Sitemap - 2020 - Your Weekly Writing Exercise
Writing about Tough Subjects: Award-Winning Debut Memoirist Shares Her Process
What's at Stake? How to Ratchet Up the (Necessary) Tension in Your Book
Planning a Brighter New Year for Your Writing Life--Are You Ready to Look Ahead?
Fostering Gratitude for Your Writing in Uncertain Times
Wordsmithing the Heck out of Your Revision--Ten Steps to Make It Shine
How to Send a Manuscript to an Agent--and What to Expect Once You Do
Writing Real-Life Characters: How to Get to Know the People You Already Know
Editing-Writing-Storyboard Dance--When to Do Each One to Create the Best Book
When Your Characters Fade from the Page--Tips to Find Out Where and How to Revive Them
Poets and Writers New List of "Best Writing Books"--and My Personal Favs
Submitting to Contests: Worth It or Waste of Money and Time?
When Your Book Has a Mission--How Do You Keep the Story Personal and Engaging?
Character Names: How to Find the Ones That Feel Just Right
How Long Can You Go? Word Count Limit for First Books
Using the Storyboard for Short Pieces as Well as Long
Dealing with the Emotions of Writing Tough Memories
Honing Your Dialogue-Writing Skills--And Learning When Not to Use It
What Dialogue Can Do for Your Book--And What It Should Never Try to Do
Emotions: Bringing Them to the Page through Gestures, Movement, Facial Expressions, and More
Strictly Accurate Memoir? True-Life Novel? How Close to the Line Do You Ride?
Memoir's Primary Argument--How to Make Sure Your Memoir Has Universal Meaning
Rest Breaks for Creative Artists--How to Get Your Mojo Back
Anger and Grief and Their Place in Writing (an Actual Technique I've Used)
Jennifer Egan and Susan Choi on Productivity (or Lack of) during a Pandemic
Writing through Anxiety--Write On! Video Featuring Author Shelby Kenney-Lang
Unexpected "Container" in an Award-Winning Novel: An Interview with Ginger Eager
Using the Enneagram's 9 Personality Types to Create Vivid Characters in Fiction and Memoir
Creative Resistance to Hard Times--Guest Blog by Author Ellen Prentiss Campbell
Refining Your Writing Space for Sheltering at Home
Online Connection--How to Find Your Virtual Writing Tribe While Sheltering at Home
Making Time for Writing When You Have Nothing to Do
Three Practices to Keep Creatively Healthy Right Now
Three Different Storyboards to Map Your Book's Structure
Writing in Uncertain Times--A Few Thoughts on the Gift of a Writing Practice Right Now
Interview Your Characters: Character Lists Coax Them Out of Hiding
Are We There Yet? How to Tell When Your Book Is Really Done
Reading Your Writing Aloud--How It Gives You the Necessary Distance for Revision
Staying Authentic with Your Intentions as a Writer--Not Always Easy?
Really Good Creative Writing Prompts--for Exercising Your Inner Author
Setting Writing Goals for the New Year: Three Different Approaches
Too Slow? Too Fast? How Are You Communicating? (And How to Tell When Your Pacing Is Off)
How to Help Your Manuscript Submission Stand Out--Being Part of a "Discourse Community"
A Cool Character-Building Exercise from Comic-Artist Lynda Barry
Best-Selling Children's Book Author Shares How He Busted Tradition and Won Anyway