Sunday, June 27, 2010

Twitterific

Terry3Here are writing links that I’ve posted to Twitter for the past week. If you’re looking for a particular topic, just plug in your keyword into the search box at the top left-hand corner of the blog (on the black header right above my blog name…next to the Blogger symbol…the small search window is next to the magnifying glass) and the roundup with your subject will come up. To narrow your search down on the page, do a CTRL+F, type your subject, and hit enter.

Purposeful Daydreaming: http://dld.bz/jksy

The dirty writing rule happy authors swear by: http://dld.bz/jksw

Writing New Worlds to Life: http://dld.bz/jksh

Follow the yellow brick rules: http://dld.bz/jkrP

Writers--how to toughen up: http://dld.bz/jkrG @JodyHedlund

The Hero’s Journey Part 10 – The Road Back: http://dld.bz/hUPx @JustusRStone

7 Interview Tips That Help You Get the Killer Quotes and Color Your Story Needs: http://dld.bz/hUKE @WritersKitchen

When Your Writing Bores You (Writer's Digest): http://dld.bz/hUK8

When is doing a single-book contract ideal and when is a multi-book contract best? http://dld.bz/hUKw

Resort to trickery to force yourself to write: http://dld.bz/hUKr

Big publishers have reason to be happy about how the book market is evolving: http://dld.bz/hUKd

Significantly Speed Up Your WordPress Blog in 9 Easy Steps-- http://dld.bz/hUJV

How to throw out your 65,000 word WIP – And Use The BEST BITS To Build a Better One: http://dld.bz/hUJK @DeeScribe

Inherent Contradictions in Character: http://dld.bz/hUJu

Revision Indecision: http://dld.bz/hUJy

Dude, you write books? The 3 classic reactions: http://dld.bz/jkpc

Ethics of Review Copies : http://dld.bz/jgxm

8 Oddball Writing Tips: http://dld.bz/hUGE @yaHighway

Top 5 Twitter transgressions for writers: http://dld.bz/hUGu @yaHighway

7 Things to Do on a Plane (the writer edition): http://dld.bz/jhes @nomadshan

20 Warning Signs That Your Blog Content Sucks: http://dld.bz/hUC8

4 Things that Big Bloggers tell You that You Shouldn’t Ignore: http://dld.bz/jhbD @LiteraryNobody

How one writer successfully faces her writing demons: http://dld.bz/jgPk @elspethwrites @margotkinberg

5 ways to tell your WIP is progressing (LOL): http://dld.bz/hUFq @Amanda_Hannah

Scene transitions--don't follow your characters around when they're being boring: http://dld.bz/jgNF @authorterryo

Authors and the media--tips for interviews: http://dld.bz/jgEx @

Building Your Book/Author Website: http://dld.bz/hUEW @QueryTracker

How to Write Drunk: A Revising Technique: http://dld.bz/hUEr @paulocampos

Best fantasy books for children (Salon): http://dld.bz/hUEn

How one writer uses crits in her editing process: http://dld.bz/hUDB

Urgency vs action in your writing: http://dld.bz/hUDt @TeresaFrohock

10 Errors that Drive One Agent Crazy: http://dld.bz/hUCG

Why I Don't Care About Grammar (and Why You Should Stop Worrying)--Writer's Digest: http://dld.bz/hU5H

12 Secrets to Selling More Books at Events (Huff Post): http://dld.bz/hU5t

Things to keep in mind when writing for children: http://dld.bz/hHus

Does your mood affect your writing? http://dld.bz/jdSd @ territiffany1

How well do you know your characters? http://dld.bz/hHqG

The importance of taking editorial advice: http://dld.bz/jdHv

Are Agents Underpaid? http://dld.bz/jdRJ

What to remember if you have the unagented blues: http://dld.bz/hHud @ authorsampark

