Twitterific Writing Links

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

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I had a book release last week.  :)  Cleaning is Murder launched Tuesday.

• How to Treat Writing Like a Business: @TuesWithLaurie

• International Literature Festival Berlin Rolls Out 2018 Programming: @Porter_Anderson @ilb_
• 5 Etiquette Tips for Your Next Book Event: @wandalu64
• Update From the Beijing International Book Fair’s Professional Programs: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• Beijing Book Fair Director Liying Lin on China’s Book Market: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives

• Where do you get your ideas from? @melanippee

• 20 Reasons to Read a Book: @JodyHedlund
• 7 Authors Who Only Ever Published One (Fantastic) Novel: @Keith_Rice1 @SignatureReads
• 25 Alice Munro Stories You Can Read Online Right Now: @knownemily

• Tips for Getting the Passion Back in Your Writing: @christinadelay
• How to Break a Bad Habit or Start a Good One: Reward Yourself: @BrynDonovan

• How to Use a “Time Block” to Get More Writing Done: @losapala
• How to Make Time to Write With a Busy Schedule: @the_writing_pal
• How to Write Your Book in Five Minutes a Day: @WriteNowCoach

• Why 1 Writer Goes to Bed Early: @asthebirdflies

• 6 Steps to Achieving Zen-Like Writer Efficiency: @annerallen @DaveChesson
• How a Secondary Project Can Help with Productivity: from Just a Writing Aid
• 6 Ways to Double Your Writing Speed: @LMacNaughton

• 5 Things Successful Writers Do that Others Miss: @DanBlank
• 7 Things Lucky Writers Do to Succeed: @colleen_m_story

• Silence Your Inner Editor: @victoria_grif7
• 3 wondrous paradoxes of a slow writing process: @Roz_Morris
• Own Your Success and Your Failure: @KristineRusch
• Why It’s Time to Finally Call Yourself a Writer: @BeingTheWriter @womenonwriting
• 10 Ways to Survive Your Debut Author Year: @WF_writerEM @WomenWriters
• On (Re)Writing Real-Life Tragedy: @KimberlySBelle @WomenWriters
• When family and friends aren’t interested in your writing: from Just a Writing Aid
• Don’t Let Anybody Tell You How to Write (or 8 Tips for Learning Responsibly): @KMWeiland
• On Falling in Love with the Language I’ve Spoken My Entire Life: @citizenofspace @lithub

• How to Create a Magic System in Six Simple Steps: @kristen_kieffer
• Creating a Magic System for Superpowers: by Chris Winkle
• Creating a Fictional Economy: by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants

• Writing Memoir: Owning Your Story (Podcast): @DIYMFA with Grace Kennan Warnecke

• 5 things about writing a psychological thriller: @HeidiPerksBooks @CurtisBrown
• 3 reasons to use free indirect speech in your crime fiction: @LouiseHarnby
• Crime Writing: Cops: How To Tell Who’s Who: Behind The Pins And Medals: @LeeLofland

• “I Talked to 39 Women Who Write Nonfiction, and Here’s What I’ve Learned”: @eb_bartels @ElectricLit
• Get Back To Writing Creative Nonfiction When You’ve Lost Your Way: @kayladeanwrites

• How to Write a Children’s Book: an Author’s Guide: @ReedsyHQ

• 4 Authors Share Their Best Tips for Writing Fantasy & Science-Fiction: @WritersDigest

• Great Scene: “Citizen Kane”: @GoIntoTheStory

• 9 Tips for Writing Good, Healthy Relationships in Your YA Novel: @_HannahHeath

• 4 Ways You Can Start Writing Better Blog Posts Immediately: @karonthackston

• Your Author Bio is a Powerful Tool to Build Your Brand: @DaveChesson @BookWorksNYC

