Archive - To Write with Wild Abandon

March 2025

✍️ Are You Selling Out?

or, Why Pride Sometimes Comes Before the Rejection Slip - "Artistic integrity" is a slippery slope to "unpublished". How to take feedback and keep your…

Mar 11

February 2025

January 2025

✍️ In Defence of Pantsing

or, How Putting One Word After Another May Be Power, But... - Pantsing is great, but we still need a story structure. Here's how we can have both.

Jan 28

December 2024

✍️ How Your Choice of Words (and When You Use Them) Can Affect the Reader in Different Ways

or, I’ll Do the Rolling, You Do the Detail - Giving readers clues, including through specific, charged words, gives readers context. Here's what I've…

Dec 31, 2024

✍️ Surviving the Shallows of Your Writer’s Mind

or, Why We Stop Before We Find Cohen’s Truer, Realer Sentence - Sometimes we get discouraged before we find "our truth". The secret to motivation: keep…

Dec 17, 2024

✍️ What’s Your Story?

or, How to Find Your Story’s “Why” - A good way to get unstuck when you're writing - or avoid getting stuck in the first place - is to Find Your Why…

Dec 3, 2024

November 2024

October 2024

✍️ How to Make NaNoWriMo Your Own Personal Writing Retreat

or, A New Way to Juggle Competing Priorities So You Can Write Again - Finding time to write is difficult. Here's how a NaNoWriMo month (or any other…

Oct 22, 2024

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