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How to Show Your Character Is Healing from an Emotional Wound

August 7, 2025

How to Show Your Character Is Healing from an Emotional Wound

August 7, 2025

When it comes to writing a story where a character is going to work through a difficult past wound, there are two behavioral states to convey: one showing their brokenness…

Amazing Resources for Neurodivergent Writers

August 5, 2025

Amazing Resources for Neurodivergent Writers

August 5, 2025

My last post highlighted Writing Tips for the Neurodivergent Brain, but what about writing resources and tools? What sorts of “helpers” are out there to help people with not-so-great executive…

How to Amp up Your Story Setting

July 31, 2025

How to Amp up Your Story Setting

July 31, 2025

Taking the time to choose the right setting for each scene is one of the best ways to ensure our writing has impact. Why? Because the setting touches everything. It…

How to Fictionalize Your Family

July 29, 2025

How to Fictionalize Your Family

July 29, 2025

Linda Ulleseit, an award-winning author of historical fiction, shares tips and tricks for fictionalizing your family. Everyone has a story! The themes that run through family stories can have universal…

Tap into Your Character’s Unmet Need to Strengthen Your Story

July 24, 2025

Tap into Your Character’s Unmet Need to Strengthen Your Story

July 24, 2025

Life can be painful, especially for our characters. In fact, the fallout of an emotionally wounding event such as a car accident, failing to save someone’s life, infertility, or being…

How to Use Hidden Experiences to Pull Readers In

July 22, 2025

How to Use Hidden Experiences to Pull Readers In

July 22, 2025

No matter who your protagonist is—a formidable galactic emperor, a morally complex teenager, or the retiree down the street with too many cats—readers must find something fundamentally relatable about them,…

Phenomenal First Pages Contest – Guest Editor Edition

July 17, 2025

Phenomenal First Pages Contest – Guest Editor Edition

July 17, 2025

Hey, wonderfulwriterly people! It’s time for Phenomenal First Pages, our monthly critique contest. So, if you need a bit of help with your first five pages, today’s the day to…

Writing 101: Avoiding Purple Prose

July 15, 2025

Writing 101: Avoiding Purple Prose

July 15, 2025

Purple prose is one of those writing problems that’s easy to see in someone else’s work but hard to spot in our own. Simply put, this writing is overly elaborate…

How to Find Symbols in Your Settings

July 10, 2025

How to Find Symbols in Your Settings

July 10, 2025

We all want our writing to be layered. Like a gourmet meal, we want there to be more to them than just what’s seen on the surface. In stories, this…

Behind the Scenes: A Day in the Life of a Cowriting Team

July 8, 2025

Behind the Scenes: A Day in the Life of a Cowriting Team

July 8, 2025

Learn about a day in the life of a cowriting team with Resident Writing Coach Christina Delay and her writing partner, Julie Glover. We’re often asked why and how we…