Summer Mystery Conferences & Conventions-- http://dld.bz/jdGZ @JanetRudolph

Put your reader to sleep: http://dld.bz/hHrk

What 81% of agents expect on the 1st page: http://dld.bz/hHr7

Don't just be a 'good' book marketer--be a great one: http://dld.bz/hUJr

The Rise and Fall of the Mass Market Paperback. Part 1: http://dld.bz/hUHV & part 2: http://dld.bz/hUHZ @ereads

Quotations: Writers on Religion: http://dld.bz/hHnA

For fantasy writers: Dwarves and Gnomes: http://dld.bz/hHn6

List of Gender-Neutral Names for Writers Looking for Pen Names: http://dld.bz/hHnh

Food writing moves from kitchen to bookshelf (Guardian): http://dld.bz/hHne

Daily Writing Goals: Why Are They So (Bleeping) Difficult? http://dld.bz/hHna

Are video games the next great art form? (Salon): http://dld.bz/hHmH

How to write the breakout novel: Part 5 - A Vivid Setting: http://dld.bz/hHmD

How to Clean Up Your Formatting in a Query: http://dld.bz/hHmt

Multiple POVs: http://dld.bz/hHme

Tips for handling transitions: http://dld.bz/hYBb @authorterryo

Ready to query? http://dld.bz/hHkJ @calistataylor

Different paths, same destination: http://dld.bz/hYA5 @elspethwrites

Problems with writing in first person: http://dld.bz/hHk7 @ClarissaDraper

Newton’s first law of writing: http://dld.bz/hHkh

How to Network Effectively-- http://dld.bz/hHkb

Setting as tone reinforcement-- http://dld.bz/hHhH

Getting rid of the boring stuff in our writing: http://dld.bz/hWMP

Hooking the reader: how Rowling and others pulled it off-- http://dld.bz/hHjj @LisasWords

Technology and Books-- http://dld.bz/hHkq

Ethics and Professionalism and Blogging-- http://dld.bz/hHjb

8 Ways To Bring Your Creative Passions to Work-- http://dld.bz/hWM4

12 Ways to Make Your Blog Posts more Credible-- http://dld.bz/hHjC

How to Keep Inspired When Blogging Gets Tough: http://dld.bz/hUHB

Confused about irony? The Oatmeal explains the 3 most common uses: http://dld.bz/hUHt @Oatmeal

Making Sure Our Novels Are Worth Reading-- http://dld.bz/hD3q

Alphabet soup--how one writer was bounced from editor to editor (New Yorker): http://dld.bz/hUSN

The Google Wave: http://dld.bz/hD34

5 ways to create sympathetic characters: http://bit.ly/aP8w8y @p2p_editor

What makes a book review worth reading? http://dld.bz/hUCM @ bibliophilicboo

Single Or Double Space-- http://dld.bz/hD3s @BubbleCow

Ten of the best good doctors in literature (Guardian): http://dld.bz/hD3r

Writing Jobs: 3 Reasons You're Not Getting Hired as a Freelancer: http://dld.bz/hD3j

Tips for writing realistic sex scenes: http://dld.bz/hUhZ

Jarring elements to avoid in your manuscript: http://dld.bz/hUds

7 Things That Can Go Wrong & Generally Do: http://dld.bz/hUcF @VictoriaMixon

Finding the Story in the Story (the triggering event): http://dld.bz/gwkT

Playing With Your Blocks (build a lasting monument) -- http://dld.bz/hD2S

Some insights on the picture book illustrating process: http://dld.bz/hD2K

Context and Subtext: http://dld.bz/hD28

The Value of an Unpublished Blog Post-- http://dld.bz/hD26

The 3 main reasons why published authors are struggling right now: http://dld.bz/hD2z

