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20 Quotes for Writers for 2025

The Best Books I Read in 2024

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5 Questions to Ask Yourself When Setting 2025 Writing Goals

Liminal Space: A Poem

The Benefits of Free Writing

Around the Christmas Tree

How to Read More Books this Week, and Next

Black Nativity

Book Review: A Home for the Holidays

At the Cabin in Winter

Five Easy Ways to Keep Writing During the Holidays

Book Review: Patriot

Up in the Sky

My 2025 Writing and Reading Goals

Will 2025 be the year of the revenge trope?

Weekly Recap: December 9-15

Midnight: A Poem

What Every Bookworm Wants for Christmas

Yes.

What to gift writers for the holidays, or whenever.

Free Write: Gifting

RE: 'Brain Rot'

Weekly Recap: December 2-8

Winter Wonderland

Why You Should Read More Holiday Fiction This Year

Before I stepped aboard...

Stop trying to speed up the writing process.

Underneath the Mistletoe

Should we revive letter writing?

Weekly Recap: November 25-December 1

A Winter Poem

Start your daily writing habit today.

The Last Supper

How to Be Thankful for the Writing Process Again

Evergreens

Should you keep a journal?

Weekly Recap: November 18-24

Power Off

Should reading make you feel happy?

Strange

Drafts: How many are too many?

Free Write: Rage

All writing is political.

Weekly Recap: November 11th-17th

Frozen Lake

Book Recommendations with a Feminist Perspective

Burn: A Poem

Writing with Grit

Witch

Stressed? Keep writing.

Updates...

Day One Post Election and The Jumbled Vocabulary It Brings

Liberty: A Poem

Book Review: Democracy Awakening

Why I Unsubscribed from The Washington Post

Free Write: Terror

Book Review: Sleep Tight

Notes on Writing and Identity (Part 2)

At the Masquerade

Book Review: Oath and Honor

4 Reasons to Read More Horror

Free Write: Autumn

Book Review: The Return of Ellie Black

Notes on Writing and Identity

The Rose Bush

Book Review: By Any Other Name

No Posts in September

Book Review: The Moor's Account

3 Simple Things to Do to Combat Writer's Block

Makeup Artist

Book Review: The Truths We Hold

Should novels go beyond mere entertainment?

The Abandoned House

Book Review: Catalina

Does writing alter your mood or does your mood alter your writing?

Free Write: Competitiveness

Book Review: Age of Revolutions

5 Simple Ways to Read More

Into the River

Book Review: Martyr!

Do daily writing quotas work?

Free Write: Peace

Book Review: The Fifth Season

When and How to Speed Read

Before she slammed the door...

Book Review: Uncanny Valley

What qualifies as ‘real’ writing research?

And then the riot started.

Book Review: Swiped

The Cons of Mood Reading

The Photographer

Book Review: State of Terror

How to Write a Good Character Profile

Summer Night

Book Review: The Book of Two Ways

Audiobooks are real books. Period.

At Sea: A Poem

Book Review: One-Star Romance

Do you find your audience, or do they find you?

Angry Woman

Book Review: Recoding America

How many books should you be reading?

As she looked up at the stars…

Book Review: When Women Were Dragons

Notes on Writing, Creatives, Language, and AI

When she ran...

Book Review: Parable of the Sower

A Brief Note on Book Bans

Poisoned

Book Review: Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

Honing Your Ideal Writing Environment

Free Write: Freedom

Book Review: The Candy House

After he lit the candle...

How I Avoid Reading Ruts

User Error

Book Review: Freedom's Just Another Word

How do the historical narratives we tell affect the present?

Flight: A Poem

Book Review: First Lie Wins

Why I Refuse to Be a Book Snob

Love Letter

Book Review: Honey

How to Stay Organized as a Writer

Why is everyone obsessed with Bridgerton?

At the concert...

Book Review: The Ministry of Time

Read at Your Own Pace

Free Write: Prosperity

Book Review: Because Internet

Six Things to Avoid When Writing Book Reviews

Beach

Book Review: 2054

Beach Reads Have Value

Death on Vacation

Book Review: Real Americans

Why and How I Finish Every Book I Start

The Presentation

Book Review: Annie Bot

What qualities should classic novels have?

At the Gala

Book Review: The Frozen River

Is writing therapeutic?

The Snake

Book Review: Knife

The Significance of Book Clubs

The Dream

Book Review: The Paradise Problem

Be vulnerable. Share your writing.

Writing: A Poem

Book Review: Mercury

This Mother's Day...

Reflection: Social Media You Meets IRL You

The Wind: A Poem

Book Review: Parasol Against the Axe

Poetize Your Life

Lakeside

How to Build Intimacy in What You Write

Book Review: Funny Story

Meet Cute: The Fair

Is writing supposed to be lonely?

Book Review: Burner

At the Library

Ten Positive Side Effects of Reading Every Day

Book Review: Unthinkable

Free Write: Hope

An Eclipse: A Poem

20 Useful Phrases for Writers to Remember

Book Review: The Women

Murder on a Train

I am a writer, not a brand. Right?

Book Review: Memory Piece

Free Write: Power

6 Tips for Editing Your Own Writing

Is reading political?

Book Review: Pineapple Street

Postcards

Outlines: Yay or Nay?

Book Review: Cultish

At the Eiffel Tower

Is spirituality akin to creativity?

Book Review: Until August

We need more utopic fiction. Or maybe something like it...

When I stepped into the room...

Propaganda in the Twenty-First Century

Utopia

What is 'good' writing?

Thoughts on Posthumous Publishing

Reflection: Photo Editing

Fake Names for Real Places and People in Novels: Good or Bad?

In Six Months: A Poem

You should write every day. Here’s how and why.

At the Fountain

Don't wait. Start now.

Free Write: Home

What is Literary Fiction?

Still Life with Raspberries

How do you pick a title for a WIP?

After Super Tuesday...

Reflection: Your Social Media Experiences and You