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WriteHive Online Conference 2024: Breaking the Rules–The Path to Authentic Writing

| December 9, 2024

Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! Lisa Wood’s presentation on “Breaking the Rules–The Path to Authentic Writing” covered a number of the so-called “rules” […]

WriteHive Online Conference 2024: Tell Me a Story: Exploring Narrative Styles

| November 25, 2024

Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! “Tell Me a Story: Exploring Narrative Styles” was a great panel on writing stories in ways that are […]

WriteHive Online Confererence 2024: Worldbuilding in Real World Settings

| November 4, 2024

Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! “Worldbuilding in Real World Settings” was an interesting discussion on what parts of worldbuilding you still need to […]

WriteHive Online Conference 2024: Creating Compelling Characters

| September 23, 2024

Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! Author Brieanna Wilkoff gave a presentation titled “Creating Compelling Characters” that broke down a system for how she […]