Links, Links, Beautiful Links …
Although I’ve been on Twitter for a while now, I haven’t really BEEN on Twitter. The attraction is definitely there, but juggling social media is a skill I’m still dragging around on the learning curve. And so, if like me, you’re looking to get the most mileage for all your wise and wonderful tweets, you’ve gotta love these Hashtags for Writers, from Julie Jordan’s Blog, A Place for Writers.
Did someone say Pinterest? Yeah, lots of people actually. I admit I didn’t have much of a clue about what was going on with this, and I haven’t yet gotten around to pursuing an invitation (See above, I’m still getting my head into Hashtags!). But, GALLEYCAT, had the best information I’ve yet come across in an excellent post Pinterest Tips for Writers
Word is that if you’re considering uploading your masterpiece as a Kindle book, the automatic Kindle formatter shouldn’t necessarily be trusted. ( Although I don’t say this from personal experience, because I haven’t done it – yet.) Not that Amazon hasn’t made it easy, but apparently it doesn’t work quite as smoothly as it should. Not to worry, Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of The Frugal Book Promoter, offered this helpful information on her blog this week, Learning More About Formatting for Kindle and New Features.
Although this isn’t a new-this-week post, it’s one of my favorites from Kristen Lamb. (Favorite, as in I read it time and again to remind myself what I’m doing.) So give yourself a gift and revisit this treasure of a post when you have a moment Aspiring is for pansies-Tough Love & Being a Writer
And quite possibly my favorite post of the week, is this one by author Kathrine Magendie: Monday Classroom: Strengthening our Manuscripts. Kats Picky Sh*t . Not only does Kat offer great editing advice for those of us in the process or remudding out words, but her presentation is just … well have a look, you’ll see what I mean.
That’s it for this week, but you know the drill, please don’t hesitate to share your own favorite links below 🙂
Barbara Forte Abate 
These are great links, Barbara! Thanks for finding (and sharing)!
Thanks Laird. The problem with great links (and I know I don’t have to tell you this) is it’s too easy to get caught up reading and then not writing!
Okay so there’s at least two more blogs I’m checking out today.
Thanks!
Liv
And just today, over the course of the afternoon, I landed on at least a dozen more terrific blogs. So, much wonderful content. It’s delicious 🙂
Hi Barbara *smiling* Love the blog! *stopping to “like” it*
Thank you for linking to me – teehehee – I feel honored.
And now I have some links to look through – yay! because I don’t have time to do all my linky love today – lawd! *chicken with its head cut off – and yes I have seen this and it scared me for life* 😀
Hey Kat. Oh shoot, if I’d of known you were coming by I would’ve cleaned the place up a bit 😀
Not only did I love that post of your’s (Kat’s Picky S*it — too funny!), but I’ve been recalling every one of those S*itty grammer glitches you mentioned this week as I’m striving to edit the Ugly from my WIP.
Oh yes, and thank you for “liking!”
So glad you highlighted these posts. Been so busy, lost track of some of these that I wanted to revisit. Great idea. I will have to keep a list like this as I read forward.
Thank you, Cora. I know what you mean. I’m still playing catch-up with all the posts I’ve wanted to read this week, but had to put on hold until now.
These look like great links, Barbara. Curse you (in the nicest possible way)! Looks like I’m going down the rabbit hole…
… and if you do, you’ll find me down there already 🙂
Barbara I really appreciated that Hashtag link thank you – I was after one of those just the other day. Interesting the WANA’s aren’t on it (yet).
I’m happy to know the Hashtag link is helpful to you. I was so excited to come across it myself, but you’re so right, about the missing WANA’s! I do wonder …