Character Identity Crisis: Using Inner Conflict to Build Compelling Character Arcs When Your Character Doesn’t Know Who They Are The most gripping inner conflict often isn’t about choosing between two things—it’s… Read more
Why Your Character’s Inner Conflict is Killing Your Story (And How to Fix It) The Invisible Problem Readers Can’t Name Your story has tension. There’s action, stakes, antagonists. But something feels… flat. Readers get… Read more
The Quiet Moment When a Story Finally Starts Feeling Real There’s a moment in some drafts, not all of them, but some, where something shifts. It’s hard to describe. Nothing… Read more
What I Learned From Writing a Story I Didn’t Care About Last year I wrote a story that meant almost nothing to me. It wasn’t personal. It wasn’t exploring anything I… Read more
I Tried Writing Every Day and Then Tried Not Writing Every Day For about three months last year, I wrote every single day. Didn’t miss once. I had a streak going and… Read more
The Smallest Writing Habit That Quietly Changed Everything for Me I should say upfront that this isn’t going to be a dramatic story. No life-changing transformation. No moment where everything… Read more
Writing When You Don’t Feel Like a Writer at All Some days I sit down to write and the thought that surfaces, before I’ve even typed a word, is: who… Read more
The Awkward Middle of a Story and Why I Always Want to Quit There There’s a specific point in every story I write where I start to believe I’ve made a terrible mistake. It… Read more
The Characters I Accidentally Abandoned and What They Still Taught Me I found the file last week. Buried in a folder I hadn’t opened in maybe two years, there was a… Read more
I Stopped Trying to Sound Like a Real Author and My Writing Got Better I spent way too long trying to write like I thought writers were supposed to write. You know the feeling?… Read more
