Curious people make good nonfiction writers. Today, professional writer Deb Hemley (@dhemley) gives us a broad overview of how combining curiosity, creativity, and craft will help you write good—even great—nonfiction. Do you ever wonder where the sparks for your stories come from, or why you can’t let go of specific ideas once they’ve entered your mind? What pushes you to…
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Holiday downtime can prove enormously productive for writers—especially those who begin to focus on writing projects they might want to take on in the New Year. In this guest post, book editor C.K. Bush (@theladyck) provides tips on how to use that downtime to brainstorm and evaluate new writing projects. The end of the year is a great time to…
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If your inner critic regularly stops your attempts to write, it’s time to get the upper hand. Today Emmanuel Nataf (@EmmanuelNataf), co-founder of Reedsy, provides the basic steps to get your writing flowing by using a tried-and-true technique that keeps the critic at bay. Your greatest enemy and critic when writing is often yourself. While there are countless articles and…
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The end of the year can feel like an impossible time to write daily. There’s holiday shopping and cooking to do, parties to attend, and, for some people, travel plans to complete. Your regular writing schedule seems to get disrupted entirely from Thanksgiving until the first week of January. Many writers participate in 30-day writing challenges in November. If you…
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You set a goal—write a book in 30 days. And you’ve been writing every day, cranking out the words and moving toward meeting your deadline. And then…life happens. Your kids (or you) get sick. Someone close to you dies. A natural disaster occurs. The basement floods. Your boss throws a new project at you that is due ASAP. Your car…
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