This week I've written a piece for the Final Draft blog about thriving while receiving feedback, which can often be emotionally perilous. I hope you find it helpful. “You are not your idea, and if...
Last week I wrote a piece for the Final Draft blog about 7 creative strategies to survive distance learning AND keep writing this fall. Like many parents, school is majorly on my mind right now, so...
This week I wrote a piece for the Final Draft blog about mindset perspectives to help us all stay motivated to write, even with everything that's going on in the world (and at home!). I've been...
We're living through an unprecedented event in our modern era. Life has changed, radically, in what felt like over night. The word "unprecedented" feels wholly inadequate, honestly. Surreal? Unholy?...
I've just finished reading Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done* by Jon Acuff. It's a delightfully irreverent book packed with useful insights -- sometimes counterintuitive -- about how and why we...
There are many stages of writing. There are the practical stages -- inspiration, idea, concept, development, outlining, drafting, revising, editing, polishing, and proofing. There are the emotional...
Let's talk about writing. And overwhelm. First, a story. When I was a kid, my parents used to take us on high Sierra backpacking trips. They were hard. We're talking about high-altitude, have to...
It's mid-January. If you "won" NaNoWriMo, you'll have 50,000 words of raw material for a new novel. If you didn't make it to the 50k mark, you'll still have pages to work with. But now what? Where...
It's time for another installment of our "Author Insights" series. In this series, I'm introducing you to writers who've taken their writing all the way to the finish line of publication, and they...
It's time for another installment of our "Author Insights" series. In this series, I'm introducing you to writers who've taken their writing all the way to the finish line of publication, and they...
Last week I shared Part I of this post about the many faces of procrastination, and the underlying reasons it shows up. It's not necessarily "just" writer's block or laziness, which are the common...