Category Archives: Writing Life

Five Questions To Ask When Dealing with Writer’s Block

There are lots of things that are frightening to a writer, but at the very top of that list is writer’s block. That feeling of being stuck, like nothing is working, and it’s hard to see your way out. I have felt this a couple of times throughout writing, and I don’t think the lineContinue reading “Five Questions To Ask When Dealing with Writer’s Block”

How To Stay Sane While Querying Your Manuscript

If you want to be traditionally published, you have to get an agent somehow. For the majority of writers, that means querying literary agents. Once you sign with an agent, they will be your champion: helping to make sure your book is as good as it can get, selling it to editors at publishing houses,Continue reading “How To Stay Sane While Querying Your Manuscript”

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How To Use Notion to Organize Your Writing

If you’ve ever lost track of a great plot idea or the perfect solution to that plot hole because you either didn’t write it down, or wrote it down on some random piece of paper that is somewhere in your house, car, or recycling bin, don’t worry: You’re not alone. And there is a betterContinue reading “How To Use Notion to Organize Your Writing”

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3 Tips for Writing When You Don’t Have Much Time

In every author’s dream, we have hours upon hours to idle away in a coffee shop, writing and reading and daydreaming about characters. In reality, however, many of us have day jobs, school, family to take care of, or a dozen other responsibilities that demand our time and attention. This leaves us with precious littleContinue reading “3 Tips for Writing When You Don’t Have Much Time”

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How to Make Time to Write

When people hear that I’m publishing a book, one of the most common questions I get is “How do you find time to write??” It’s not really one of the questions I expected to hear so much once people in my real life found out I’ve written a book, but I realized that’s mostly becauseContinue reading “How to Make Time to Write”