by Julia | Mar 27, 2025 | Books, Writing Process
Natalie Goldberg’s Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft is a meditative look at the writer’s journey. Do not come to this book expecting a series of concrete strategies and resources for writing well. You will need to look beyond the surface. Read...
by Julia | Mar 20, 2025 | Writing Process
Platonic relationships are just as crucial to our stories as romantic relationships or tension between protagonists and antagonists. They can provide points of conflict and growth for our main character, give them a realistic support system, or mirror their journey....
by Julia | Mar 6, 2025 | Productivity
Maintaining a consistent writing habit is no easy feat. It can seem impossible to fit writing into our days between work, life and the unexpected. To be clear, writing does not need to be a daily habit. Consistency can occur on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. It...
by Julia | Feb 27, 2025 | Writing Process
Worldbuilding provides a backdrop for your characters to play in and the rules by which your world and all of its characters are held. This world can be a source of conflict. Your world enhances the story’s believability as readers immerse themselves in the external...
by Julia | Feb 20, 2025 | Personal Growth
Are you experiencing the winter blues? Or a lack of inspiration during these frigid, long days? This blog post provides 6 self-care tips to help you avoid burnout and sustain your inspiration. Self-care isn’t just about lighting candles and taking a bath… Writers...
by Julia | Feb 13, 2025 | Writing Process
Authentic relationships are crucial to developing a compelling story. Your main character is at the heart of every story, which is why readers care to stick around. The characters who surround your MC influence them throughout their evolution. Romantic, familial,...
by Julia | Feb 6, 2025 | Productivity
February is notorious as the month where many goals begin to slip from the center of our to-do list. If you’re losing momentum on your writing goals, it’s time to review and recommit to them before they’re added to the pile of unaccomplished dreams. Today, I’ve...
by Julia | Jan 30, 2025 | Writing Process
Character development is essential to crafting an engaging story. Readers stick around for your characters’ journeys, not the flashy fight scenes or dramatic external conflicts. Every scene within your story needs to influence your main character whether through...
by Julia | Jan 23, 2025 | Creative Writing
Writing resources are proactive tools that benefit both the writer and their work in progress. They can aid you in developing a narrative that is cohesive, imaginative and grammatically sound. In this blog post, I’ll help you solve some writerly problems with 5...
by Julia | Jan 16, 2025 | Writing Process
The task of writing involves more than just putting words onto the page. Researching, outlining and revising are some of those additional tasks. Another task that writers engage in – often unconsciously- is non-writing. Non-writing is time that is not spent on...
