How to Write a First Draft, Part 1: Laying the GroundworkAugust 26, 2021If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. Having a first-draft prep checklist is a…
What If You Don’t “Succeed” as a Creator?June 17, 2021This 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 SurfaceJune 10, 2021If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. One morning this week I was walking…
Writing Inclusive Stories and Diverse CharactersJune 3, 2021(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 BehaveMarch 25, 2021Two 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 ProtagonistsMarch 18, 2021Readers don’t care what’s happening unless we care who it’s happening to. This is the truest truism I know about…
