Joanna Penn of The Creative Penn — The Writing Coach 056
Welcome to The Writing Coach. On this podcast, I speak with the instructors, editors, coaches, and mentors who help writers and authors create their art, build their audience, and sell their
Joan Dempsey Discusses Her Debut Novel — The Writing Coach 055
Welcome to The Writing Coach. On this podcast, I speak with the instructors, editors, coaches, and mentors who help writers and authors create their art, build their audience, and sell their
Active Voice: The Easiest Way to Improve Your Writing
Using “active voice” is one of the easiest ways to improve the quality of your writing.
Sentences written in active voice organize words so that the subject of the sentence is
The Secret to Getting Fit, Writing a Novel, and Achieving All Your Life’s Goals … FAST!
Recently, a client of mine grew frustrated. Her novel writing wasn’t moving along as swiftly as she would have liked.
She’s a mom with a full-time job who just moved into a new home.
Your Book is Not Your Legacy
When the aspiring authors I work with are faced with a bout of writer's block, I find it’s often the result of an intense stress they’re experiencing related to writing.
Where does this stress
FAQs for Aspiring Authors
Writing a novel requires authors to make thousands of decisions on a daily basis.
Every time a writer sits down to draft, they have to make choices about what’s going to
4 Proven Methods for Tracking Your Writing Progress
How’s your work-in-progress coming along?
Is your current approach to writing getting you the best results possible?
Are you writing quicker these days, or are you slowing down?
When will the book be
If You Have a Day Job, You’re Not a Real Writer
I’d like to think you weren’t fooled for a moment by this article’s utterly ridiculous headline.
Unfortunately, through my work as a writing coach, I’ve learned many aspiring authors actually believe
3 Brilliant Methods for Writing Extraordinary Scenes
It’s vitally important that authors know how to craft great scenes because scenes are the basic building block of narrative fiction.
As I discussed in my article, The Difference between Scenes,
Yes, you DO have to suffer for your art
A friend of mine recently passed away. Losing her was extremely painful. So I wrote about it.
Because I'm a writer and that's the process: life kicks you in the gut and