You finished the first full draft of your manuscript and now you…just…can’t imagine ever getting out of this chair. “It’s like deflating—like an old party balloon that’s gone kinda floopy,” says writer and book coach Vicky Quinn Fraser.  You worked so hard for so long to get your book done and now it’s out in the world and you’re…kind of […]

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the World Around Us by Ed Yong Long-time readers will know I’m an absolute fangirl of science writer Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Atlantic, who writes about the world with curiosity, humor, admiration, and joy. His new book is laden with facts facts and more facts, […]

How do you feel about your writing—and how does writing make you feel—when it’s going well? For me, it feels like a delicious gathering of power, an accumulation of kinetic energy. A little like this, or this: Conversely, why and when does your writing stutter out? What does it feel like? What have you done […]

You have only twenty minutes of writing time today but spend the first five remembering what you did yesterday. You’re overwhelmed and paralyzed when your hands hit the keyboard. You lose the thread of ideas from day to day, feeling momentum leaching out of the process like air out of a tire.  You poke around […]

I’m considering creating an accountability system or community of my own, but am well aware that I’m launching into an ecosystem; I’d be adding my own special flavor without trying to reinvent the wheel. Writing groups of all stripes abound. Accountability seems to be in the air these days; lots of folks are talking, writing, and […]

I love being the catalyst for your ideas as they develop. When you need someone to get you unstuck, collaborate on re-enlivening your creative practice, or help you make your writing awesome, I’m your gal.  But I’ll be frank: I don’t know much past the basics about working with an agent, or about what needs to […]