6 Common Publishing and Marketing Mistakes: http://dld.bz/hD2w

The central action of a story: http://dld.bz/hD2u

Freelance Writers: Be Careful Out There: http://dld.bz/h7E4 @carsonbrackney

The Secret to Getting Published-- http://dld.bz/h7E2

Video Games Are Art and Genre Fiction Is Literature-- http://dld.bz/h7Ez

The Inciting Incident of Our Story: http://dld.bz/h7Ef

From One Young Writer to Another: Being Your Own Editor: http://dld.bz/h7Ed

Kill Your Darlings . . . http://dld.bz/h7Ex

Four Steps to Finding Your Ideal Writing Voice: http://dld.bz/h7Dz

7 pieces of wisdom from Socrates: http://dld.bz/h7Dd

What to do when a foul person achieves great success: http://dld.bz/h7CH

Your Excuses About Writing Are Vitally Important! (Writer's Digest): http://dld.bz/h7Bu

How To Handle a Bad Review-- http://dld.bz/h7Bt

Marxism as Science Fiction: http://dld.bz/h7Br

The plan and central action of your plot: http://dld.bz/h7Bk

Is quirky a good thing? http://dld.bz/h7Bf

Top 10 books written for teenagers (Guardian): http://dld.bz/h7AV

Submission Purgatory-- http://dld.bz/h7AR

Don't tell friends they *should* read something: http://dld.bz/h7Ax

Writing Sex and Sensuality-- http://dld.bz/h7As

The Tangled Web We Weave (Experimenting with New Territories in a Book): http://dld.bz/h7Ad

Too Cliché or Not Too Cliché? - That is the Question-- http://dld.bz/h79Z

The Emotional Side of Setting-- http://dld.bz/h79K @CPatrickSchulze

Context is Everything-- http://dld.bz/h79E

Writing a synopsis can rock your novel: http://dld.bz/hHp7 @dirtywhitecandy

Interfering characters: http://dld.bz/hHh5

Subtle word changes can make a big difference to your manuscript: http://dld.bz/h797

Walking the tightrope between translation and interpretation (Guardian): http://dld.bz/h792

Balancing family and writing-- http://dld.bz/h7Av

Queering SFF: Writing Sex—To Do, or Not to Do?-- http://dld.bz/h77Z

All you ever wanted to know about critique groups: http://dld.bz/h79z

Blogs writers can't live without: http://dld.bz/hEVN @AngelaAckerman

Plot Tip: Showing character emotion--not telling: http://dld.bz/h79n

ElizabethSCraig's Twitterific: http://dld.bz/hEKG and a post on how to open multiple links in Firefox: http://dld.bz/hEKH @ClarissaDraper

Cryptomythology: Imaginary Myths for a Modern Life-- http://dld.bz/h78Z

A 3-Step Recovery Plan for Over-Writing-- http://dld.bz/h78X

What does Fantasy teach us? -- http://dld.bz/h787

Working as an Author and Illustrator Team Before Submission-- http://dld.bz/h785

Why Writers Need to Emerge From the Cocoon-- http://dld.bz/h78y

20 Questions to Ask When You're Struggling-- http://dld.bz/h78n @PauloCamposInk

8 Habits of Highly Excellent Bloggers-- http://dld.bz/h78e

Being Too Close to a Manuscript-- http://dld.bz/h77U

Staying within your world--and keeping it believable: http://dld.bz/h77w @annastanisz

An agent says that writers should enjoy their pre-published time more: http://dld.bz/h74v

Public Speaking Basics For Authors-- http://dld.bz/h727

A Better Way to Interview Characters-- http://dld.bz/h74m @CPatrickSchulze

Healthy Writers Are Happy Writers! 5 Fitness Tips for Writers-- http://dld.bz/h74g

Literary life today--including the new world of promo for authors (Telegraph): http://dld.bz/h73D

One Writer's Top 10 Poetry Picks : http://dld.bz/h73m

When to sell your writing. When to pawn it. http://dld.bz/h3Fv @catewoods

“Can I have your book?” When authors are asked for free copies of their books: http://dld.bz/h3E9 and http://dld.bz/h3Fh

Memorable Characters-- http://dld.bz/hq7m

Interested in freelance writing? Here's what you need to know, first: http://dld.bz/hAd7

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