My birthday was last month along with Mother’s Day, so I’ve been a bit spoiled lately! (Thanks, everyone! 🙂 ) With gifts on my mind, I thought I’d put together a post of some fun things that I’ve seen out there for writers and creatives. Whether it’s a gift for a friend or for yourself, […]
Wellness for writers, self-care, grace, sustainable living… no matter what we call it, the truth is that it’s important for us to find ways to be healthy both body and soul. Wellness can be especially tricky for writers at times since we’re often isolated, dealing with criticism both from ourselves and others, and overall engaging […]
Each month I take a moment to pause and share a few things I’ve found to be helpful and fun along the adventure of living and writing well. I hope you find them to be enlightening and encouraging! Article Round Up: Writing Point of View Writing point of view (or POV) refers to the narrator of a story and how […]
Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon (one of my latest nonfiction reads) is a short, to-the-point book chock filled with truth and fun doodles for creative people everywhere. Note: Links for this book are affiliate links which means if you buy something I may get a small commission at no extra cost to you. […]
Today I am super excited and honored to be guest posting over at Fiction University! Fiction University is a blog hosted by Janice Hardy that is chock filled with information, great advice, and a million resources for writers. In my post 5 Tips on Writing with Small Children, I’m sharing some writing mindset and time […]
Why worry about character motivation? Our characters are critical to bringing our story to life and in keeping readers engaged. Which means we need characters that are real, that entertain, and that aren’t shallow. We don’t want our characters to just be pretty good, we want great. To create great characters we need to dig […]
As writers, it is a good move to have some sort of a website in place. Today we’re looking at ways to make money with our websites. Having a way to make some money through our website can be great, especially for us writers and artists who maybe aren’t raking in millions (yet anways 😉 […]
Each month I take a moment to pause and share a few things I’ve found to be helpful and fun along the adventure of living and writing well. I hope you find them to be enlightening and encouraging! Article Round Up: Writing Fight Scenes Writing good action scenes in our stories can be incredibly hard. We want a fight that […]
So. Asking for help is hard. Asking for anything is hard. I’m not particularly good at it, and you know what? I’m not alone. This fear of asking overflows into our work as writers. The writing process involves creating stories and asking people to read them, to review them, to love them. When we are […]
Sometimes I catch myself being super negative, especially when I’m hungry or haven’t gotten enough sleep. It’s a dangerous, slippery slope because once I start being critical, suddenly I see fault in everything. Which is why it’s so powerful to practice thanksgiving. For a bit now I’ve been trying to regularly stop and take time […]