Category Writing It Well

You can say it out loud and it lands. You write it down and it goes stiff. The reason is not talent, and the fix takes about ten minutes.

Most people who finish books were never "writers" either. Here is what the job actually asks of you, and why you have been doing most of it for years.

If you have rewritten the same chapter eleven times, the problem is not the chapter. Here is the test that ends the loop, and why the feeling you are waiting for never comes.

Your chapters are true and they still lose the reader. Usually the problem is not the content. It is that you have been trained to end things too well.

Almost every first book stalls in the same place. Here are the real reasons — and how to begin again without starting over.

When the hardest season of your life becomes the truest thing you'll ever write — a gentle word on grief, timing, and honest pages.