Content Spotlight: Red Flag: A "traditional" publisher asking authors for a AU$6,000 "loan"? Writer Beware's Victoria Strauss rounds up author complaints about Australian children's publisher Starfish Bay Publishing. writerbeware.blog/author-com… #WritingCommunity #kidlit #publishing

"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it." — Mark Twain #AmEditing #WritingAdvice

"The first draft isn't about getting it right, it's about getting it done." — Ava Jae #AmWriting #WritingAdvice

Content Spotlight: How do you know your book is really done? Kathleen McCleary's checklist: a gripping opening, a big arc, plugged holes and taut tension. At @WriterUnboxed. writerunboxed.com/are-we-the… #amediting #amwriting #WritingTips

Simple Rules for Writers #10: Trust the reader to connect two dots without you drawing the line between them. #AmWriting #AmEditing

"The hard part about a novel is to finish it." — Ernest Hemingway #WriterWednesday #WritingAdvice

"First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!" — Ray Bradbury #WriterWednesday #WritingAdvice

Content Spotlight: Pantser or plotter? Michelle Barker says the novel that breaks you may need both, and explains why flexibility matters, at Writers Helping Writers. writershelpingwriters.net/fl… #amwriting #WritingTips #WritingCommunity

Simple Rules for Writers #9: Finish the draft before you polish chapter one. You can't revise a book that doesn't exist yet. #WriterWednesday #AmWriting

"There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story." — Frank Herbert #WritingAdvice #AmWriting

"A writer is someone who pays attention to the world — a writer is a professional observer." — Susan Sontag #WritingAdvice #AmWriting

Content Spotlight: Write small to write big. Book coach Miranda Keskes on how writing flash fiction can sharpen your novel, a guest post at Jane Friedman's site. janefriedman.com/how-writing… #amwriting #WritingTips #flashfiction

Simple Rules for Writers #8: Name the specific thing. "A 2009 Corolla with a cracked windshield" does more work than "a car." #AmEditing #AmWriting

"If you wou'd not be forgotten As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing." — Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1738) #WritingAdvice

"The author and the reader 'know' each other; they meet on the bridge of words." — Madeleine L'Engle #WritingAdvice #AmWriting

Simple Rules for Writers #7: Give your villain a good reason. If they think they're the hero of their own story, readers believe them. #AmWriting #WritingAdvice

Content Spotlight: Want to write an impossible crime? @Writers_Write on how to build a locked-room mystery that keeps readers guessing until the final reveal. writerswrite.co.za/how-to-wr… #amwriting #mystery #WritingTips

"You must be prepared to work always without applause." — Ernest Hemingway #WritingAdvice #AmWriting

Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's. —Stephen King #AmWriting #WritingAdvice

Content Spotlight: Get paid to write about writing. @writersweekly lists 15 markets that pay for articles on craft, freelancing and publishing. writersweekly.com/marketing-… #WritingCommunity #freelancewriting #amwriting