A decade is a beautifully fulsome length of time, as evidenced by our fascination with looking at the 1900s in ten-year blocks, ju...

Setting off on a fiction writing journey can overwhelm even the most excited, steadfast new writers. How does one make that very ...

Cowriting a story is a beautiful sort of alchemy – taking the best instincts of two creative minds and sifting out the less helpfu...

Welcome to My Writing Toolkit, where I share an example of my efforts to strengthen and galvanize my writing, including real sampl...

Another year, another NaNoWriMo! If you're one of the hundred thousand-plus writers who participate, you’re likely familiar w...

With NaNoWriMo underway, and perhaps the early excitement and momentum beginning to fade, now is the perfect time to ponder how to...

Have you found yourself dreading your writing time of late? Maybe sitting down diligently but watching the clock and feeling secre...

The last time I spoke about decluttering and organizing , I shared what inspired the process and said "your decluttering succ...

Say the average length of a novel runs around 80,000 words. Contained in those 80,000 words are likely thousands of sentences. How...

Have you ever noticed that writers have a tendency to waffle on about writing routines? Firstly, let me be clear that I love w...

"Look, talent comes everywhere, but having something to say and a way to say it so that people listen to it, that'...

Have you ever looked back on a scene you’ve written and wondered why it feels a bit ... generic? You’ve developed amazing char...

As writers, we’re not (just) writing monologues about the joy of a perfect pie crust. We’re also trying to convey abstract concept...

During the very first of the Tea Party Chronicles (a virtual writing salon), we talked about the magical mayhem of working on th...

One of my favourite science fiction stories of all time is not a book or a movie or a TV show. It’s a video game trilogy by the na...

G'day, chickadees! I'm so excited to welcome Abria Mattina to our cozy corner of the internet. Let's pull up a chair...

So I hear things are getting serious with you and your muse! You’re getting together more often, things feel “right,” your writer ...

You know that feeling when your writing starts to just get thin? Like if it was a three-dimensional being, it would be so insubsta...

I was recently tagged for the 7/7/7/7 challenge. Put simply, if you want to participate (you're by no means obligated) you'...

The last time a new opportunity surfaced for you, did you welcome it with open arms? Turn it away? Approach it with a healthy dose...