Should You Challenge Yourself to Improve?
3 ways writing challenges can ACTUALLY help you improve as a storyteller with examples from daily writing and short story contests to 50K word mega challenges.
I Forgot They Weren’t Real People: 5 Ways to Make Your Stories Feel Real
How to make your audience forget your characters aren’t real. 5 ways you can use what you know to make your stories feel real with examples from Kat.
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Art Imitates Life: My 5 Examples of Writing What You Know From my Own Stories
They say “Write what you know.” But that advice is often too vague to be helpful. Instead here’s 5 examples of how I used this advice in my own stories.
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A Tale as Old as Time…But Make it Queer: 3 Ways to Adapt Classics to Feature LGBTQ Characters
3 ways to adapt fairytales and classics to feature LGBTQ characters with 6 examples from Historical to Epic Fantasy to Contemporary Romance and more!
The Dreaded Blank Page Syndrome: 3 Writer’s Block Solutions
The question on every writer’s mind whether they be newbie or pro at some point is: How do I solve my Writer’s Block? Here’s 3 ways to solve yours!
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But Which One WAS the Hot One?: Why Diversity Matters in Our Heteronormative World
In a world that demands conformity, realizing you’re different can be alienating. So here’s 4 ways to include queer characters in your next story.
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When Happily Ever After is Just the BEGINNING of the Story: 5 Examples of How to Write a Post Ever After Story
5 examples of how to start a story from the point we’d traditionally consider the end (and then go somewhere entirely different from there).
A Mermaid by Any Other Name: 6 Mermaid-adjacent Creatures For Your Next fin-tastical Tale
How much do you ACTUALLY know about mermaids? A mini catalog of mermaid-adjacent creatures to help you write your fin-tastical tale this summer.
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Bookcards: The Most Brilliant Book Promo I Ever Created
This fantastic, simple to make piece of book promo I created fits in your pocket! – 15 page How-to PDF + Canva template FREE download.
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The First Draft is Just You Telling Yourself the Story
How what I learned on baseball field at 7 and the immortal words of Sir Terry Pratchett are strangely similar and damn useful as a storyteller.
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Maybe we SHOULD talk about Bruno: When Storytelling Promotes a Toxic Message
How catchy songs and dazzling visuals can distract us from a toxic message lurking beneath the surface. Or how Encanto screwed over Bruno.
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Alien. Robot. Psychopath: A Look at Media’s Fraught History with Autistic Representation
It’s Autistic Awareness Month, so let’s look at narrative media’s fraught history with representation in TV & motives & their efforts to do better.
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What Do You Write When Signing Books For Readers?
One of the top things sure to give you anxiety before your first book signing? What do you write when signing books for readers? Get my answer…
Why Waiting for “Inspiration” is the Road to Ruin
Why waiting for the Goddess of Storytelling to bop you on the head is the worst idea ever — Or how I went from blank pages to 5K word writing days.
The 3 Qs to Answer before Starting Your Next Story
The 3 simple questions to ask yourself next time you get a story idea to take you from What now? To I got this! So you can get writing.
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5 Easy Ways to Make a Retelling Your Own
5 easy ways to make a retelling uniquely your own with modern examples of stories adapted from Shakespeare.
You Too Can Become the Legendary Character of Your Own Story
How I learned to look at misfortune differently, and how, with a change of perspective, you too can become the Legendary Character of your own story.
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3 Things To Do When You’re Too Tired to Summon the Will to Write
Ever get to the end of the week and you’re just too tired to write? Here’s 3 Solutions so you’ll still feel accomplished even during your downtime.
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