writer's block

If you haven’t written anything yet, what you have at your disposal is your mind. If you've written something but don’t know how to revise or improve it, what you have at your disposal is your voice.

When I got stuck, I remembered the advice I have given to dozens of students: if you can't keep moving forward in one scene, if you drop the thread, pick up a different one...

What we need to remember is that encountering a roadblock is part of the journey—and this, of course, applies to writing as much as it does to our physical location.

Writers seem to either love or loathe writing prompts. However you feel about prompts, here are some tips for getting the most out of them.

Shawna Ayoub knows we all get lost sometimes--and she brings three simple steps for pressing reset on your energy button to recover your sense of direction.

You can better know who your character is by knowing who your character was. If your main character is you, you can come to a better understanding of where you are going if you understand where you have been.