Instead of sprinting toward 50,000 words this year for NaNoWriMo, I challenged myself to edit and upload chapters of my novel The Strange Case onto Wattpad throughout the month. Here’s how it went.

Learn more about the direction I’m taking with my Strange Case project and be sure to read it on Wattpad.

World builder Nathan Mangion discusses how his world of Elyden got started, the essentials for constructing a world, its cultures, and its histories, and he shows how mapmaking and storytelling go hand-in-hand.

Even though feeling unmotivated is normal, it’s important to develop strategies for staying productive. Here are two strategies I’ve been using to help me stay productive, even when I don’t feel like writing.

When we think of a “professional” we think about a person who is paid X to do Y. And to extent this is true. But what if being a professional writer is actually more of a mindset?

When it comes to creativity, we see the end product, hear the success story, listen the to the challenges that had to be overcome after the fact. But we rarely see the struggle in the moment and this needs to change.

This craft essay looks at three key ingredients for crafting characters with agency, using Nimue from Thomas Wheeler and Frank Miller’s fantasy novel Cursed as a primary example.

Another week, another assignment from my LitReactor class. This week's focus is to gather resources for my novel idea.

Get a peek at the elevator pitch for the project I’m working on for the LitReactor course I’m taking with Rob Hart.