Day 4: Vision & Curiosity 30-Day Writing Challenge Part 1: Reflection Today’s intentions are vision and curiosity. In order to find this in our writing, we need to think about our motivations and ask questions. Here are …
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Fueling the Writing Passion Day 3: Movement & Focus
Day 3: Movement & Focus 30-Day Writing Challenge Part 1: Reflection Today’s intentions are movement and focus. In order to find this in our writing, we need to dream big, set goals, and reward our progress. Here …
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Fueling the Writing Passion Day 2: Excitement & Tenacity
Day 2: Excitement & Tenacity 30-Day Writing Challenge Part 1: Reflection Today’s intentions are excitement and tenacity. In order to find this in our writing, we need to dream big, set goals, and reward our progress. Here …
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The Dragon Test—Building a Compelling World
Guest Post by Author R.A. McCandless Dragons are awesome, awe-inspiring, and absolutely alliteratively artistic. They’re also impossible. That’s what the Dragon Test helps you understand. Think about your story, your world, or the story you want to …
The Gold Bug & Contracted Intimacy: wet cows, glass castles full of books, Vulcan field trips-Ep.5
Show Notes A 60-minute episode in which we discuss commonplace journals (and Kelsey’s random note-taking), a dream bookstore that presents you with your writing needs and looks like a forest, naughty Renaissance literature, the Enlightenment as told …
How to Write a Novel & Hold Down a Demanding Job
Guest Post by Caroline Elvin, Author & Freelance Writer It’s no easy feat to write a novel, but doing it whilst holding down a full-time job can be a whole separate challenge in itself. Whilst writing my …
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I Killed Her So That I Might Keep Her
The only sin of the last duchess was that she enjoyed life a bit too much. She looked upon everything with favor, and Duke of Ferrara did not take kindly to that. He wanted her eyes to …
Talking Politics and Martians with Author Willie Handler
There is nothing quite like satire for opening the mind and eyes to current issues. Perhaps it is because that mode of writing breaks past normal barricades, catching the reader off guard and revealing things about themselves …
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Observe More Than You Can
It is easy to get caught up in our chaotic lives and forget to look around. As Wordsworth so poetically put it, “The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay …
Tibetan Lemonade 