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Posts about Writing Processes
The Writing Your Story category of Jami's blog is filled with tips and advice about writing processes and improving how we write.
Sample topics:
* fast drafting
* brainstorming techniques
* getting in touch with our muse
* writing difficult scenes
* writing resources and tools
* making writing a priority, etc.
Below, check out the category's featured posts, as well as some of its latest posts.
For more posts on this topic, click the button at the bottom of this section to explore the whole category, and find more posts like why there isn't one "right" way to write, how our personality affects our writing process, and the pros and cons of experimenting with our writing process.
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Breaking the “Rules”: Will It Be Easy or Hard?
Much of writing is subjective, so it can be hard to know how to treat writing advice. Is it a hard-and-fast rule, a guideline, or a personal preference?
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What Styles of Drafting Work for You?
A drafting process that works for one might not work for another. However, NaNoWriMo can be a great time to experiment and see what writing process works for us.
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Discovering Our Writing Processes
When it comes to writing processes, we’ve probably all seen attitudes implying there’s only one right way. However, just because something works for one person doesn’t mean it will work for everyone, and in the end, there’s only one thing that matters.
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Writer’s Block? Use a Random Generator
Have writer’s block? Or need some brainstorming help? Here’s a huge collection of random generators for both plot and character issues.
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5 Tips for Getting Unstuck in Our Story
If you struggle with writing or moving on when you’re stuck in a story, maybe one of these five tips will help.
Posts for Pantsers
The Plotter vs. Pantser tag of Jami's blog is filled with insights and advice for those who write by the seat of their pants.
Sample topics:
* writing a series without a plan
* how much to let characters lead the way
* debating how a scene should play out, etc.
Below, check out the tag's featured posts, as well as some of its latest posts.
For more posts on this topic, click the button at the bottom of this section to explore the whole tag, and find more posts like figuring out where we are on the plotter-pantser spectrum and thinking in concepts for what we want a scene to accomplish.
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Worldbuilding a Series: Writing without a Plan
Some writers plan their worldbuilding details in advance. Others…not so much. How can we worldbuild when we write a series by the seat of our pants?
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How Do Pantsers Develop Characters?
Plotters might find any kind of pantsing hard to understand, but even pantsers can struggle with pantsing our characters’ development, as that process comes with a different set of problems from developing our plots.
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In Defense of Pantsing
Too much writing advice assumes that pantsers can’t succeed. But trust me, we can, and the pantsing method is not the cause of any problems.
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A Pantser’s Guide to Beat Sheets
Can those who write by the seat of their pants use beat sheets…without driving their muse crazy? If so, how? Here are few tips for how pantsers can draft and revise with beat sheets.
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Can Story Themes Help Pantsers Write?
Need to keep a pantsed story on track? Know what your story’s themes are and use them as a framework for what you want to accomplish.
Posts about Writing Life
The Writing Life category of Jami's blog is filled with tips, advice, insights, and encouragement for the ups and downs of writing.
Sample topics:
* recovering from writing burnout
* protecting your wrists
* handling disappointments
* celebrating accomplishments
* faking it, etc.
Below, check out the category's featured posts, as well as some of its latest posts.
For more posts on this topic, click the button at the bottom of this section to explore the whole category, and find more posts like learning what motivates us or how to improve our productivity, as well as posts about the writing journey or developing our strengths.
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What’s Your Personal Story?
Many are struggling with anxiety, but stories have power in a crisis. Beyond the stories we write, there’s also the story we tell ourselves about our life.
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The Importance of Balance in Our Lives
Finding a good work-life-writing balance is a never-ending struggle. Despite the difficulty, we need to pursue balance or suffer in multiple ways.
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Writer Burnout: How Do You Deal?
As writers, we can burn out in so many different aspects of our lives that it’d be a surprise if we never burned out. And if we don’t deal with our burnout, the problems are likely to get worse, so we might need to make changes.
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Do You Belong? Or Are You a Fraud?
How would you complete this sentence? “I’ll know that I’m good enough when…” Dr. Valerie Young, an expert on “impostor syndrome,” shares her insights.
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Self-Care for Writers
A writer’s life can quickly shift from leisure time to impossible deadlines, which can interfere with our healthy habits. To maintain our health, we should occasionally analyze our self-care habits and routines—especially when we have time between the chaos.
Posts from Jami's Guests
The Guest Posts tag of Jami's blog collects all the amazing posts from Jami's guests, as well as her own posts introducing her articles on other sites, including her Resident Writing Coach series at Writers Helping Writers and her Indie Author Series at Fiction University.
Below, check out the tag's featured guest series, guest authors and some of their most helpful posts, and other featured guest posts, as well as some of the tag's latest posts.
For more posts in this topic, click the button at the bottom of this section to explore the whole tag, which also includes Jami's guest posts elsewhere.
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Other Favorites in Writing Process & Miscellaneous Topics
Jami's blog has many posts about figuring out the writing processes that work for us, as well as other interesting topics, so she couldn't limit herself to just the Featured Posts in the above sections. Here are a few more favorite posts on the topics of understanding ourselves, our brains (how we think, organize, and get motivated), and our writing processes (along with a few posts from guests) that she couldn't resist highlighting.
- What Should Newbie Writers Focus On?
- How Do You Get in Touch with Your Muse?
- Should We Follow the Advice to Write Every Day?
- What Advice Do You Ignore?
- Building a Story: Chapters vs. Scenes
- What Should We Do If We’re Sick of Our Story?
- Brain Science: How Do You Imagine?
- The “Secret” to Success Can’t Be Bought
- Writing Goals: Are They Set Up for Us to Win?
- Organization…for Our Creativity and Our Career
- Stop and Smell the Sense of Accomplishment
- Writing Projects: Are We Ever Really Done?
- How Can We Improve Our Writing? — Guest: Wendy Sparrow
- Productivity Secrets: Bullet Journals and Planning — Guest: L. Penelope
- What Kind of Marketing Plan Will Work for Us? — Guest: Siera London
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