Sitemap - 2014 - Your Weekly Writing Exercise
Imagining Your Finished Book--A Three-Part (and Very Encouraging!) Brainstorming Exercise
Take a Break from Words: How Image Boards Help Your Writing
Unexpected Therapy: Need to Get Over It? Write about It!
A Letter to Your Inner Critic: How to Stop the Invisible Sabotage to Your Creativity
Reflecting Surfaces: Using the “Landscape” to Make Character Come Alive
Character Cards--A Cool Way to Enhance Your Storyboard (and Story!)
Self-Promotion versus Creating Community--Where Is the Line for You?
Self-Publishing: No Longer Just the "Vanity" Option for Today's First-Time Authors
Learning versus Performing Mode: How Each Influences Your Writing Right Now
Getting Started Again: Writers' Tips for When You Get Stuck
When You're Making Radical Manuscript Changes: A Helpful Technique for Writers
Placing Backstory: When It Helps and When It Hinders
Teaching Yourself to Write Better Dialogue: Three Steps That Will Make All the Difference
Importance of Action: Do You Have Enough Happening?
How Chapters Are Built--What to Include, What to Skip, and How to Know If You Actually Have One
Taking Back Control of What We Write--and Read: Moving Past Our Training and Culture
Crafting Pathways in Your Book: Internal Conflict, External Conflict, and How They Form a Story
When Is It Time to Send Out Your Manuscript? How to Be Smart about Next Steps
Working with Unexpected Character Questions: Finding Your Character's (or Narrator's) Inner Story
Pros and Cons of Feedback on Your Writing: Finding Out What You REALLY Need (and Getting It)
Raise the Emotional Stakes: Strengthening Alchemy between Setting, Character, and Conflict
Emotional Gateways--How They Help You Write and Revise Your Book
Resources for Writing a Potent "Inner Story" in Your Book
How to Keep Your Writing in Your Over-the-Top Busy Life: Helpful Techniques from the Experts
Wisdom from Janet Burroway, Author of Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft
Finding the Edges: The Art of Theme and Voice in Fiction and Memoir
Organizing Your Book: Great Tips on What to Save, How to File It to Find It, and More!
Writing about Tough Topics: When It Gets Personal in Your Story, How Do You Keep Going?
How a Food Journalist Becomes a Book Writer: The Award-Winning Journey of Steve Hoffman
What's Keeping You Accountable to Your Writing?
"Did I Write That?!" What Happens to Your Writing as You Grow in Skill
Personal History: Where We Come From and How It Informs Our Writing
Winter Doldrums? Ten Fun Exercises to Get Going on Your Writing Again!
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How Writers Reveal a Character through "Container"--The Environment of a Story
Patterns of Change--How Do You Create Strong Conflict in Your Fiction or Memoir?
Making Your Own Book Trailer--Guest Blog by Authors Juliann Rich and Aren Sabers