• Look for deeper ways of connecting with readers: @austinkleon

• How to Get Blurbs: A Case Study on Connecting with Influencers: @timgrahl

• 12 Author Platform Building Blocks to Choose From: @sandrabeckwith

• How to Build a Community on Twitter: @CaballoFrances @JFbookman

• How to Use the Amazon Algorithm to Sell More Books: @AlinkaRutkowska @jfbookman
• Author Richard Russo Warns of Tech Giants’ Move Into Content for Writers: @Porter_Anderson @AuthorsGuild
• Kobo Ebooks and Audiobooks Arrive in America at Walmart: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
• New Report: American Teens Spend Less Time Reading: @Porter_Anderson @jean_twenge
• New Partnership Between @AuthorsGuild and The Hot Sheet: @Porter_Anderson @JaneFriedman
• Easy listening: the rise of the audiobook: @AlexClark3 @GuardianBooks
• New York Public Library Initiates Its New ‘Insta Novels’ on Instagram: @Porter_Anderson @nypl
• Wattpad’s 2018 ‘Diversity & Inclusion’ Survey: Progress, and Tech Realities: @Porter_Anderson @allenlau @wattpad
• Industry Notes: ‘Great American Read’ Has Its Own Read; Unicorn Driven to ‘Urban Cars’: @Porter_Anderson @UnicornPubGroup

• Australia’s online retailer Booktopia expands its distribution service: @thenewpubstd
• Canada’s Fraser Valley Regional Library Has VR Partnership for Inanimate Alice: @Porter_Anderson @ReadLearnPlay
• Programming for the 2018 Singapore Asian Festival of Children’s Content: @Porter_Anderson @AFCC_sg
• Political Publishing: The UK’s Byline Media Festival Showcases Its New Press: @MarkPiesing @pubperspectives

• The Rewards and Challenges of Self-Publishing Children’s Books: Q&A with Four Authors: @sangeeta_editor @JaneFriedman

• Five myths and two truths about getting published: @DanaShavin @TheWriterMag

• What the ‘Send 50 pages’ Agent Request Really Means: @Janet_Reid

• Top Five DIY Book Layout Mistakes: @JFbookman

• How to Write a Great First Sentence, with 22 Examples: @RuthHarrisBooks
• Real Life Diagnostics: Does This Crime Fiction Opening Hook You? By Maria D’Marco
• Trick the Mind, Get Creative and Opening Lines: @10MinNovelists

• Characters development and personality traits points to consider: @Joannewriter
• Different Types of Characters to Include in Your Story: @KathyEdens1 @ProWritingAid
• Creating Characters That Wow: @TheMerryWriter

• Writing Emotions Effectively: @repokempt

• Conflict Choices for Characters: @FaeRowen
• Person Vs Society: 6 Types of Story Conflict: @nownovel

• Getting Regional Dialogue Right: @JoEberhardt

• How Do You Lead Readers to Your Theme? @sacha_black

• Finish Writing Your Book Using This 4-Step Process: @JennHarris_ICM
• Tips for writing religious devotionals: @MissyTippens
• 6 Ways to Manipulate Time in Fiction: @ChairmanDog @ReedsyHQ @LiveWriteThrive
• Beginning or Finishing? Which is Harder? @plotwhisperer
• Novels are Way More than Just Writing a Story: @CindyDevoted @EdieMelson
• How to Write Stuff People Want to Read: @AnneJanzer

• Good Pacing and Why It Matters: @HannahFergesen

• Cleaning Up Those POV Breaks: @anngborn2write

• What Your Character Experiences While Leaving the Military: from It’s a Writer Thing
• 5 Things a Writer Needs to Know About a Character with a Mental Illness: @SloanTamar

• Writing Down the Story Beats: @Lindasclare

• On Semicolons and the Rules of Writing: @AdamOPrice @The_Millions

• 8 Self-editing Techniques to Cut Your Editing Time in Half: by Hayley Millman @ProWritingAid
• 2 Simple Tips To Spot Structural Problems In Your Writing: @Bang2write

• Critique Groups – 8 Good Reasons to Love Them: @eroyalauthor

• The Making of a Scene: @EddieJonesTweet

• The Mentor: Trope Reboot by Brian DeLeonard @mythicscribes

• Writer’s Tools and the Forgotten Keyboard: @JFbookman

• 7 Habits of Highly Effective Writing Critique Groups: By Ryan Van Cleave