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Five Tips for Turning Your Writing Goals Inside Out and Upside Down When You Feel Stuck
By Ann Kellett
Posted 12/16/2024
There’s a lot of great advice for the writing life: write every day, track your progress, write first and edit later, and so on.
But too often, the writing goals that served us well early on suddenly lose their magic. We find ourselves in a creative rut and even the best advice cannot seem to help us make the words flow.
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Next Steps After NaNoWriMo (Even if You Don’t Get To 50,000 Words)
By Ann Kellett
Posted 10/30/2024
I’m not too proud to admit it: after three NaNoWriMo experiences, I have yet to reach the 50,000-word goal.
Along the way, though, I have learned to flip that statement into a positive: for three years in a row, I have successfully benefited from NaNoWriMo in many ways, but the word count is not one of them.
In fact, I believe the word count is not the only—or even the main—thing that counts in NaNoWriMo. Here are five take-aways to keep the momentum going for those of us who might not reach the (arbitrary) goal.
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How to Speak so Strangers Will Buy: Hand-Selling Your Book at Live Events
By Adrienne deWolfe
Posted 12/15/2025
Selling sucks. We all know it; we all hate to do it.
If you’re an Introvert, nothing is scarier than the idea of facing your Reading Public at a live event. Extroverts feel the same way. We’re just good at pretending.
As a Scaredy Cat, who dreaded rejection so much that it made me ill, I invented a motivational mantra. Perhaps it will help you:
“Fear of selling is the insidious Evil that has kept millions of writers in the poorhouse for hundreds of years.”
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Five Things Authors Get Wrong About Horses, and How You Can Get Them Right
By Lizzie Jenks
Posted 1/15/2025
London, 1817. The full moon still shone bright over the city as he entered the stable. The stable lads were all asleep, so he pulled his stallion out of its stall, buckled on its harness, and then he hitched up the coach and set out into the darkness.
Wait. What?
This would never have happened, and most of your readers know it. They might not know why, but they feel it in their bones, and that yanks them out of the story with a painful thunk.
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Deep POV: The Importance of Perception in World Building
By Romy Summer
Posted 6/20/2024
About a million years ago, when I was still bright-eyed and naïve and killing time until I could get into film school, I did a semester of philosophy at university. I had no clue what philosophy was really about or what kinds of crazy ideas I was opening myself up to – but it turned out to be mind-blowing for eighteen-year-old me. Sadly, after all these years, there’s only one thing I still remember from that course: Renaissance philosopher René Descartes’ theory of perception. He’s best known for originating the famous saying, “Cogito, ergo sum” (I think, therefore I am), but, for me, the bit that has stuck with me through the years is how he reached that famous conclusion.
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