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...
by Julia | Jan 9, 2025 | Personal Growth
Why do we doubt accomplishing our writing goals when others succeed every day? Doubting ourselves is a common experience that plagues everyone – not just in our creative pursuits. It is the culmination of our fears of failure, not being good enough and all the...
by Julia | Jan 2, 2025 | Creative Writing
Short story contests are an excellent way to strengthen your writing skills and confidence. Telling a succinct story in so few words requires great plotting skills. It can allow you to experiment with voice and genre without committing to a novel-length plot. In some...
by Julia | Dec 19, 2024 | Books, Writing Process
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 ensures that our plot is filled with scientifically supported techniques that compel the audience to keep reading. You...
by Julia | Dec 5, 2024 | Publishing
A query letter is that crucial document I’d rather avoid writing at all costs, but I know is necessary to gain the attention of publishing agents. If you’re interested in going down the traditional publishing path, then a strong query letter is so important! You’ll...
by Julia | Nov 28, 2024 | Books
Writers are not that difficult to shop for. As readers at heart, books can be a special, even personal gift for a writer. In today’s post, I’ll share 5 books to gift writers this holiday. These books are all about writing, making them the perfect present for the...
