How to Get Professional Feedback on Your Writing  O'Dell Isaac was a substitute teacher and military journalist who struggled for years to write a novel. A decade went by without any progress towards writing or publishing a book. Then, in November of 2018, he managed...

How to Confidently Start Your Publishing Journey After she retired, Clara Fay finally listened to the inner voice telling her to write. She was able to finish a manuscript and even had a developmental editor go through her work. Thinking her manuscript was ready, she...

Writing Anxiety Got Your Tongue?Kate Godfrey discovered her passion for writing when she was just a young girl. Like many writers, she had always dreamed of living the author lifestyle, but didn’t know how to make this dream a reality. Before I met Kate, she was...

How to Get Qualified and Personalized Feedback On Your WritingMany writers dream of writing a complete novel, but don’t know how. They either don’t know where to start or they get feedback from the wrong people. Barbara Pattee, unfortunately, has had her share of...

How to Get Your Novel From Finished to Publishable Emily Weinberg dabbled with writing short stories for younger children for years. She had a vision of writing a novel set in ancient Egypt. Although she was able to finish writing her story, publishing remained a...

How to Finally Finish Writing Your Novel Steve Cummins always dreamed of writing a novel. He began his writing journey at the age of 22. But, like many writers, Steve found that he just couldn’t finish a manuscript. Life got in the way. Before he knew it, over twenty...

How to Find Your Best Writer  Maria Chapman described herself as a normal everyday woman–until she turned 35 and developed a neuromuscular disease, an event which ended her career and essentially took away her hobbies.  However, Maria took her own experiences and...

How to Finish Writing Your Novel in Seven Weeks Hannah Johnson always dreamed of finishing a novel and had tried time and time again.Despite being enrolled in writing courses, she felt like her novel was getting nowhere. She was getting mixed feedback and, sometimes,...

Transformation vs. Information Are you lost down the google rabbit hole?I see so many writers search the internet for answers to their writing problems. It’s great to have the impulse to be resourceful, to be looking for answers yourself. After all, we do want to be...

What Does it Take to Write a Novel? Writers often ask me this same question whenever I’m speaking at writing conferences all around the world:“What do you really need to write a novel?” Or, conversely, they say: “I’ve always wanted to write a novel. It's always been a...