Last week, I made the difficult decision to switch mental health providers. I wasn’t getting what I needed out of our sessions. We spent the majority of the time discussing current events and arguing about various things. They liked to tell me things, and I felt like I wasn’t being heard. My love of reading ...

November is a time for good food, embracing body hair, and the start of the holiday season. Starbucks comes out with their holiday drinks just in time for me to drown my writing woes in Caramel Brûlée. Nanowrimo is here. The time of year when I question if this was the correct career choice because ...

One of the funniest aspects of my writing is I am a perfectionist. The ideal scenario is that a scene will pop into my head, and I can write it down and fix a few grammar errors. Usually, I have a few plot points to piece together, or I have to discover everything that happens ...

An author friend and I recently created our own writing retreat. Neither one of us has had much time to work on our novels recently, so we spent the night at a local bed-and-breakfast and stayed up late drinking wine and writing. We both feel we got a significant amount of work done during this ...

Seasoned writing conference attendees share insight on etiquette, relationship building, a few faux pas, and that thing on everyone’s mind — the pitch.

Tap into your creativity and flesh out the details of your plot with the help of a Tarot spread and the Seven Point Story Structure.

This is my short review of a small selection of self-editing software.

Using tarot to breathe life into a character can help shape both the relationships as well as the plot.

I have a confession: I’m a writing newsletter addict. Every time I see one of those pop-up boxes, I sign up and confirm I’m a human a few times a day. It’s not shocking I like to read! I get subscriber’s remorse later as I open my inbox. I only have 24 hours a day ...

Suss out the shape of your story with tarot as a guide. Use two and three-card tarot spreads to focus your writing.