Worldwide NaNoWriMo writers produce finished first drafts Are you ready for the biggest writing competition ever? Blast through your fear and produce that needed first draft that is boiling and roiling inside you. Tease out that coy, bashful story that’s tickled and teased you for years. Throw caution to the wind. Sit down and let […]

What writer doesn’t love writing rituals? They are creative habits that inspire, motivate, and cultivate the very act that defines them. Rituals help build a fortress that allows the writer to inhabit the fictive world they are creating or fall into the rapid stream of words that spill onto the page. Ritual—”a sequence of activities […]

NaNoWriMo writing challenge, are you ready? The NaNoWriMo writing challenge begins November 1st. It’s not too soon or too late to begin prepping for the upcoming writing contest of the year. I’ve been participating off and on since it began. Sometimes I go for one full manuscript or work to complete fifty thousand words of […]