Twitter Tuesday is a new feature on my blog. The first Tuesday of the month, I include all of the past month’s writing and editing tweets from the “field.” Read Twitter Tuesday 1 here.
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I was pretty active on Twitter in May, so I’ll be posting Twitter Tuesday #3 in two installments. Here are the tweets & retweets from May 1st–15th
May
#WeNeedDiverseBooks because empathy can't be taught. It's learned by listening to stories of people that aren't us.
— Lara Willard (@larathelark) May 3, 2014
The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop: Infographic http://t.co/TIdBPXECu1
— Lara Willard (@larathelark) May 7, 2014
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description. —CS Lewishttp://t.co/zGNyspzaP4#writingtips
— Lara Willard (@larathelark) May 13, 2014
From @WritersDigest, The 5 C's to make your novel thrilling:http://t.co/EjlyVuucS1#writingtips #amwriting
— Lara Willard (@larathelark) May 13, 2014
1/2 from ALONE W/ ALL THAT COULD HAPPEN by David Jauss:
"All good novelists have bad memories."—Graham Greene #writingtips
— Lara Willard (@larathelark) May 13, 2014
2/2 "What you remember comes out as journalism. What you forget goes into the compost of the imagination."
—Robert Olen Butler#writingtips— Lara Willard (@larathelark) May 13, 2014
"Syntax is like a landscape: if it's too uniform, our prose will look more like Nebraska than Switzerland." —Stephen Dobyns #writingtips
— Lara Willard (@larathelark) May 13, 2014
Don't keep leaving your character alone to think. Fiction is drama. Drama is acting and reacting. Passivity kills fiction. #writingtips
— Lara Willard (@larathelark) May 14, 2014
Too good to shorten to 140 characters. #writingtips from the late Carl Brandt— pic.twitter.com/Xw8QSFxC7N
— Lara Willard (@larathelark) May 14, 2014
Don't talk your story to death. Save your words for the paper.–A.B. Guthrie#Writingtips
Stop talking about your WIP—write it! #amwriting— Lara Willard (@larathelark) May 14, 2014
"Unlike expository writing, good fiction sticks to characters, their actions, speech & thought. It stays on scene."–A.B.Guthrie #writingtips
— Lara Willard (@larathelark) May 14, 2014
Retweets
Neil Gaiman on How Writers Learn and Why First Drafts Don’t Matter | http://t.co/iqsRKYgFcM #MorningCuppaCraft
— Loft Literary Center (@loftliterary) May 1, 2014
For your reading list: Five useful books for writers that aren’t directly about writing. http://t.co/vZjgqAQg6n
— Loft Literary Center (@loftliterary) May 4, 2014
Keep dialogue sharp with as much info in as short a breath as possible. Twitter's 140 character limit is a great training tool #writingtips
— Kevin Cullen (@ColorTheBooks) May 6, 2014
.@ColorTheBooks Totally! "Breath units" are important to consider when establishing voice, in dialogue & in narration. #writingtips
— Lara Willard (@larathelark) May 6, 2014
"Sometimes you need to write a lot just to find out what it is you are really writing…"http://t.co/28kJ5CZyOc#writing #writingtips
— Jon Winokur (@AdviceToWriters) May 7, 2014
If you tell me, it’s an essay. If you show me, it’s a story.
BARBARA GREENE#fiction #literature #writing— Jon Winokur (@AdviceToWriters) May 8, 2014
“When you catch an adjective, kill it…”http://t.co/4vHqTSMSGu#grammar #amwriting #writing #writingtips pic.twitter.com/9f13lsouMF
— Jon Winokur (@AdviceToWriters) May 8, 2014
The thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a great slab of prose at the start.
P.G. WODEHOUSE#writing— Jon Winokur (@AdviceToWriters) May 10, 2014
"Before you query agents get a professional critique…”http://t.co/eJskuRLAff#amwriting #writing #writingtips
— Jon Winokur (@AdviceToWriters) May 10, 2014
A good editor is someone who knows what your problem is.
ELMORE LEONARD#amwriting #writing #writingtips— Jon Winokur (@AdviceToWriters) May 11, 2014
You become a good writer just as you become a good carpenter: by planing down your sentences.
ANATOLE FRANCE#amwriting #writing— Jon Winokur (@AdviceToWriters) May 12, 2014
Writers: do remember that unlike most #litmags we actively read submissions during the summer http://t.co/qPse2C2FWQ
— The Missouri Review (@Missouri_Review) May 12, 2014
Authors before you query us, know if your debut novel is longer than 95,000 words, it will be a hard sell. #askagent http://t.co/0uR3NrbbKi
— KC&A Literary Agency (@K_C_Associates) March 3, 2014
The sweet spot for debut novels would be 80,000 words but a range from 70-95,000 is okay. @TheOnlyATN #pubtip #askagent
— KC&A Literary Agency (@K_C_Associates) March 4, 2014
Rejection letter from the 1920's. pic.twitter.com/GFUiz1a89Y
— Weird Tales (@weirdtales) March 9, 2014
#writers – learn more about being on submission with debut novelist Mary Elizabeth Summer: http://t.co/Z29UOR07UR
— Mindy McGinnis (@MindyMcGinnis) May 13, 2014
Want a website that has all agent/editor #mswl in one place? Add http://t.co/0nOropyoMf to your bookmarks. #querytip #pubtip
— Carly Watters (@carlywatters) May 11, 2014
“The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line.” —Billy Collins http://t.co/MdBbr4zGBv
— The Paris Review (@parisreview) May 15, 2014
ABDCE for writers via @ANNELAMOTT: action, background, development, climax, ending #cltspj #cltmedia #writingtips
— Hannah Levinson (@djhannimal) May 14, 2014
#writers don't forget about #writingcontests from #litmags @vallummag & The MacGuffin + New American Press & more: http://t.co/9Ps86Wr9V5
— New Pages (@newpages) May 15, 2014
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