Should Writers Use AI?
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The Ingredients for a Successful Writing Career
What makes any creative career successful is a combination of factors across key areas of an artist’s life and work.
How to Be a Better Storyteller (A Margot Robbie Master Class)
When Margot Robbie held the SmartLess podcast hosts in the palm of her hand during a recent interview as she…
Speak the Scary. Do the Scary.
Anytime we take a risk of extending ourselves, pushing our limitations, exposing our efforts in front of others, it can…
How Do You Know If You’re Ready to Query?
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5 Ways to Create Story Momentum
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Positive-training Your Creative Career
Olympic skater Alysa Liu rejected the rigid regimen imposed on her by her father and others and created her own…
The Carrot and the Stick
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Revision Isn’t Always Renovation
I had a consultation this week with an author about her current manuscript we’ve been working on together. She was…
Writers: Dissect Your DNFs
It’s tempting, with a DNF, to simply close the book and move along to the next one in your TBR…
The Art of Seeing Others Deeply
Not long ago I read David Brooks’s book How to Know a Person, and much of it is based on…
What’s the Point?
One of the things that has been striking me lately is that regardless of your ideological or political beliefs, it…