Directory of Posts
Looking for advice on something specific? Take a look through the categories here. More categories to be added as needed.
Community — the writing community, how to find one, why you need one, and yes, even if you are a weirdo introvert like the rest of us
Craft — the craft of writing, the nerdy ins and outs of writing a story well
Feeling Stuck — we all get paralyzed in our writing sometimes, or even most of the time
Finding Yourself — owning being a writer, finding your voice, trusting your instincts
MFAs — if you’re thinking about, or recovering from, a Masters in Fine Arts in creative writing
Money — money issues for writers, which is mostly that we don’t make any from writing, but day jobs take up too much time
Newsletter Stuff — specific to this newsletter; I literally do not know why you’d want to read this, but here it is
Novel Writing — writing long-form narratives, and the weird trickery that entails
Publishing — that thing when other people see our writing and hopefully pay us for it
Rejection — that thing when other people see our writing and say nope
Revision — writing is rewriting, or in other words, why you must do this all over again and why that is not a bad thing
Time — the thing no writer seems to ever have enough of, but somehow we have time for Netflix and phone games
Why Write At All? — for those existential angst moments
Writing vs. The World — the challenges of being a creative writer in a world that does not support creative work