by Stephanie Dethlefs | Jun 14, 2022 | Accountability, First Draft, Mindset, writing life
Who supports you in your writing goals? Who is giving you regular feedback? Who is your writing community? In this look back at an older episode, we are busting the myth that writers need to work in isolation, and building ourselves a team to help us from the first...
by Stephanie Dethlefs | Jun 13, 2022 | Audience, First Draft, Planning your book, Revision
Have you ever read or heard a story that left you uninterested or unengaged or just plain bored? A trap that novelists can easily fall into is that of not knowing (or not sharing) what the novel is really about. In this episode we are exploring what questions to ask...
by Stephanie Dethlefs | May 24, 2022 | Accountability, Inner critic, Mindset, writing life
What does your commitment to writing a novel look like? This is what we’ll revisit with this past episode. Without commitment, it won’t get done. But what does that really mean? Let’s explore what commitment is and how to evaluate your own (with zero...
by Stephanie Dethlefs | May 17, 2022 | First Draft, Planning your book
Knowing where your novel starts and ends provides structure, efficiency and focus within your novel-writing journey. In this episode, we explore three strategies for making these early decisions in a way that feels true and right for your story. Transcript: Hello...
by Stephanie Dethlefs | Dec 14, 2021 | Character Development, First Draft, Planning your book, Revision, writing craft
Why do your protagonist and other characters make the decisions that they do in your story? How do you keep those decisions from running away with your plot? Whether we’re talking the big decisions, those actions that change the course of the story, and the...
