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2019
September
17 Your First Draft Will Suck. (Here’s how to write anyway.)
5 How to Believe that Your Story Matters
June
17 5 Steps to First Draft: Essays
12 Screaming into the Storm: why you SHOULD add to the noise
12 5 Steps to First Draft…Finally!
3 How Do You Want to Feel? (Reprise)
May
5 Future You: The Writer (questions to ask yourself today)
April
26 Pretend: A Story by Stephanie
24 The Tie That Binds: How to Pinpoint a Story’s Theme
22 How do you WANT to feel? Create Your Own Writer’s Mindset
19 A Family Who Eats Together: A Story by Stephanie
17 Table for Two: One Simple Strategy to Engage Your Reader
15 Writing a Childhood Through an Adult Lens
9 This Story Hurts: how to write when you are still emotionally attached
3 Break It Down to Build It Up
March
27 10 Reasons to Write About Your Life
25 Your mother called to say “Stop it.”
22 Where Home Was: A Story by Stephanie
20 Build Your Story One Brick at a Time
18 4 Steps to Start Writing NOW
15 What If and Should Part 2: The Destination
February
27 What If and Should Part 1: The Journey
8 How to Know It’s the “Right” Story
5 Find Empathy for the Villain
January
28 Misdeeds and Misbehavior: writing when ashamed
23 Comparison
16 How Perfectionism Holds Us Back
14 The Key to Creative Freedom
2018
December
10 5 Reasons to Share Your Story
November
October
September
1 Got Criticism? Why it hurts (and how to soothe the pain)
August
5 The Burden of Unfinished Drafts
July
30 No Discipline? Write Anyway.
23 Will Anyone Care About This Besides Me?
17 Procrastination? Write Anyway.
June
May
April
March
24 Priorities
3 In Which There Is Never Enough Time
February
