06.30.26

What a Book’s Size Promises: Prose Craft Lessons from Novel Length and Poetry

An intricate watercolor and colored pencil botanical illustration of various heirloom eggplants by artist Jean Emmons. The composition features a rich variety of shapes, scales, and textures—from deep purple Italian types and striped Fairytale varieties to tiny, ribbed orange Turkish eggplants—visually representing how different manuscript lengths and literary forms require distinct structural styles to honor their unique promises to the reader.
06.23.26

What Basketball and Bad Heels Teach Writers About Style

Taylor Swift and a crowd cheer enthusiastically in the stands wearing blue New York Knicks-themed t-shirts that read "STEVIE KNICKS" and "NICKOLE KIDMAN." This playful sports and pop-culture mashup illustrates how embracing your own unexpected instincts forms the foundation of an authentic, recognizable writing style.
06.09.26

How to Get Book Reviews As An Indie Author

A woman in a striped swimsuit sits on a playground structure, absorbed in a copy of Ulysses by James Joyce — evoking the everyday, unexpected places readers find books, and the power of getting your own book into readers' hands through strategic indie book reviews.
06.02.26

From Metalworking to Pinot Noir: Finding Your Writing Voice

The album cover of Iron & Wine's Our Endless Numbered Days, featuring an illustrated portrait of a bearded man lying peacefully in lush green grass, evoking the soft, unhurried, organically developed voice a writer grows into over time
05.26.26

How to Research a Novel without Losing Your Mind—or Your Manuscript

A black-and-white still from the Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last," showing a bespectacled man surrounded by towering stacks of books in a post-apocalyptic setting, representing the writer's fantasy of finally having unlimited time to read and write — and the reality that never quite arrives
05.19.26

Find Time to Write Even When You’re Bone-Tired

Henri Rousseau's The Sleeping Gypsy (1897), depicting a roaming musician asleep under a full moon while a lion looms watchfully nearby, evoking the precarious, dreamlike state of a writer trying to protect their creative life from the demands that circle in the night
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