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Good News Monday & Georgia O’Keeffe on Fear

the energetic properties of quiet

A Celebration Thread & an Idea for Endings

How the Writer Did It (#1 in a Series)

On Time, Decline, and Skiing

The Skills That Age Well: On Writing and Basketball

Your Character's Karaoke Song

An Orientation of Gratitude

The Emotions of Objects

9 Questions for Deepening Characters and Expanding the Emotional Arc of Your Book

Writing Middles: The Grand Canyon Problem

To Plot or Not to Plot

What Would Your Favorite Author Do?

Some writing jumper cables for you

When the guard is off duty

Craft Tips from the Taylor & Travis Story

Openings and Closings: How Gillian Flynn and Stephen King Get It Done

We don't need to know what our characters want.

Day 6: to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world

Day 5. On Living Twice. #TodayYouWillWrite November Daily Write-Along

moving through an impossibility in your writing project

Day 3. Hope begins in the dark. It is a revolutionary patience.

Day 2 of the November Write-Along

Day 1 of The November Write-Along

Bibliomancy: a Halloween-themed writing prompt

The November Daily Write-Along

our origin books, our origin loves

Writing What You Are Resisting

Write Your Book in November: A month-long journey of inspiration and support

Letting Go of Perfect: Writing the Golden Repair

The Centaur Stage

The Summer Harvest

An Epilogue Ending

On Noticing What You Notice

My #1 Tip for Using Research in Storytelling

Writerly Fashion, Midlife Reassessments, and Making Friends

A Symmetrical Ending

10 Tips for Writing Historical Fiction

Telling the same story again and again?

Big and Small, Room for All

Not a Freytag Pyramid Writer? Try the Vignette Novel.

Writing a Book in a Month - 5 Research Tips

In A Story Swamp? Try a Ghost Text.

"Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.” --James Baldwin

Letting Everyone on the Bus, Being the Closer, and Finding Your Ending

Writing the We

What is the most beautiful thing in the world? What in your life is your greatest source of pleasure?

Writing By Drawing + Commencement Speeches & Considering Switchback Memories

Do You Tell Writers You Love Them?

Your words, warm from the printer

Finding Your Story's Title

When the writing is a field in winter.

a dandelion fluff of writing prompts for you

"When you stop striving for perfection, you’ll come up with something beautiful." --Ross Gay

Maps as Imagination Generators & Writing w/TV

Shaking Off the Writing Doubt: Writing with Movement & Music

Deepening characters by writing their relationships to non-human living things.

The scene you have...not been writing. Strategies for getting back into the writing.

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