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How rushing protects the ego while sabotaging your potential

Invite your friends to read Writes of Fiction

Wednesday Craft: Nov. 27, 2024

Wednesday Craft: Nov. 20, 2024

Plot hack or story development?

Wednesday Craft: Nov. 13, 2024

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Plot your story using learning and teaching techniques

Wednesday Craft: Oct. 30, 2024

You're invited to Office Hours tomorrow!

Wednesday Craft: Oct. 23, 2024

The social graces of an online author

Wednesday Craft: Oct. 16, 2024

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Why your training scenes are boring

Wednesday Craft: Oct. 2, 2024

Wednesday Craft: Sept. 25, 2024

Build your antilibrary

Wednesday Craft: Sept. 18, 2024

Weekend Office Hours this Saturday, September 21

Wednesday Craft for Sept. 11, 2024

Last chance to get on my editing calendar during 2024

Is a publishing professional going to steal your book?

Wednesday Craft

Backing into the story

Tune up tone deaf writing

The math of making more time

Morning Office Hours this Thursday, August 15

How to write scenes readers just can't quit

The baroque choreography of stage business

What do you call a writer who doesn't read?

Making art and life with "The Bear"

Join my new subscriber chat

Evening Office Hours this Thursday, July 18

How to talk about your creative work with others

Friday Craft: Ask me about storytelling and writing fiction

Goals for writers: Staying in your own dance space

How to doomproof your reading

Refresh your story's vision with a Clarity Audit

Friday Craft: Your questions about writing commercial fiction

One last seat available: Story Incubator weekly group coaching

Scene secrets: Unlocking the techniques

Evoking archetypes in writing with tarot

Seats now open: Story Incubator weekly group coaching

In the dumps: A periodic Writes of Fiction brain dump

Weekend Office Hours this weekend: Saturday, June 15

The cost of editing

If you think writing novels is easy, you're probably not very good at it

Why you should be writing in someone else's book

How sequel scenes shape story

Evening Office Hours tonight: Thursday, May 16

Evening Office Hours with guest editor Beth Hill: Thursday, May 16

Characters, character agency, and a craft quiz

Office Hours Brown Bag: Thursday, May 9

Are you still obsessing over your first chapter?

Manuscript Revision: When less is more

Why it's important to read bad books

Office Hours: Leverage the power of your story's narrator

Chapters, scenes, and the spaces in between

The Writes of Fiction Office Hours—tomorrow!

The ten most common structural edits

A runner's advice to writers

How to tell if your book is a success

Now open to Writes of Fiction subscribers: Story Incubator weekly coaching group

Save the dates! Office Hours community coaching calls

Building your literary community

Office Hours ahead: Saturday, March 16

Who can copyright a book by ChatGPT?

What should I read next?

Diagnosis: You've got protagonist problems

Chomping down on the crunchy bits

Office Hours ahead: Tuesday, February 20

The fragile beauty of being alive

Heading off common storytelling blunders

Why editors and agents don't offer a "quick look"

First Office Hours of the year coming up

Let's talk (hint, hint) about your new paid subscriber tier benefit

Telling time like a novelist

Cuppa is now The Writes of Fiction