Sitemap - 2022 - Your Weekly Writing Exercise
Setting New Year's Goals for Your Writing--Tips, Ideas, and Why It's Fun and Helpful
Rest Breaks and Nonproductive Periods--How They Benefit a Book
When to Give Up on a Book Project--and How to Tell
Story Cycles and Essay Collections--How to Think about Order, Flow, and Transitions
What's the Point? Why the Purpose of Each Part of Your Writing Feels So Important to Your Reader
Vision versus Will--Why Both Are So Needed to Create a Good Book
Must-Have's of First and Last Chapters
Writing Tough Material? Five Tools to Create a Stand-Out "Container"
My Favs--A Short List of My Go-To Resources for Craft Skills, Inspiration, and Writing Community
The Submission Game--How to Keep Playing It without Getting Gut Punched
Some Favorite Writing Newsletters--and Sites to Explore--to Boost Your Creativity
Three Aspects to Create Healing via Writing--and an Exercise to Try This Week
Writing the Cross-Genre Book--Some Tips on How to Successfully Straddle Genres
Writing the Unsympathetic Narrator--So What If Your Readers Don't Like Them?
Your Narrator's False Belief--and How It Drives Your Story
The Art of Time in Your Book: Working More Consciously with Flashbacks, Backstory, and Pacing
Rockin' (or Jazzin' or Rappin') Out: Why a Playlist for Your Book Can Help You Write It
Am I Any Good? What to Do with That Question and How to Tell
How to Discover and Develop Your Own Writing Voice--Your Uniqueness Manifest on the Page
The Famous "Fifty Moves"--The Blunt Instrument's Invaluable Resource for Fiction Writers
Writing Out the Sadness and Anger--How to Get Strong Emotions on the Page Authentically
Creating Your Life So You Can Create Better Writing
John Truby and the British Baking Show: Why Images Are More Powerful Than Words
Expansion/Contraction--Test the Pacing Strength of Your Writing
One of My Favorite Writing Exercises--and a Few Reasons to Try It This Week
Researching Your Characters--Why It's Important to Know as Much as You Can about Them
Reading Voraciously--Why It Matters to Writers
Using the Short Form to Get to the Long Form--Powerful Exercises to Boost Your Creativity This Week
Writing as a Way of Healing Ourselves--via the "Radical Power of Personal Narrative"
Writing Journals, Notebooks, and the "Commonplace Book" as Useful Tools for Book Writers
The Joys and Challenges of Accountability--Figuring Out What Keeps You Writing
Where Do You Dream of Publishing Your Book? And What It Might Take
Finding the Best Writing Class or Conference for Your Book Right Now
A New Take on Storyboards for Your Book
My Love Affair with Scrivener--Software for Both Sides of the Brain
Query Letters That Actually Worked to Catch an Agent or Publisher
Narrative Perspectives--Which Will Serve Your Story Best?
A System for Tracking the "Internals" in Your Fiction or Memoir
Making Your Characters Real Individuals, Making Them Stand Out
Do You Need Quiet or Noise to Do Your Best Writing?
Word Count Goals for the Three Acts of Your Novel, Memoir, or Nonfiction Book
Working with Internal Monologue--When Narrators Think, Remember, or Talk with Themselves on the Page
What's Your Comfort Zone about Promoting Your Book? Thoughts on the Tricky Line We Authors Walk
Getting Your Work Out--How to Choose Your Best Avenue for the Time, Money, and Effort
Tricks to Keep Your Writing Hot Even When, Baby, It's COLD Outside