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Preptober, NaNoWriMo, & Social Media Content Calendars
Need help getting ready for NaNoWriMo? The Preptober calendar is here to help you whether you're a plotter, pantser, or plantser. Track...
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How to Find Your Character's Voice
Voice is hard. It's one of the major factors that gets critiqued by agents (and your readers). You have your own author voice and...
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Notion for Writers
Notion is an organization and productivity tool that can be used on a desktop or via the app.
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Writing Craft Book Tips
These are my biggest take-away tips after reading five writing craft novels.
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How to Critique like a Mentor
After receiving feedback from a few mentors and directly asking them how they critique, I put together a blog detailing their thoughts.
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Choosing Your Outline Method
Here's a list of outlining methods to help you outline your book.
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How to Create a Brand on Instagram
Creating a brand helps readers associate you with your content. This post takes you through colors, items, and more to create your brand.
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Instagram Content Ideas
Instagram post ideas and story ideas to grow your author platform and brand.
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Contemporary World Building
Contemporary world building tips through setting, characters, and culture.
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How To Read While Writing a Novel
Do you struggle to find time to read while writing your novel? Emily and I give 12 tips on how to read more while writing.
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Creating Character Personalities
You want a likeable and relateable MC. You also want all your characters to be different from each other, unique, and distinguishable...
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Where to Find Agents & Who to Query
There are many resources for finding agents and narrowing down who should make your query list. Where to Find Agents Look at books that...
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The Differences between Middle Grade & Young Adult
There is some grey area when it comes to if your story is Middle Grade or Young Adult. In this post I'll walk you through how to decide...
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A List of Subplots to Use in Your Book
Subplots are great tools to add depth, details, and tension to your story. They help develop your characters and show readers more about...
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A List of Tropes to Use in Your Book
A trope is a commonly recurring device to showcase your plot, characters, theme, etc. Many of them have become cliches, many are now...
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A List of Themes to Use in Your Book
A theme is the underlying message or big idea in your story. There are also minor themes that can be in your story as well. The theme can...
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Critique Partner & Beta Reader Feedback
Once your developmental and line edits are complete it's time for feedback! Where to Find CPs & BRs: Do an announcement on Instagram,...
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Line Edits and Filter Words
Now that you've completed your developmental edits , it's time to hunker down and do line edits. I'll walk you through my process and...
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How To Do Developmental Edits
As seen in the Types of Edits blog , Developmental Edits cover your big picture things. This is where those Character Profile Templates,...
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The Types of Edits
So, you've written your first draft, now what? Now you begin the intensive process of making it shine. Whether for self-editing, or...
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