Purple prose is fancy-pants, over-the-top, flowery writing. Kind of like the sentence you just read. This type of writing defeats the...

Everyone makes resolutions ahead of the coming year. You’ve got your standard weight loss and exercise resolutions that usually fail a...

Congrats! Your manuscript is complete, and you’ve mustered the guts to query agents and publishers. Woohoo! Cue the fireworks and...

Check in for a morale booster, my darlings. No one is positive 100% of the time. That includes writers, aspiring authors, and established...

With a sea of online platforms on the Internet to support, help, and promote authors and writers, it’s a wild and crazy challenge to...

People from all walks of life who are crazy about books can celebrate their love of tomes, have fun, and make new friends by joining a...

The imposter phenomenon was introduced in an article by Pauline R. Clance and Suzanne A. Imes in 1978. If you’d like to read it, the...

It's always enlightening to visit past posts. Sometimes it's difficult to predict which posts will resonate with readers while others are...

Well doesn’t this sound like fun — creating and casting a magic spell to help draft a book and get it published? Wands at the ready my...

This sounds like a no-brainer. Of course, you’re in love with your story. You wrote it for heaven's sake. Your time, energy, hard-earned...

There are oodles of practical writing tips out there in how-to books, the ether, and cyberspace. Generous established authors are only...

AI or artificial intelligence is all the rage right now in various industries and is making its mark in the realm of literature as well....

Starting something new like writing a book can be scary, but so is staying in the same place. Don’t be scared of the big, bad, book...

The aim of constructive feedback is to reach a positive outcome by presenting someone with comments, guidance, information, or...

Rejection is the dismissal or refusal of an idea, proposal, plan, etc. A literary rejection occurs when a writing project is declined for...

Words of wisdom by Xavier Saer ― You are where you’re supposed to be. Otherwise, you’d be somewhere else. We may not have all the answers...

So, we’ve discussed mindfulness, manifestation, inspired action, and vision boards and boxes in other Wordy posts. Today I want to get...

Coffee cups up if you’ve experienced a writing rut from time to time. Before drafting this article, I was in one of those ruts. I’m not...

Drafting a book of any kind requires much consideration. There are so many things to think about and so many variables to contend with....

HOW I LEARNED TO RELAX, ENJOY THE WRITING JOURNEY, AND WRITE LIKE A WARRIOR! I wasn’t always a writing warrior. At one point in my life,...