Category: Creative Process
Reflections on creativity, craft techniques, and my journey.
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Taking the Day Off
2–3 minutesUnless I have a deadline coming up, I don’t usually work weekends. Nothing for clients, no social media scheduling, not even working on my manuscript. My days off are reserved for the normal stuff people do. But sometimes we do something a little special and take a day off to go on a special adventure.
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Work-Life Balance: Leaving Work at Work
4–5 minutesI regularly go through old posts to fix any out-of-date information and prune anything that has lost its relevance or value. When I find an older story that still has something to offer, I add a short note about why it resonates with me now. This post is from when I worked full-time for a…
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How to Be a Writer
2–3 minutesIf you want to know how to be a writer, think more about why you want to be a writer. Figure out what drives you to write. Do things that work with your energy, not against it.
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Don’t Let the Void Destroy Success and Other Good Feels
3–4 minutesFor those who wonder how my actual writing is going, it’s awesome. Really. I might even start talking about it again in between posts on digital marketing. But the important thing is that things are happening. And I’m excited. Even if The Void is being loud.
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I Nearly Lost my Only Complete Manuscript Draft
3–4 minutesI needed to open an older draft of Thieves to look for a scene I wanted to rework into the new version. This file was totally fine last week when I had it open to pull a different scene. But not today. No, today it was corrupted. And entirely unopenable.
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Draft First, Outline Later
4–6 minutesMy main struggle with following an outline is that if things don’t feel natural when I’m writing, I get an itchy feeling under my fingernails. I can’t force myself to write through something I know isn’t going to work.
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