7 Questions to Protect Your Labors of Love
Don’t want to sabotage your labors of love? Here’s how.
Inspiration
Understand Your Life’s Midpoints to Improve Your Story
The midpoints in your life tell you who you are. Understand them and you’ll understand the story you’re trying to tell.
2 Strategies for Launching Your Story’s Emotional Plot
To launch a story, you must design a strong hook and build investment in your story’s emotional plot.
Mastering Your Character’s Walk: 1 Unique Way To Improve Your WIP
Wondering how you can bolster your character development? Apply empathy to your characters.
Build Your Empathy to Improve Your Characters
Wondering how you can bolster your character development? Apply empathy to your characters.
3 Reasons Writers Have a Fear of Success
Worried your fear of success will sabotage your projects? Here’s your antidote.
3 Ways to Beat Summer Writing Anxiety
Summer writing anxiety is real but it doesn’t have to derail your writing projects.
Worried Perfectionism Is Holding You back? Learn to Harness It, Not Hate It
If you’re scared perfectionism is holding you back, change the way you see it.
Identifying Your Book’s Audience: 3 Authors Show You How
Need to identify your book’s audience. Learn how 3 authors figured this out.
Pursuing Your Writing Dreams: Your Number 1 Skill
It’s possible to give up while still pursuing your writing dreams. Here’s how.
How to Minimize Flashbacks in Your Writing: 4 New Ways
How to minimize flashbacks in your writing by acting “as if” instead.
To Build Writing Resiliency Intentionally Choose Your Focus
Writing resiliency is a muscle you’ll need to build and flex throughout your writing life. Here are five strategies that will help you do this.
Here’s How to Use Ross Gay’s Strategies to Write Better Prose
To write better prose, you need to learn more than craft strategies. Sometimes, it’s about how you see the world.
Struggling to write? Use Cal Newport’s Deep Work to beat distraction
Struggling to write? Cal Newport’s Deep Work can restore your sense of focus.
Didn’t attend the 2023 AWP Conference? Here are a few things you missed.
Missed the 2023 AWP Conference? Check out the highlights of my conference experience.
Study of Julia Cameron’s Seeking Wisdom: The relationship between creativity and spirituality
In chapter five of Julia Cameron’s seeking wisdom, she answers her books’ most important question: what’s the relationship between creativity and spirituality?
Study of Julia Cameron’s Seeking Wisdom: How prayers of praise and looking for miracles can increase your creative grit
In Julia Cameron’s Seeking Wisdom, her prayers of praise can not only increase your creative grit, they can help you trust the creative process.
Study of Julia Cameron’s Seeking Wisdom: Bust through your sense of writing loneliness by practicing Julia’s Prayer of Gratitude.
The writing life can be lonely when all we do is show up to our writing desks. Julia Cameron’s prayer of gratitude can strengthen the connections you have to Creativity and those who support you.
Need Some Writing Assistance? Julia Cameron’s Prayer of Petition Might Help.
Many of us have a tortured relationship with Creativity. With Julia Cameron’s help, and a willingness to see things differently, you can turn that relationship into a benevolent one.