @beccapuglisi @onestop4writers
- Don’t blurb bad books: @jbernoff
- The 2023 German Book Trade’s Peace Prize: Salman Rushdie: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Beijing International Book Fair Reports 2,500+ Exhibitors: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- The UK’s Yoto Carnegie Medal: A First Win for a Book in Translation: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- The UAE’s $544,528 Golden Narrative Opens for Submissions: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Five Authors Who Wrote Sequels to Someone Else’s Work: @jamesdnicoll @tordotcom
- Terrible Mothers in Horror: A Reading List: by Katrina Monroe @CrimeReads
- Whodunnits With a Killer Twist: by Gabriella Lepore @CrimeReads
- 9 Novels About Characters Looking to Be Transformed by Sex or Love: by Hanna Halperin @ElectricLit
- Six Novels Exploring the Underbelly of Privileged Enclaves: @LindsayJCameron @CrimeReads
- Building Our Personal Libraries, and the Books We Leave Behind: @mollytempleton @tordotcom
- 6 Mid-Life Memoirs of Transformative Years: by Megan Beauregard @BookTrib
- Crime Fiction: In The Spotlight: Paul D. Brazill’s Stray Bullets: @MargotKinberg
- How Writing a Novel is Like Raising an Unruly Child: @KelsieEngen
- The unique challenges of writing out of order: @cara_putman
- Will AI Replace Writers? It Already Is. @FoxPrintEd
- I Feel Bad For New Writers: @deanwesley20
- How Finding Your Why Helps You Keep Writing: @GraceBialecki @DIYMFA
- Building Bits of Life into a Novel: @kcraftwriter
@WriterUnboxed - I Feel Bad For New Writers: Things Change: @DeanWesleySmith
- Writer’s Block And The New Writer: What My 11-Year-Old Daughter Learned At Authorcon: 2 @P_M_Anderson @LitReactor
- How To Write About Your Mother:
@RTMcDonell @lithub - In Praise of Meandering: by Valerie Nieman @WomenWriters
- Making Art From Life. Mental Health For Writers: @tobywneal @thecreativepenn
- Why There’s No Such Thing as “Just a Story”: @KMWeiland
- Becoming a Mom Has Made Me A Better (And Worse) Writer: @AuthorSAT
- How to harness the power of distraction free writing: @pubcoach
- The Good, the Not-So-Good and The Frustrating Aspects of Entering Writing Contests: @EdieMelson
- How to Leverage Book Awards: @LisaTener
- Book Club Adventures: by Sheena Wilkinson
- Strategy and collaboration tools for a modest book launch: @jbernoff
- How to write acknowledgments: @jbernoff
- Richard Charkin: Chatting Megatrends With ChatGPT: @rcharkin @pubperspectives
- Self-publishing News: Twitter Sued Over Failure to Enforce Copyright Violation Notices: @agnieszkasshoes @IndieAuthorALLI
- World Refugee Day: Italian-Ukrainian Bilingual Books in Naples: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Report: Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Backs the Hurowitz S&S Bid: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Taylor & Francis Reports ‘Accelerating Open Access in the UK: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Birth Order and Character Development: the Only Child: @gmplano @StoryEmpire
- What is Your Character’s Fatal Flaw? @KelsieEngen
- Enhance Your Story’s Rampant Appeal With Archetypes: @JunetaKey @TheIWSG
- Character Type and Trope Thesaurus: Explorer: @AngelaAckerman @onestop4writers
- 10 Tips for Writing a Boring Story: @KelleyLindberg1
@RMFWriters - Reasons Why Readers Quit a Book: @WordDreams
- Writing Fiction: Summary or Action? @Lindasclare
- How to Write Better Prose: @AuthorMarilene
- How to Write a Summary: An Essential Guide: @themaltesetiger
- 3 Things to Do When You Can’t Use Your Favorite Writing Style: by Pekoeblaze @TheRyanLanz
- 9 Magic Ways Collaborative Storytellers Empower Writing: by Lisa Norman
These are great links, Elizabeth, but then, they always are! I was intrigued by the one about blurbing a bad book. Blurbs are always so tricky (part of the reason they're hard to write!). On the one hand, you want readers to be interested enough to pick up the book. On the other, I think too many blurbs are misleading. And they use superlatives that have gotten, I think, worn out (like 'gripping,' 'edge of your seat,' etc.).
They’re like ad copy, but ad copy can get stale! Very tricky, as you say. :)
Hey there! I came across this list of Twitterific writing links, and it seems like there's a lot of valuable information there. I'm particularly interested in the articles about ghostwriting and creating a publication timeline. I'm curious about the new redesign and how browsing by category works. Please feel free to ask any specific questions you may have about writing; I'm here to help.
https://bit.ly/3C9eMwX
Category browsing is on the writerskb.com site, where over 68K curated writing links are stored and searchable. Thanks for coming by!