Writers, Go With Your Gut and Bring Out the Big Emotion
carriejonesbooks A lot of the times that Carrie works with writers, she notices that they are pulling back from the emotion that is happening in the story. Instead of allowing the…
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Writers, Be Simple
We’ve all heard the statistics: Writers take ten years to get their first novel published, on average The average children’s book writer makes 5k a year, if she’s lucky. If…
Dogs Are Smarter Than People Podcast – First Drafts Suck, But It’s Okay
Hard writer truth time: First drafts suck. Almost everything stinks the first time you do it. That’s because it’s THE FIRST time you do it. But, we tend to expect…
First Drafts Suck But So Do A Ton of Other Things
Hard writer truth time: First drafts suck. Almost everything stinks the first time you do it. That’s because it’s THE FIRST time you do it. But, we tend to expect…
My Writing Goal is to be on a Doctor Who Episode. That makes total sense, right?
Writer Sara Zarr once gave a brilliant speech about how it is the process of writing that should give you the love feeling, not if you make it on a…