Originally written: Oct. 1, 2019
Updated: Feb. 18, 2025
We’re down to a month until NaNoWriMo, and Preptober has officially begun! As we officially enter writing challenge mode, I’d like to share a handful of tips and tricks that have helped me achieve success with NaNoWriMo and other writing challenges and will hopefully help you, whether it’s your first time participating in a writing challenge or your fifteenth. Continue reading “6 Tips and Tricks for Writing Challenge Success”
Full disclosure: I don’t read writing books as much as I maybe should. I tend to wing things, or read blog posts, or take courses (mostly wing things… I’m working on it). But I do have a pretty decent writing resource library, and I have actually read a few of the books in it, and they’re worth recommending, so here are five writing books that I’ve found helpful. Continue reading “5 Favorite Writing Reference Books”
Do you have a friend or family member who’s an indie author? Have you ever wanted to support their work but been unsure how? Here are five ways you can help support them and their work. Continue reading “5 Ways to Support Indie Authors”
Last Monday the Go Teen Writers 100-for-100 Challenge began, which is a challenge to write 100 words each day for 100 days. So far it’s been a huge boost for me and it’s gotten me actually putting my butt in the chair and my fingers to the keyboard for the past nine days (with one exception). Not only is it helping me boost the word count of my current project, but it’s also helping me to do something that almost every writing blog will tell you to do: build a writing habit. This is something I’ve always struggled with, but I’ve discovered a couple of tips that have helped me maintain my habit over the past week. Continue reading “5 Tips for Keeping a Writing Habit”
As a character-driven author whose stories almost always come into being due to a cool character who took up residence in my brain, characters are something I often create by a subconscious process rather than by consciously fleshing them out. That’s why, for so long, roleplaying was a huge part of my character development process. Over the past few months, however, my character-building process has become more conscious and I’ve been able to identify some details that help make more engaging, realistic characters. Here are five details to think about when creating your characters. Continue reading “5 Traits of Realistic Characters”