Guest Post

Faced with pursuing publication that might reopen old wounds, one memoirist overcame the challenge with help from therapy, community, and AI.

When a writer began to see her mother with compassion, her writing changed—and her stories started getting published.

An author decides to pay a bookstagrammer for exposure for her book, and comes to regret it so much that she asks the promotion to be deleted.

By teaching one’s own work, a writer discovers not only what they do well, but how others might use such insights to unlock their own drafts.

Readers who give three stars are often responding to the intersection between their expectations and the book—not the book’s inherent worth.

Three practices separate successful memoirists from those who underestimate the writing craft.

By learning to embrace the nonlinear nature of the ADHD brain, you can learn to write with more ease and less frustration.

Lack of support might come from fears about their own privacy, not understanding the enormity of your achievement, and/or information overload.

Working on a book with a refreshed, rejuvenated mind, even if only for a short time, is far more conducive than slogging through exhaustion.

You love teaching, and your students love you. How can you position yourself to deepen their experience with a powerful live or online event?

Applying genre labels to creative work can be vexing, but understanding each genre’s core concerns can also be inspiring and instructional.

When a scene shifts to a new setting, time, or POV without clearly bridging that gap, we risk losing readers’ trust and goodwill.

When the Huffington Post published a personal essay by Lea Page, a stranger in the comments section wished her dead for writing about empathy. Lea reflects on the price we can pay for publishing and making ourselves vulnerable—and how to reclaim our power.

One author appeared on 50+ podcasts before her book launched. Here’s what she learned about timing, pitching, and making it work for you.

There’s no one-size-fits-all way to structure a story, so understanding the core principles will help you decide what’s right for yours.

One author reflects on how her desire to not just outsource marketing, but to outsource even thinking about it, led to regrettable results.

Making the leap from short online articles to longer, narrative work brought one writer into contact with a new challenge: being truly edited.

By observing our own species through the eyes of another, something new just might be revealed to us.

The first question is often some version of “What happened to me?” Understanding it helps craft a story that speaks to your readers’ needs.

If you’re overwhelmed by the volume of accumulated words after months or years of generating new material, here’s how to tame and shape them.

One book coach wondered whether an AI tool, trained on his own archive of advice, could answer authors’ questions as well as he could.

Stories are like trains: a connected chain of main events (railcars) and transitions (couplings), with very little stopping at platforms.

Writing outside our lived experience isn’t just about getting facts right—it’s also about learning who we are when we truly listen to others.

One writer explains why you shouldn’t necessarily get feedback on your first draft—and what you should do instead.

Your story’s tone and content don’t have to match—and when they don’t, they can combine to create something greater than their sum.