Today's article is a guest post by story and Enneagram expert Jeff Lyons of StoryGeeks.com. His article touches on a often overlooked aspect of story development that many writers miss and their...
In the third and final session of my interview series with Enneagram and story development expert Jeff Lyons (recordings no longer available), we talked about "Bridging the Gap from Motivation to...
In the second class of my interview series with Enneagram and story development expert Jeff Lyons (recordings no longer available), we talked about "The Critical Importance of Premise Line...
In the first class of my interview series with Enneagram and story development expert Jeff Lyons (recordings no longer available), we talked about "The Secrets of the Enneagram Most Writers Are...
I've been a follower of the Enneagram since 1998. The Enneagram is a powerful system that is highly useful for understanding your personality and inner motivations. My work colleague told me about...
One of the cleverest smokescreens in writing is creative apathy. This is the point with a project where you suddenly get bored or lose interest in your writing. It tends to crop up at key stages in...
In my writing community, one of the things writers commonly bring up as a question is how to reward themselves for meeting their writing goals. We have a list of questions we answer on our site,...
Writers who tend to join my writing community — and get the most out of it — often have both a deep call to write (whether they're doing it consistently or not) and a specific project they want to...
Something that's helped me when taking on a longer writing project is understanding the natural ups and downs of the writing process. Now when I know I'm in an "up" or a "down", I don't take either...