12 Inspiring Prompts for Writers: Day 5
Who are authors (or artists) whose work you admire? What skills do they highlight? What is it that they do that you find so impressive? What can you…
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12 Inspiring Prompts for Writers: Day 3
Hello hello! Today is prompt three in my twelve-prompt regimen for taking on 2025 as a writer! Today we’re digging in deeper with our reflective prompts to inspire and encourage us in the new year…
12 Inspiring Prompts for Writers: Day 2
Welcome back to twelve days of reflective prompts that will dig deep to inspire and encourage us in the new year! Out of all the prompts, this one is probably…
12 Inspiring Prompts for Writers: Day 1
With twelve prompts over the next few days, I will guide you through simple reflections to inspire you and encourage stronger writing efforts in 2025.
Characters that leap off the page: Using interiority to show your characters’ inner world
Have you ever heard the phrase, “I want a book where the characters leap right off the page?” If you’ve ever queried before or researched agents, I’m sure you have. After all, isn’t that what everyone wants in a book?
It can be so frustrating to read an abstract goalpost like “give me a character that leaps off the page,” because obviously you, yourself, feel like your character does that, but how do you know….
Dollhouses, Throwaways, Parlor Rooms, and Greebles: How to Build Immersive Fantasy Worlds
Recently I was thinking about my time at Viable Paradise, (which I have feelings on, which I will definitely write about at a later point), and I asked myself, what did I learn at Viable Paradise? Obviously, I have friends and connections that I made at Viable Paradise that I probably wouldn’t have without attending […]
Writer’s Block, Laziness, and Perseverance in Writing: How to Gentle Parent Yourself into Writing Again
Lately I feel as though I have come to a catastrophic full stop in my fantasy writing. Like, I’m here doing this (the blog), but what of aCATemy, which I was “supposed to” write in April? What of Magic Princess Academy, which I can’t seem to figure out how to revise? What of that new shiny cozy fantasy I want to write but haven’t written more than a chapter of, with a monster hunter who gives up hunting to protect two cerberi puppies? I think…
The Market Always Has Room for New Artists
When I think of the start of my artistic journey, I think of greeting cards. I was probably five or six, literate, but writing only with tremendous difficulty. My mom would …
How to figure out what you love so that you can write what you love
In a perfect world, writing what you love would be easy. You’d dig deep into your heartsong and out on the page would come, you know, your heartsong—the most passionate, authentic literary expression you could muster. But we don’t live in that perfect world, and when…
Showing vs. telling: When is it appropriate to tell rather than show?
In writing, “show, don’t tell” is a frequently touted maxim, probably because the CIA pushed it into prestigious writing communities like the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and the Paris Review, and they, in turn, spread it as an unbreakable literary law. But unless you only want…
