How to Prepare for NaNoWriMo, Part 1: Laying the Groundwork
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What If You Don’t “Succeed” as a Creator?
This weekend my husband sent me this post from his favorite cartoonist, Nathan Pyle, and it unexpectedly made me tear…
Bring Your Story to Life by Digging Beneath the Surface
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Writing Inclusive Stories and Diverse Characters
(This post originally ran in the Women’s Fiction Writers Association’s WriteOn! quarterly magazine.) Writers are big dreamers. Our imaginations are…
Training Your Writing to Behave
Two and a half years ago I brought home a dog from the Austin Animal Center, where I was volunteering,…
Working Backward to Create Fully Fleshed, Compelling Protagonists
Readers don’t care what’s happening unless we care who it’s happening to. This is the truest truism I know about…