Posted on September 16, 2011 - by Nicole Humphrey Cook

Favorite Tweets For Writer’s – 9/16/2011

 “Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. ”
- Gene Fowler

Did you miss them? I haven’t done this post lately, because I got so busy with other things, and I sure didn’t mean to. Now I’m back and I’m on a roll. I have a huge list of great posts from the past few weeks to share. I might have to include some with next week’s post too. There’s so many great posts right now, and I definitely don’t want to overwhelm you.

Some of these links I may have re-tweeted throughout the week(s), but most are new.

On Agents/Editors/Querying:

• Will My Agent Rep a Different Genre
•  When An Agent Offers To Rep You
• Looking Around While Still Represented
• Should Agents Respond to All Queries
• Some Poetic Query Advice
• For Writers Whose Work Has Been Rejected: Read This
• Two Words That Can Change Your Writing Career

On Character Development & Dialog:

• Character Attributes
•  When It’s all Your MC’s Fault
• Red Herrings as Scapegoated Characters in Mystery Genre
• Voice Is Not Everything (but it is vitally important)
• The Uncensored Voice
• What Your Characters Favorite Fairy Tale Says about Them
• Kate Hart on Dialogue and Dialect
• 7 Ways to Develop Dazzling Dialogue
• Laying Some Smack Down on the Page

On Genre Specifics:

• The Art & Craft of Fantasy Writing
•  The Newest Trend in YA
• Then All Genres are Flawed
• How to Write Spiritual/New Age Fiction
• Researching the Historical Novel
• How To Mix Genres to Write Fresh Novels or Short Stories
• So You Wanna Write a Web Serial?

On Publishing:

• Should you use a Pseudonym  + Cool Fake Name Generator
• How To Build A List Of Readers For Your Next Book Launch
• Random Acts of Publicity
• Don’t Want to be a “One Book Wonder”
• New Ways to Sell Short Stories
• Reaching Out to Booksellers: A Publicists Advice

On Revision/Editing:

• Revision: It’s the Little Things
•  Self Editing 101
• Conflicting Advice on Revisions: What the Professionals Say

On Outlining & Plotting:

• Choosing the Best Outlining Method for You
•  Backstory: Where and How Much?
• Make Your Ending as Big as Possible
• Openers
• Cramped Middles
• 10 Tips Guaranteed to Rescue Your Story
• The Plot Thickens
• Non-Linear Writing: Focusing on Your Story’s DNA

On Social Networking/Blogging & Other Online Stuffs:

• Your Public Persona: Proudly Wearing the Author Badge
• Brilliance in 140 Characters
• 19 Ways to Get More Readers To Your Author’s Blog
• How Do You Get More Followers to Your Blog
• Twitter Etiquette and Marketing
• Social Media and Your Author Brand
• The Major League Baseball Guide to Pulling Out of a Blogging Slump
• How Social Media and YOU can Bring a Book to Life
• Why Copying Inspires Creativity?

On Writing in General:

• Your Novel’s Going Nowhere
•  Frustration: Your Novel’s Best Friend
• Read Like a Writer
• How To Write Fight Scenes With Alan Baxter
• To Trend or Not to Trend
• A Writer’s Main Objective
• Don’t Be Afraid to Write a Bad Book
• What Does It Really Take To Succeed
• Pushing the Mute Button on Writing Advice
• Writers: Finding Your Identity
• Cover Art is Like Chocolate
• Let’s Bore Reader’s to Death
• The Writing Process: From Idea to Print
• Is There a Template for Creativity
• Writing Lessons from a Blogvel
• What Authors Can Learn From the Best Sellers List
• Become a Better Writer By Practicing Gratitude

On Everything Else (including cool things, inspiration, creativity, free things and funny stuff):

• The High’s and Low’s of the Writing Life by Jody Hedlund
• Internal and External Inspirations
• Creativity? Train Your Brain to be an Idea-Generating Machine

Did I miss anything? I’m sure I did. Please leave a comment with a link so others can find it!

If you missed last weeks Favorite Tweets for Writers, find it here.

Added this week: If you are interested in getting your own posts included, the best way to get me to notice you is to follow my blog on GFC. I visit those sites daily looking for new articles to post on twitter. I primarily use Google Friend Connect but I’m looking for new methods, added soon. (send ideas my way, LOL)