Ready to scrap a writing project? Read this first.
It’s tempting to abandon your work when you’re frustrated and overwhelmed. But trashing your projects is like trashing yourself. Instead, you need to pivot.
It’s tempting to abandon your work when you’re frustrated and overwhelmed. But trashing your projects is like trashing yourself. Instead, you need to pivot.
Creative emptiness and fatigue trigger my “get cracking” tendencies, that part of me that believes worthiness is about getting things done.
Yesterday was the first day of NaNoWriMo. While there are a ton of strategies you can employ, they’ll be useless if you don’t believe in yourself.
For the uninitiated, NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write a 50,000-word novel (or memoir) draft. But is it right for you?
Athena is a modern-day renaissance woman who is multi-talented, curious, and prolific. Within six months of our meeting, her essay The Incredible Shrinking Woman.
When we worked together, Corie Adjmi’s goal was to attract a traditional publisher, but along the way she changed her mind. Look at what she’s accomplished.
Ashleigh Renard is a memoirist who rehabbed a shabby marriage and our perceptions of what self-publish writers can accomplish.
After publishing a viral essay, Laura Cathcart Robbins author platform exploded. With her help, yours can too.
For the past six months, I’ve told you and every writer I know to buy Allison’s new book Seven Drafts. Now you finally can.
The secret to building an effective author platform is something you might have overlooked.
While social media can help you increase your author platform, bylines, blogs, and newsletters can help you build a fanbase that might promote your work.
All writers need a virtual presence. Let’s talk about how you can create an online platform.
If you’ve told one person you’re a writer, you have an author platform. Now ask yourself are how big do you want it to be, and how you’ll grow it?
A great author platform is broad in scope and leverages your strengths. It should be fun to work on and help you authentically engage with other people.
In Save the Cat! Blake Snyder discusses the three-act structure and shares his invaluable beat sheet where he maps out the moments every story needs.
A market-tested logline proves you have a story, but the hero is what makes the story work better. Once you know who this person is, go primal.
Learning to craft a logline or elevator pitch is an important skill all writers must learn. Summarizing your work will help you understand your story and spend less time awkwardly rambling to fellow writers and agents.
Ann Lamott says earth is a forgiveness school. If she’s right, then painful events are our allies. We can learn from them and then rewrite their outcomes.
Being told our work is less than stellar ocause a spike in our tactical avoidance maneuvers. But there’s a way to break the cycle.
Here’s another invitation: share your work with other people. It will bring you joy and connection with those who need your stories.