Writing

Podcast Recommendations

Podcasts can be a great form of professional development for authors, and an excellent way to learn while you're on the move. I...

Publishing 101: Why Word Count Matters

Why does the publishing industry count words instead of pages?

Feature Chat: Author Mallory McCartney

I sat down with author Mallory McCartney to chat about her experience as an author and dealing with a multi-layered story writing

Creating Creatures 101

Welcome to your class on creating original fantastical creatures

The Editing Chopping Block

Check out my list of words on the editing chopping block for when it's time to bring out the red pen

7 Tips to combat writer's block

No matter how many great ideas a writer may have, most of us struggle with mental creative blocks at some point. How do you tackle it...?

Capturing Suspense

The creaking sound started again. It was loud and sharp this time, and much, much closer...

Crash Course to Writing a Book

15 steps to writing a book

Pirate #WIP Chapter 1

In preparation for Pitch Wars, here is a snippet from by DRAFT of the Pirate #wip I am working on. I repeat: this is a draft. CHAPTER 1:...

Falling into the Comparison Pit

The arrival of July marks the start of another Camp NaNoWriMo. A little different from the original National Novel Writing Month event,...

It's All in the Name

One of the smallest details of writing a book, that often has a major impact on both writer and reader, is the name of characters....

My First #NaNoWriMo

I first entered the bookstagram world last year in late October and very quickly began seeing this strange hashtag popping up again and...