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Overcoming Perfectionism
We’re told that perfectionism is a good thing. We’re told it’s a trait to brag about when we’re in a job interview to showcase just how hardworking and detail-oriented we are. We’ve [...]
Healing From Burnout
Burnout sucks. It’s an unrelenting exhaustion that has you feeling completely zapped of energy. Your creativity, which has been running on fumes for miles, has officially petered out in the middle of [...]
Toxic positivity in your writing life
Toxic positivity is crippling your writing life. There's a belief becoming more pervasive in the writing community that you must always stay positive and never let anything negative affect you or [...]
Feedback should NEVER feel like this
You did it. You sent pages off to your writing group or critique partner or beta reader... and they finally responded. You're both terrified and excited to see what they thought. [...]
6 Tips for NaNoWriMo Success
It’s almost November which means it’s almost time for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo or NaNo for short)! NaNoWriMo is a challenge to write 50,000 words during the month of November (roughly [...]
You Don’t Need an MFA to Write a Great Book
You want to tell an amazing story, one that grips the hearts of your readers. You dream of the day you can hold your book in hand and finally share it with [...]
Don’t Write Your Book Alone
A few years ago, I learned a hard lesson about writing alone. As an introvert, I tend to keep my words close to the chest until they feel “ready” to share [...]
What to Do When ‘Life Happens’
I hate losing momentum in my writing, so much so that I obsessively plan to prevent it. Today I'm going to share some tips for what to do when life happens [...]
6 Tips for Getting Better Feedback
Writing can feel like a solitary act which you must struggle through, hunched over at your computer desk, entirely alone. This is far from the truth. In fact, outside [...]
Can you be ambitious and anti-hustle?
Growing up, I was taught that being ambitious meant hustling. In my mind, hustling became synonymous to working hard. Ambitious meant you wanted to achieve big goals and accomplish big things. [...]
Is it worth making art when the world is falling apart?
As this article is being written, there’s so much going on— and has been going on—in the world. Meta illegally scraping books for AI, the end of the ceasefire in Palestine, and [...]
Writing What Matters: Starting with your “Why”
Writing a book is really difficult. It takes heart, energy, and lots of time. It's a process of personal creation that often takes deep courage to invite critique into, even when we [...]
Setting Goals Free From Shame
With another year coming to a close, it is that time once again where our social media feeds peddle hustle-culture narratives driving us to set ambitious writing goals and lofty word counts.It [...]
Using reaction progressions to “show” on the page
Reaction progressions are a four part formula based on the natural order of how humans respond to stimuli. Using this chain of responses as a tool will help make it easier for you to “show” your character’s responses effectively and deepen the impact of your prose.
Tips For Getting Back Into Writing After a Break
We’ve all been there before. Something comes up in our life, we stop writing, and when we’re finally [...]
Finding Your Ideal Reader (and why it’s important!)
When you’re daydreaming about your book being in your readers’ hands, who do you envision holding it? Who [...]
