Angela, Becca and I hope you’re having an amazing holiday season full of family, friends, good food and special memories. We are so grateful for your visits, kind words of support, and trust in us. We love serving the writing community through this blog, One Stop for Writers, books, and teaching.

We’re tucking Writers Helping Writers in for a well-earned rest until 2025. But we want to make sure you have plenty to read during our break…so we’ll leave you with delicious recipes to try and helpful posts to browse.

Did You Get Your Stocking Stuffers?

*Polishing a manuscript
*Story stakes tracker

Thank you for making 2024 extra-special!

We can’t thank each of you enough for visiting, commenting, entering our contests, and being a special part of the Writers Helping Writers Family.

Huge thanks to our amazing Resident Writing Coaches, guest editors for contests, and guest posters. With your help, we’ve been able to share a huge variety of topics and some incredible prizes. We can’t wait to see what 2025 will bring for everyone.

Into Some Bite-Sized Learning Over the Holidays? Try These:

Writing Tools
Checklists and Tip Sheets
First Page Resources
Characters
Plot and Structure
Worldbuilding and Setting
Show-Don’t-Tell
Other Story Elements (including theme and symbolism, point of view, voice, pacing, dialogue, etc.)
Revisions and Editing
Creativity & Mindset
Business of Writing
Resident Writing Coach posts

We’re Each Gifting a
Favorite Recipe to You

We can’t wait to find out what you think of some of our favorite recipes! You’re welcome to share some of your own, too. It’s always fun to test out new recipes. ?

Angela’s Recipe

Becca’s Recipe

Mindy’s Recipe

This came out amazing! Next time, I’ll make it with full candied cherries up top instead of the fruit mix.

Paying it Forward

One of my favorite things about Angela and Becca is how much they do to help others. They’ve always had a pay-it-forward mentality, which is why this site is loaded with free tools, downloads, and resources. But helping beyond the writing community is something they believe in as well. Each year they select a specific charity (or two) and donate a portion of their book revenue to it. For more information on this year’s recipient, see this blog post.

Here’s the 2024 Recipient

This is only possible through your generosity, so know when you buy books, subscribe to One Stop for Writers, or attend a workshop, you are an important link in the chain. Thank you for helping to make the world a better place!

Happy holidays!

Mindy Weiss

Mindy Alyse Weiss is a glitter-loving kid at heart and serves as WHW’s Administrator. When she’s not keeping things organized around here, she’s writing middle-grade novels, picture books, and mentoring writers through PBParty chats, draft challenges, and annual contests. (Mindy also does picture book critiques, too!) She is represented by Joyce Sweeney at The Seymour Agency.