One of the biggest reasons writers don’t finish their books and accomplish their goals is a little something known as PROCRASTINATION. Procrastination is rampant in the writing world, and it gets worse and worse the more you do nothing about it. Just like anything else, what you focus on grows. That goes for focusing on […]
As a Developmental Editor, I read A TON of stories every year, and one of the most common errors I see writers making, specifically with romance stories or love story subplots, is not showing enough of WHY and HOW the two characters fall in love. So many of the stories I read it’s like zero […]
When I was in middle school, I was OBSESSED with magazines and with taking quizzes in magazines (all the teen mags had ’em!). Around that same time, I had also uncovered that I was a writer. A real one. Writing wasn’t just an interest or even a hobby. In my mind, it was the thing […]
I’ve been a story coach and content editor for almost a decade now. I’ve seen thousands of stories at all different stages, from just an idea to a draft that’s already been written and rewritten a few times. And there are several bigger issues I see writers having with their stories. I see these same […]
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I wrote my first nonfiction eBook in 2010. It was called, Butt-In-Chair: A No-Excuses Productivity Guide for Writers Who Struggle to Get Started. It came out on March 23, 2010 and it’s still, to this day, the book I sell the most copies of. Before I published this book, I’d been blogging for two years, […]
I work with a lot of fiction writers. In fact, fiction writers make up the majority of my community at this point. And a common complaint I hear from them is this: I can’t write nonfiction. While it’s true that writing nonfiction isn’t for everyone, it’s untrue that fiction writers can’t write nonfiction. Nonfiction just […]
I used to be the Queen Procrastinating Writer. I claimed writer’s block for years. I used it as an excuse not to do the writing I knew I wanted to be doing. But once I finally dug deeper into what was really going on, I was able to make a discovery: there’s no such thing […]
It was the Fall of 2009. I was a year into my story planning journey at that point and I still hadn’t published anything. But I was blogging about overcoming procrastination and sharing how things were going as I continued on my writing journey. And one day I got a hater. A woman commented on […]
Yesterday my husband and I went to brunch at this badass local diner in Austin that’s open 24 hours and serves gluten-free pancakes and french toast and vegan cheese sauce (which is a dream for a gluten-free, mostly dairy-free person like me). We were sitting outside the restaurant, waiting for our table to be ready. […]
