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Stories are basically collections of scenes, so as writers, it can be useful to think about scenes as discrete units. But what exactly IS a scene? If you’ve ever found […]
How Discovery Writing Helps You Find Your Story
If you’re knee-deep in a draft and your story keeps changing on you, take a breath, you’re not doing it wrong. You’re doing the real work. A writer once said […]
Autofiction: When Your Story Doesn’t Fit in the Box
You sit down to write your story. It’s personal. Emotional. True, but also – not exactly. You’ve changed names. Rearranged events. Invented scenes to make the emotional arc land. And […]
Writing Hard Scenes That Carry Real Emotion
If you’ve ever hit a section in your story that made you want to close your laptop and walk away, you’re not alone. Writing hard scenes—grief, shame, trauma, heartbreak—takes something […]
Research for Fiction Writing
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Choosing Your Publishing Path: The Traditional Way or Self-Publish?
Somewhere along the way—usually after a few drafts and a whole lot of soul-searching—every writer faces the same question: Should I try to get a book deal, or should I […]
How a Scrivener Outline Can Rescue Your First Draft
If your manuscript feels more like a pile of spaghetti than a structured story, you are not alone. Many of my writer friends and writers I work with regularly admit […]
Craft Questions in Writing: Do You Really Need That Scene?
In nearly every mastermind session we host inside the Mindful Writing Community, a few familiar questions pop up like clockwork: “Do I really need this flashback?”“Is my first page strong […]
Writing Through the Hardest Scenes: 5 Techniques to Stay Confident
There’s a kind of writing that asks more of us than craft. It asks us to show up emotionally. To stay present with the hard stuff. To touch the places […]