I’ve been a tad slack on the Twitter front recently, but I like to keep a record of good writing links around. I still mine my old link round up articles when I need to remind myself about topics like structure, characterization, and editing. Which is about every week. Maybe one day I’ll make a directory of them. Like I need a new project.
Also I wrote a nifty computer program which lets me easily linkify my tweets — so it’s words or phrases in the tweet that become clickable, and not an ugly URL at the end. Shame not to use it. </geek hat>
So here are a few writing related tweets from the last week.
If you missed The Guardian’s fiction masterclass you can still get it on kindle:
New inflatableink blog post: Preparing a story for workshop: #writing
A (hero’s journey style) narrative structure cheat sheet for #nanowrimo: Alexandra Sokoloff
Colm Toibin in a seminar: “Whatever they did to you as a child will emerge in your sentences” #writing
New inflatableink post: make your story funnier by telling fewer jokes #writing
Salmon Rushdie to write TV SF series. I’m interested, but sceptical.
I’m proud to see this: Writers in Support of the Occupy Movement
Where do you draw the line? RT (A blog post by Catherine Noble) A traumatising book led me to blog about fiction boundaries – what are yours?
“Hell is other people’s books.” Paris Review – From the Cloakroom, at the Booker, Jonathan Gharraie
@Coburnicus OK, so the richest 1% take home 175% more after tax than 30 years ago. But perhaps they’re working twice as hard.
@Coburnicus Or perhaps it’s a cycle of subsidy and influence:
I love Pratchett – and the adorable pedantry of the diehard Pratchett fan. See comment 1 to AS Byatt’s Snuff review
