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Fun for Friday: WonderbookNow

| January 17, 2025

I’ve just starting tackling Wonderbook as my next craft book read, and though I’ve only gotten through a bit of it, I’m loving it! One of the things included as a companion to the book is WonderbookNow, a website containing additional resources for folks as they go through the book. And within that site is The […]

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 […]

Halfway through The Wayward Writer

| December 11, 2023

Back in January of this year, I decided to start working through the exercises in Ariel Gore’s The Wayward Writer. The book contains 78 exercises, which is enough to fill a year and a half if you do them weekly. Because of planned trips in 2023, I took a handful of weeks off from doing exercises, […]