Story Planning: Leaving Our Options Open
How detailed is too detailed when it comes to planning our story? What can we can learn about leaving our options open as we draft our story?
Pin ItThe Importance of Balance in Our Lives
Finding a good work-life-writing balance is a never-ending struggle. Despite the difficulty, we need to pursue balance or suffer in multiple ways.
Pin ItBranding 101: Defining Our Brand
In our writing career, tangible lessons are often easier to learn, but branding can be intangible. How can we use tangible ideas to define our brand?
Pin ItThe Pressure to Write: You Do You
Stories about super-productive authors can make us doubt ourselves or think we’re not doing enough, but we shouldn’t worry about measuring up to impossible standards.
Pin ItPantser vs. Plotter vs. Something in Between
To hear some authors talk, we’d think there are strict plotters and strict pantsers and nothing in between, but there’s really no end to the mix of approaches we can use in our drafting.
Pin ItPitching Our Story: Insights from Movie Trailers
When pitching our story, we might struggle with figuring out which elements to focus on. How do we decide what to emphasize in our pitch?
Pin ItSelf-Publishing and Entrepreneurship
In many ways, a writing career has a lot in common with being an entrepreneur. Here are 6 entrepreneurship questions to apply to our writing career.
Pin ItWhat’s Your Non-Fiction Voice?
Even if we usually write fiction, we’ll likely write non-fiction sometimes. And when our fiction voice isn’t appropriate, we’ll need to develop a different style for non-fiction.
Pin ItRevise vs. Start New: Which Is Better When We’re Stuck?
Ever hear the tip: Don’t let yourself get stuck on a single story? How can we know whether to listen or ignore that advice?
Pin ItWriting Prompts: Helpful? Or a Waste of Time? — Guest: Savannah Cordova
Writing prompts can help with inspiration or creativity, or distract us from the writing we’re “supposed to” do. How can we make them more helpful to us?
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