Sitemap - 2024 - Your Weekly Writing Exercise
When Your Persistence Disappears
Happy Holidays and Some Writerly Gift Ideas
First Sunday Q&A: Should This Person Even Be in My Story?
Finding the Pivot in All the Problems
Create Pressure to Release Pressure
First Sunday Q&A: Working with a Structural Analysis Chart
Writing Shorter to Keep Going Longer
Secondary Characters Can Make or Break a Story
First Sunday Q&A: Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew on Sustainable Writing Practice
Doesn't Everybody Need Better Structure in Their Writing?
Secrets of a Successful First Chapter
Creating a Sustainable Writing Practice
Three Favorite Techniques to Foster Meandering
What Do You Love Most about Your Writing? Learn How to Talk about It!
First Sunday Q&A: Learning to Trust Your Writing Community
How Much of Your Plot Do You Need to Know Ahead of Time?
Design the Perfect Writing Space (for You)
How to Plan Your Book Launch Event
Raising the Stakes: How to Amp Up Your Story's External Conflict
First Sunday Q&A: The Perils of Too Much--or Not Enough--Research
Two Kinds of Rejuvenation for the Creative Life
Organizing Your Writing Life: Practice versus Perfect
Writing about Food: Beyond Taste into Meaning
Organizing the Writing Life: Storage Systems
First Sunday Q&A: How I Navigated the Creative Slog
The Nonlinear Appeal of the Mosaic Mind
Organizing Your Writing Life: Tools
Why It's Good to Stop When It's Going Good
How to Get Your Characters to Reveal More
First Sunday Q&A: The Moral Lines We Cross in Our Creative Lives
Working with the Magic of Threes
Podcasts as the "New" Book Promotion Tool
What Does “Well-Published” Mean to You?
First Sunday Q&A: Sometimes You Just Have to Quit (to Get a Second Chance)
Renegotiate Your Agreement with Time
Ingredients for a Happy Book Launch
It's Here! A Special Birthday Gift for You Lovely Subscribers
Decision-Making 101: Keep It Creative But Effective
You're Invited: Join Me on Sunday, April 21, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern, for My Book Launch on Zoom!
Finding the Rhythm of Conflict
First Sunday Q&A: Getting Endorsements and Reviews for Your Book
Writing Your Last Chapter First
Recognizing Your Turning Points: Where Are You on the Journey?
The Benefit of Making Your Characters Sick
How I Became a Substack Bestseller
First Sunday Q&A: Complex and Woven Structures for Books
Escape to Paradise--Find Trouble!
Delights (and Risks!) of Writing a Series
Weaving a More Complex--and Interesting--Story
Getting Emotional Distance: Using Lists to Help Your Writing Practice
First Sunday Q&A: Working with Keywords to Attract Your Ideal Readers
Creating a Mood Board for Your Book
Writing Opposites: Bad Identity, Good Identity
First Sunday Q&A: Sometimes You Just Have to Quit (to Get a Second Chance)
The Pre-order Machine and What I've Learned about Its Place in Publishing
Ta-Da! My New Novel and Its Beautiful Cover
First Sunday Q &A: Voice! Repeating Themes in Your Writing--How They Foster Your Unique Voice