Overwhelmed? Break Down Tasks for Writing and Life — Guest: Augustina Van Hoven
If we’re overwhelmed, that stress isn’t good for our creativity. Let’s explore how to break tasks into manageable chunks—for writing and for our life.
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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?
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Pantser 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.
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Writing 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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The Pros and Cons of Experimenting
The processes that worked on our last story might not work on our next one, but we want to think about the pros and cons before experimenting.
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Making a Big Revision? Stitching Our Story’s Rips Together
It’s time for another post as a Resident Writing Coach over at Writers Helping Writers, and this time we’re talking about how to stitch together the pieces of our story after a big revision.
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How Do Pantsers Develop Characters?
Plotters might find any kind of pantsing hard to understand, but even pantsers can struggle with pantsing our characters’ development, as that process comes with a different set of problems from developing our plots.
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Need Help Writing Emotions? The Emotion Thesaurus Second Edition Is Here!
I’ve been helping Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi at Writers Helping Writers keep a big secret: The Emotion Thesaurus Second Edition! Angela and Becca have added new responses, new entries, and new writing tips.
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Happy New Year! Get a Fresh Start
With the New Year, I like the idea of fresh starts, so I’m sharing a tip from Twitter on how we can draft our story in a different font than usual to help us see everything with fresh eyes.
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What Is Writers Block (Really) and How Can We Beat It? — Guest: Lisa Bell
Suffering from writer’s block? Lisa Bell shares the brain science behind what causes writer’s block and gives us “brain hacks” we can use to beat it.
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