I'm writing this post at 1:26am because I stayed up till 12:20am writing and I have spent the last hour loading vlog footage, screaming via text with a write...

It has finally come to this...the last battle...the final, desperate moment before the sun rises and shatters the darkness... I figured out the climax! This ...

Writing Prompt #2 - write a short story revolving around one fall family tradition. Mari slammed the door and starting tearing at her thick gloves. "I cannot...

Writing Prompt for Week 1: You come home from school to find a box on your porch. What’s inside? Her hands were shaking as she walked along the familiar sidew...

Goodbye, Summer...Hello, Fall! Okay, I'll give Summer this - 2018 is the first year in forever that I've actually been hesitant to see Summer leave. (And wit...

AuthorTube fans - here is a chance to get an insider look at the writer journey of self-published author Natalia Leigh! At some point, every writer feels tha...

So which is it? Do you rewrite or do you edit? Or do you revise? Does it matter? Oh, it does matter? Okay. Are they interchangeable? Are they completely sepa...

You asked. I answered. At long last (and after a LOT of technical difficulties), I am FINALLY adding the option to purchase SIGNED COPIES of my debut novella...

I've seen people do these posts before - and yet I am still finding out things as I progress in my writer journey that I somehow missed before. And I've been...

Want to know where I've been for four weeks? I'VE BEEN WRITING! And as much as I've missed posting weekly, it was oh so worth it. In this last month, I've go...

Your dream is to have a home office just for writing. After all, you want to make a living off of it. And what could make it feel more professional than to w...

Looking for some good music to go with that epic scene you're writing? Look no farther! Here is this week's playlist for five favorite scene moods. Now stop ...

I tend to hesitate before clicking "play" on any Netflix originals. In my experience, they tend to be a slush pile of "meh"s and "heck no"s with a few "okay"...

You've got a hero. And she's REALLY a hero! But something's wrong and you're not sure what. A lot of new writers struggle with one simple problem: their main...

I've been writing stories since I was six years old. (Seriously. I have the very first book I ever wrote - AND illustrated - sitting on my book shelf.) But I...

Last week I FINALLY sat down with my laptop. My three-year-old was in her quiet time with her favorite kid's show on the tablet. My three-month-old was sleep...

When I first heard Pacific Rim: Uprising was coming out, I hemmed and hawed over getting excited. Let's face it. Hollywood is NOT well known for making kille...

...Then I started doing the exercises in Donald Maass's amazing book Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook (a book YOU MUST get if you are writing fiction). Su...

Today, I pulled out my writing journal and began listing all the books I wanted to write someday. Let me tell you - it was a LONG list! There was a list for ...