April Bosshard 5/31/24 April Bosshard 5/31/24

🦶Every Writer Walks a Unique Path: Success, Envy, and Being Yourself

Most of us have a nasty habit of comparing ourselves to other writers and authors. Let’s stop. We each walk a unique path of creativity and fulfillment.

11/30/21 11/30/21

How it Feels to Finish a Project

You have a ton of tasks to tend to when it comes to crafting your stories, and writing scenes is one of them. What is a scene?

11/28/18 11/28/18

What Do You Owe Your Readers?

In a word: Everything. Reading might be the single most intimate act you will experience with a stranger.

5/30/17 5/30/17

Dickens, Dreams, and Drafts

I was recently in London and spent a few nights in Bloomsbury not far from a house Charles Dickens lived in from 1837 to 1839. It was here where he completed The Pickwick Papers and wrote the complete manuscripts for Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickelby. His subsequent success allowed him to move on to grander homes in London, but this is the only one still standing and it’s now a museum.

character • character development • conflict • courage • creativity • drafting • goals • gratitude • inspiration • motivation • outlining • productivity • readers • resistance • revision • scenes • story • structure • success • talent • time • travel • uncertainty • writing process