Where Do You Want Your Story (or Career) to Go?

Featureless stone-covered expanse with text: Finding the Path to Our Goal

Endless obstacles can make it hard to see the path to reach our goals. What can we do when faced with a murky path to our goal?

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How to Bridge the Gap in Your Story’s Momentum

Apple on books with text: Deepen Your Craft with Resident Writing Coach Jami Gold (at Writers Helping Writers)

It’s time for another post as a Resident Writing Coach over at Writers Helping Writers, and this time we’re talking about bridging conflict.

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How Can We Make Our Protagonist More Proactive?

Cat sleeping on white background with text: How Can We Make Our Characters More Proactive?

Why is it important for characters to be active or proactive rather than reactive or passive? How can we fix a passive protagonist?

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Story Endings: How to Write a Strong Resolution

Fireworks reflecting over water with text: What Makes a Finale Great?

Our story’s opening is important for gaining readers, but our story’s ending is what sells readers on our next book. What makes a story resolution great?

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Holiday Giveaways and Workshop News!

I’ve partnered up with Writers Helping Writers to bring you a PRIZE-PACKED Advent Calendar for Writers—and you could win one of my workshops!

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Developing a Beat Sheet into an Outline — Guest: Marty C. Lee

White square outline on black with text: Discovering the Outline of Our Story

To discover the best drafting process for us, we might need to experiment.
Today, Marty C. Lee shares how she develops story beats into a chapter-by-chapter outline.

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NaNoWriMo Is Coming…Are You Ready?

This time of year, writers try to get their story idea into shape before the first of November. Here’s some help to get your planning off on the right foot with NaNoWriMo.

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