Authentic relationships are crucial to developing a compelling story. Your main character is at the heart of every story, which is why readers care...
How to Write Authentic Relationships in Your Story: 6 Tips
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Writing Process
How to Create Multidimensional Characters: A Character Development Process
Character development is essential to crafting an engaging story. Readers stick around for your characters’ journeys, not the flashy fight scenes or...
How to Use Non-Writing Time to Explore Your Manuscript
The task of writing involves more than just putting words onto the page. Researching, outlining and revising are some of those additional tasks....
How to Use “Wired for Story” to Engage Readers
Lisa Cron’s Wired for Story encourages writers to come to the page with an understanding of how our brains interact with stories. This knowledge...
How to Stop Overusing Adverbs to Enhance Your Story
There is an ongoing discussion amongst writers on the best practices when using adverbs in our writing. You’ve probably heard more than one writer...
How to Outline Your Manuscript After It’s Written
If you didn't outline your manuscript pre-writing chances are you've realized that it needs a lot of work. I’m currently in a similar...
Stephen King’s “On Writing”: Unlock Your Writing Potential
Stephen King’s book, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft blends memoir with advice for writing at any stage of your writing journey. I was gifted this...
How to Incorporate Relevant Flashbacks into Your Story
Did you read last week’s blog post on beginning your story in the middle of the action? In that post, we talked about not wanting to bore our...
How to Start Your Story in the Middle of the Action
Have you ever been told to “stick with a book and it’ll get better?” Sometimes, we discover that chapter one is a little slow, but once the story...
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I'm Julia
I’m here to connect with storytellers, creatives, and dream-chasers. This blog focuses on creative writing, goal-setting, productivity, and mindfulness- all things craved by creative minds who want to bring their dreams into the present.
