The Quiet Moment When a Story Finally Starts Feeling Real There’s a moment in some drafts, not all of them,… Read more
The Difference Between a Story Idea and a Story That Actually Survives the Draft I have a folder on my computer called “Story Ideas”… Read more
Why Some of My Favorite Sentences End Up Getting Deleted There’s a sentence I wrote about six months ago that… Read more
I Rewrote the Same Scene Five Different Ways and Here’s What Changed Each Time A few weeks ago, I got completely stuck on a… 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… Read more
What Happens When You Let a Character Make a Bad Choice on Purpose I was about three chapters into a short story when… Read more
The Characters I Accidentally Abandoned and What They Still Taught Me I found the file last week. Buried in a folder… 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… Read more
Writing Scenes I Know Will Never Make the Final Story (And Why I’m Doing It Anyway) Last week I spent two hours writing a conversation between… Read more
I Tried Writing Without a Plot for 30 Days and Here’s What Actually Happened So there I was, stuck again. Just completely stuck. You… Read more
