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8 Practical Blog Posts to Improve Your Writing Life and Productivity
Over my nearly twenty years as a writer (I started young!), I’ve found that good writing habits are absolutely essential to consistently producing words. That seems like an obvious thing when you read…
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Introducing the 30-Day Road Trip Word Crawl Workbook: Pack Your Bags for Day 1
I am so jazzed to finally announce the digital, printable version of the 30-Day Road Trip Word Crawl Workbook is now available! I’ve included below the full first word crawl in the workbook,…
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The Ugly Notebook Theory
If people know you write, you are going to get notebooks, pens, and other writing supplies for every holiday. You’ve probably amassed quite a collection by now. I know I have—I’m up to…
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What Happens When You Book a Story Coaching Session
What’s story coaching? I’ve written a blog post about that! To put it succinctly, a story coach works with writers to clarify their story ideas, including plot, subplots, character arcs, and themes. But…
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12 Ways to Commit to Writing a Book
How do you actually commit to writing a novel? How do you follow through? If you’ve never written The End on a story, this is a question that haunts you. Surely, other writers…
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How to Craft a Compelling Character Arc: The Misbelief, or the Wrong Idea
Your main character has a tragic backstory to make even the toughest among us shed a tear. During their story, they overcome adversity despite the seemingly insurmountable obstacles placed in front of them…
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How to Craft a Compelling Character Arc: From Wounded to Warrior
Learning how to craft a compelling character arc is the thing to take your stories from readable to unputdownable. It’s not going to be your prose. It won’t be your setting or your…
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18 Must-Read Posts on Writing Craft, Story Structure, & Character Development
There’s no shortage of writing craft tips on the web. I should know—during my tenure as Writer’s Atelier’s administrative assistant, I wrote a lot of them! Something you’ll realize quickly if you get…
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Lessons Learned from Writing with 4thewords
If you told me in early 2022—just a few months before I learned these 4thewords writing lessons—that I’d one day have an 883-day writing streak, I would have said that was a weirdly…
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What is a Story Coach?
Here’s something a little embarrassing: for the longest time, I thought being a story coach wasn’t a real thing. This was back in the days when I was helping local writers I knew…
