Set Yourself up for Success with your Editor with These Four Tips
If you’ve been around at all, you’ve heard me talk about my nightmare experience with one of my first editors. She marked up my article...
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What should you pay for to make progress this year?
Hellooooo new year, fresh goals, and crisp planner pages! Anyone else riding the holiday highs straight into a new writing project with...
Beware the lie your writing doesn't matter. Here's why.
I’ve wanted to publish a book since I could write my name. As a pre-teen scribbling Newsies fan fiction, as a teenager imagining the...
5 Journal Prompts For When You Want More Contentment, Less Jealousy
One of my favorite parts of the writing life is connecting with fellow authors. Discussing the writing craft over in-real-life coffee or...
How to Love Telling People You're a Writer without Sounding Crazy
You're mingling at a party with new people and a kind stranger asks you what you do for a living. You freeze. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "Uh, I'm a...
How's Your Writing Life? Here's a Tool to Make it Better
Writing online can feel overwhelming, especially if you hope to write a self-published book someday. You’ve got to juggle your email and...
How to write an authentic blog post (or book!) people actually want to read
Raise your hand if you prefer the sound of an audience amening to crickets chirping. SAME. You pour your heart and soul into a blog post,...
My 3 pieces of advice to an amazing, balanced summer of writing and family
Anyone else ready to sit poolside with a sparkling water and a good book? Me too! Except this year, I’ll be kicking it at the community...
6 Reasons Why You Might Stop Writing + How to Avoid Them
Writing can be like trying to have a conversation with a friend while the news is blaring in the background. You want to pay attention to...
20 prompts to get out of a rut and help you enjoy writing again
It’s mid-February, y’all. Statistically speaking, most of us have dropped our new year’s writing goals by now. I have. January exploded...
5 Questions to Ask When You Don't Know What's Next
I scrubbed a pot stuck with oatmeal over the kitchen sink and rolled over a business decision in my head again and again. As the hot...
5 Situations Where You Might Be Ready for a Writing Coach
I like to think of it as the $10,000 question. The question that sparked months of preparation, hundreds of running feet, and 15,000...
My Favorite 5 Step Process to Overcome Negative Emotions and Make Progress
Ever thought about the words we say to ourselves in our heads, when we know no one will ever hear or know them? Yikes. Sorry to go there....
5 Journal Prompts for When You Just Want to Give Up Your Writing
I debated whether or not to write this post. As writers, we often dwell on how hard this writing journey is. How lonely and arduous it...
How to Actually Overcome Writer's Block and Finish Your Book
I imagine you’re itching to make some writing dreams a reality. You’ve got a story to tell, an idea that won’t get out of your head. And...
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