What you really need to know is that Writing Battle includes 5 basic phases: writing, waiting, judging, reading, and results.

This was supposed to be a blog post about putting down a project, and why it’s okay to press pause when you don’t know how to proceed. But instead, it’s about how morning pages ended a ten-month hiatus from my WIP.

7. “Beta readers are strangers who want to hurt you.”

My top 7 takeaways from the PNWA Conference, including the #1 mistake in opening pages, what makes people buy your next book, querying advice, and more.

While trying to decide on my career path at seventeen, I came across an odd bit of wisdom in a playwriting course. A Serious Writer stated matter-of-factly that no writer wants to write. No writer chooses this path. Writers write because they have to. They have no other choice.

Oh, I thought. I guess I’m not a writer. I don’t have to write. I can envision other futures.