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What I Wish For You in 2024 (A Love Letter)

Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024

Happy Holidays (A Love Letter)

In Love With Your Writing, In Love With the World (A Love Letter, Of Course)

On the Art of Noticing Glimmers (A Love Letter)

The Only Way Out is Through (A Love Letter)

On Not Being Able to Write (A Love Letter)

The Great Reset (A Love Letter)

The World is a Messy Place (A Love Letter)

How Beautiful the World Is

A Wee Bit of Encouragement for Nano Writers

A Life Lesson for Writing

Courses

Preptober Class Part 4: Tips and Practicalities

I Wish I Wrote Every Day, But I Don't Always

Vote For Yourself, In Writing and In Life

Preptober Class Part 3: Structure

Many Ways Into Your Writing To Keep You Going

Preptober Class Part 2: Setting

Ch...ch..ch...changes

Preptober Class, Part I: Character

The Brilliance of Pumpkin Spice Latte

The Muddle in the Middle is Real

The Pleasures and Perils of Word Count Tracking

When to Keep Going and When to Stop

Cleaning the Slate

Slow Down, Your Writing Moves Too Fast

How to Deal With Rejection

Your Semi-Regular Reminder: Write Badly

5 All Over the Map Tips for Novel Writing

What To Do When Your Novel is Stuck

What motivates you to write?

The Stories We Tell About Writing and Ourselves

Your Lack of a Writing Ritual Isn't the Problem

Have a Little Fling on the Side

How to Begin Again When Your Writing Gets Stalled

Weekly Writing Boost #8: My favorite Substacks

Why Do We Resist Doing the Things We Love?

Weekly Writing Boost #7: Let's Have a Rest, Shall We?

Do You Write to External or Internal Expectations?

Weekly Writing Boost #6: Make a List

Writer, Interrupted, or What to Do When Life Gets in the Way

Weekly Writing Boost #5: A Different Viewpoint

How to Get Your Writing Done

Weekly Writing Boost #4: Hierophany

Stockton Rush and the Power of Archetypes

Weekly Writing Boost #3

We Have One Job As Novelists

Writing Boost #2

Writing Lesson From a Plant Man

Weekly Writing Boost #1

Be Like Cormac?

Why Isn't That In Your Story?

Today is Women's Fiction Day!

Empathy: The Writer's Secret Weapon?*

At a Writing Workshop in England

It's Not Your Fault

Writers...it's okay

Fly the Plane While You're Building It

On Taking Up Morning Pages Again

Tell What You Know

Genre Writers Can't Catch a Break

Be Yourself--In Writing and In Life

Step by Step We Travel Far

The Exquisite Tension of Reading

Using Specific Detail

All the Writing Prompts You Will Ever Need

To Prompt or Not to Prompt, That is the Question

And here's my old friend fear

And I Begin Again