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WriteHive Online Conference 2024: Tarot for Writers

| January 6, 2025

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! I enjoyed Kris Waldherr’s presentation on “Tarot for Writers,” which was a neat look at the ways in […]

Completing Millions of Suns

| December 30, 2024

Over the past several months, I’ve been working my way through Millions of Suns: On Writing and Life by Sharon Fagan McDermott and M. C. Benner Dixon. While it’s very different from the last craft book that I worked through, it includes writing exercises alongside the twelve chapters, making it a great read for authors who […]

Completing The Wayward Writer!

| September 9, 2024

Throughout 2023 and most of 2024, I worked through the entirety of Ariel Gore’s The Wayward Writer. I took a few weeks off here and there for vacations, but I basically spent 78 weeks working through one exercise a week. I talked a little bit about hitting the halfway point here. Overall, I found the entire […]

Free Worksheets for Writers

| March 27, 2023

I love sharing free resources for authors, like these worksheets by Jami Gold and other authors! There are worksheets for story, plot, characters, and more craft things, as well as worksheets for business aspects of writing. Take a look and see if there’s something there you can use!