Writing life

Are you ready to create a life that makes more room for what you love? Check out these tips on how to live like a writer.

Free writing pushes your brain to think longer, deeper, and more unconventionally than it normally would.

To create a fiction writing schedule is more than planning to write; it’s how we ensure we finish our novels. It’s the back of the napkin math: if you write so many words a day you’ll finish your book in this amount of time. Where to start, what to include, how to plan, and a way you can remind yourself—even automate your schedule—is all in this blog post. Read now!

Struggling to achieve your goals and build good writing habits? Here's how you can work on creating an intentional writer life.

Looking for memoir writing advice? Check out these do's and don'ts for struggling memoir writers.

Writing can be difficult at times. Depending on what you’re writing, you can hit a wall, or the ever-so-dreaded “Writer’s Block.” I always see these posts and read the so-called “rules of writing.” There are some rules like the proper use of grammar, nouns and so on. But, stylistically, it’s important to be yourself. Here are my... Read Article →

Good writing is about well-chosen nouns and strong verbs, not adjectives and adverbs. What constitutes a tired verb? Here’s what to look for:

There's writing advice everywhere, but not all of it is true. Here are seven lies about becoming a writer that you probably believe.

Go ahead. It's OK.

Whether you are trying to write a novel, pen an epic poem, or maintain a blog about this or that, it’s inevitable that you will at some point experience one of the following: lack of inspiration decrease in motivation general malaise writing burnout general I-don’t-give-a-shit Some people refer to these symptoms as “writer’s block,” but I … Continue reading What to Write About When You Have Nothing to Write About