Bethany’s Best: The Writer’s Brush & More

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! Book Review: The Writer’s Brush by Donald Friedman Note: Links for this book are affiliate links which means if you purchase something I […]

Bethany’s Best: Writing Point of View & More

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 […]

Bethany’s Best: Fight Scenes & More

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 […]

Bethany’s Best: Query Letters & More

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 Roundup: Query Letters A query letter is like a cover letter for our novel that is sent to an agent. It […]

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Bethany’s Best: Story Structure & More

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 Roundup: Story Structure Story structure is the framework that holds our stories together and helps them resonate with our readers. It […]

Bethany’s Best: Traditional Publishing (and More!)

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 Roundup: Traditional Publishing I recently wrote about various publishing options that we have as writers, and how different options may be […]

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Bethany’s Best, December Edition: Self-Publishing, Squash Soup, and Journaling

Each month I take a moment to pause and share a few things I’ve found to be helpful and fun along the journey as a busy writer. I hope you find them to be enlightening and encouraging! Article Roundup: Self-Publishing I recently wrote about various publishing options that we have as writers, and how different options […]

Bethany’s Best, November Edition: Pep Talks and What Ifs

Each month I take a moment to pause and share a few things I’ve found to be helpful and fun along the journey as a busy writer. I hope you find them to be enlightening and encouraging! Article Roundup: Pep Talks From The Nanowrimo Archives Today marks the last day of November and the end […]

Bethany’s Best: NaNoWriMo Prep, Letter Writing, and Perspective

Each month I take a moment to pause and share a few things I’ve found to be helpful and fun along the journey as a busy writer. I hope you find them to be enlightening and encouraging! Article Roundup: NaNoWriMo Prep Coming up next month in November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. I’m […]