Critique Partner Horror Stories: Red Flags & Relationship Ruins

It’s emotionally risky, this writing business, so please respect your time, protect your energy, and cherish those CPs you hope to keep.

Boundaries & Benefits: Crafting with Critique Partners (AuthorToolbox)

Writing is hard, but it shouldn’t be lonely. From idea creation to final product, input from critique partners is priceless.

Writing for Reasons – AuthorToolbox

“Words were treasures, scribbled in secret.”

5 Things To Do Before You Beta Your Book #AuthorToolboxBlogHop

I believe in the beta process the way toddlers believe in Bandaids. Betas make books better, and better books make happier readers who read more books. But what you get out of your beta, and where your story goes in revision, is up to you, not your readers.

Review: The Emotional Wound Thesaurus

If you get nothing else out of this review, go buy this book just to read this one page. If that doesn’t spike your curiosity, your Human may be malfunctioning. #sorrynotsorry

Another Kind of Conference

Thank you, Tribe. I am so grateful for Tribe Con and to every one involved for sharing your stories (and smiles and tears and chocolate) with me.

Four Ways to Write Through the Fog #AuthorToolboxBlogHop

When I get stuck on a writing project, it feels exactly like driving through fog—I can’t see far enough ahead to feel comfortable where I am, the clear road behind is as shrouded as the way forward, and there’s no telling when some swift insight will blow through so I can go back to “normal.”

#CPMatch Is Almost Here!

One of my favorite Twitter events is in just two days! #CPMatch comes this Friday, August 25.

Personal Lessons from #Pitchwars 2017 #AuthorToolboxBlogHop

Fair warning: Some of these lessons might be carryovers from 2016, while I was lurking and cheering on friends. And there are a gazillion great lessons to learn from a contest like Pitchwars, but these are mine for now (and counting!). Subjectivity in Story I thought subjectivity was something I fully understood. I’ve even *gulp* blogged […]

All the Unmentioned Awesomeness

I happen to enjoy writing synopses (I know it’s weird) because of the clarity they bring, but sometimes the best, most exciting bits get lost in translation.