Blog – Erin

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Weekly tips, stories and inspiration for your writing journey.


  • a book of poems with white words on black pages to illustrate the power of poetry to help us during dark times.

    Use This Exercise to Harness the Power of Poetry

    When life gets tough, or we need a break from our projects, we can use this exercise to harness the power of poetry and play with words.

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  • Photo of cloud-covered eclipse as a reminder to keep the faith in your murky writing projects

    1 Question to Help You Keep the Faith In Your Writing Projects

    When the writing gets murky or you feel uncertain, use this question to keep the faith in your writing projects.

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  • Photo of an eclipse to represent exhaustion and the need to declutter your mind.

    3 Essential Questions to Declutter Your Mind

    While there are stages in the editorial process that happen in your head, there are three somatic edits every project should go through.

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  • Traffic sign that reads too busy to illustrate the struggle to identify what's important.

    Can’t Identify What’s Important? Ask These 4 Questions.

    While there are stages in the editorial process that happen in your head, there are three somatic edits every project should go through.

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  • photo of a fluffy calico cat with a white face and chest to illustrate the three somatic edits every project should go through.

    3 Somatic Edits that Will Ensure Your Writing Rings True

    While there are stages in the editorial process that happen in your head, there are three somatic edits every project should go through.

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  • A fern growing in the cracks in a building to illustrate the importance of embracing your growth edges.

    Embracing Your Growth Edges: 6 Tips

    Growth edges are all around us. To navigate them well, we must learn to embrace the emotions associated with our changes in perception.

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  • a group of people looking at a chart with sticky notes around it to illustrate the research needed for a hybrid memoir.

    Hybrid Memoir Research: 3 Strategies

    Writing a hybrid memoirs requires a lot of research. Here are 3 ways to tackle this research and incorporate it into your project.

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  • photo of a painted stone with the following written in blue letters "for those who've loved and loss" to illustrate the power of writing about grief.

    The #1 Way to Write About Grief

    When grief overtakes us it can feel so big, but to write about it well we need to find, write, and celebrate the small moments.

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  • A black and white photo of a swan on still lake to show what it means to find stillness.

    The Easiest Way To Find Stillness

    Sometimes the easiest way to find stillness is let go of the things you think you’re supposed to do and give yourself a break.

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  • A screenshot of the YouTube app to illustrate the trick I use to teach my students how to show emotions in their writing.

    Learn to Show Emotions with 1 Simple Trick

    To write with greater freedom, you must identify and understand your rules around emotions, and then be willing to revise them.

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  • A golden buddha head with two faces, one laughing, one blank to. illustrate our rules around emotions

    Revising Your Rules Around Emotions

    To write with greater freedom, you must identify and understand your rules around emotions, and then be willing to revise them.

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  • A woman with black hair and black dress with an open back dancing with a man with short black hair and a black suit to illustrate the dance of emotion regulation.

    5 Emotion Regulation Strategies That Improve Character Development

    To build better characters, use these five emotion regulation strategies to connect with yourself.

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