Writing Process
3 Ways to Choose Your Next Creative Writing Project
Finishing a story feels amazing! Choosing the next story to write can be scary. Even when you have a notebook full of ideas, it's often difficult to land on what to write next. So, in today's post, we're going to look at three strategies that will help you choose your...
How to Strengthen Your Story’s Plot Through Developing Strong Relationships
Readers come for your story but stay for your characters. In other words, your story isn't just about what happens, but about who it happens to and all those connected to them. The relationships you write about should impact the plot and your main character's journey....
4 Author Websites to Inspire Your Storytelling Journey
We writers can learn valuable tips and storytelling techniques from one another. But there’s a lot of content out there, and just googling questions we have about the writer’s craft can bring up way too much content to sift through. When I’m looking to learn more...
Writing Authentic Relationships: 5 Common Mistakes
Great stories are about people, and people often come with a lot of connections. After all, who we are is influenced by those closest to us. Thus, a huge part of your main character’s narrative will be impacted by key relationships in their life - romantic, familial,...
How to Write Mentor-Mentee Relationships in Fiction
Mentor-mentee relationships in fiction can be a crucial dynamic, providing protagonists with the key tools they need to succeed on their journey. From Frodo and Gandalf to Katniss and Haymitch, when written authentically, this duo can do more than give and absorb...
Embrace Your Messy First Draft: Growth Mindset for Writers
A perfect, polished first draft is a myth. Every novel starts as a rough, imperfect mess, in need of revisions. Objectively, this makes sense. The creative process begins with planning, testing, revising and doing it again until you arrive at the final product. Yet,...
Falling Out of Love: How to Write Realistic Breakups
I love stories that end with happily ever afters, but sometimes, what is true for your characters and what serves your story best is the breaking down of a love story. And a love ending can be just as powerful as those romances coming to fruition. When writing...
Build Amazing Worlds with these 5 Digital Resources
Here’s a quick and easy round-up of 5 digital world-building resources that’ll make creating your narrative worlds fun while staying organized. These resources are ideal for fantasy and sci-fi writers as well as those crafting historically influenced worlds that are...
Use these 4 Moments to Write Authentic Romantic Relationships
Not every story needs an attention-grabbing romance, but for some books, it’s essential to the plot. A romantic relationship, when executed well, can add depth to your protagonist’s internal and external arcs. The emotional stakes of falling in and out of love will...
Write Powerful Subplots and Secondary Characters with Story Genius
If you’ve been following this three-part series, you know that Lisa Cron’s Story Genius is a valuable book guiding writers through the scene card process. Post one was all about getting to know our protagonist before crafting the story. In post two, we finally broke...
