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November 2023
October 2023
September 2023
August 2023
July 2023
June 2023
May 2023
- 23: Writing Young Adult Fiction
- 20: Tarot’s Judgment: Your Writing Coach
- 19: Tarot for Writers: 9 of Coins
- 18: Unlock Writer’s Block
- 17: Two of Coins, Your Book Coach
- 16: King of Cups, Your Writing Coach
- 15: Tarot Writing Coach: Four of Coins
- 14: Tarot and Writing: Meet the Two of Cups, Your Writing Coach
- 12: Writing a Novel Fast(er): 10 Tips!
April 2023
March 2023
- 20: Writing Coaches: An Interview
- 19: Three Benefits of a Creative Writing Coach
- 18: Makes a GREAT Writing Coach?
- 17: How to Choose a Creative Writing Coach
- 16: Plotting Your Novel: 5 Fabulous Tips!
- 15: How to Choose the Right Writing Coach
February 2023
- 20: Benefits of Working with a Writing Coach
- 10: The Five Biggest Benefits of Working with a Book Coach
August 2022
July 2022
April 2022
- 19: Teacher’s Pet: A Tarot Writing Prompt
- 16: Writing Prompt: Thankful
- 15: Writing Sprints and SFDs
- 12: RIP Beverly Cleary: I Think Ramona Grew Up To Be a Writer
- 09: Writer’s Block: How One Writer Beats It!
- 02: Literary Quotes for Writers: A Writing Coach Takes a Journey Through 10 Literary Quotes
March 2022
February 2022
October 2020
- 26: Sometimes, We’re Mute, We Writers (with Writing Resources for Writers who Dream)
- 05: Writing Prompts: Words + Pictures = Magic!
September 2020
- 28: Jamie Morris Writing Coach Welcomes New Writers!
- 21: Cats and Writers: Purr-spective (Sorry!) of a Writing Coach
- 14: 10 Editing Tips to Make You Look Like the Smart Writer You Are!
- 07: Permission? Denied: A Frustrating Writing Prompt!
August 2020
- 17: Tough Writing Project? Get It Done!
- 10: Writing/Not Writing: With 2 Non-Ironic Writing Prompts
- 03: Giving the Wrong Character the Benefit of a Doubt: A Novel Writing Tip
July 2020
- 27: 5 Fun Ways to Use Lists to Enhance Your Writing: A Writing Prompt
- 20: YOU Are a Collector’s Item: A Really Excellent Writing Prompt!
- 06: Writer’s Block? A Sure Cure!
June 2020
- 29: GenXWoman Is Now Hiring Bloggers!
- 22: Cut-and-Paste: A Writing Coach Confesses
- 15: Writing Contests for Summer
- 08: Black Writers: Let’s Offer Our Support
- 01: Aspiring Cozy Mystery Writer Shares Her Journey
May 2020
- 25: A Good Writing Prompt Can …
- 18: Social Media: 5 Tips for Sharing Your Writing
- 11: Young Adult Fiction Writers Connect!
- 04: Is It Too Late? Writing in Our Middle and Later Years: Perspective of a Writing Coach
April 2020
- 27: Writing Prompts at Home: For Writers in Quarantine
- 20: 10 Writing Coaching Tips for Teens
- 13: Plotting a Novel: 3 Tips (with Tarot!)
- 06: Ethical Will: What Really Matters?
March 2020
- 30: How to Keep Going: A Writing Coach’s Lowered Expectations (now, with Writing Prompts!)
- 23: A Writing Coach Weighs In on Writing to Connect with Oneself During a Time of Isolation
- 19: An Honor and an Opportunity: The Writer’s Craft Super Stack!
- 16: Memoir: Is Writing Your Story Worthwhile?
- 09: A Freelance Editor’s 5 Tips to Getting the Most from Your FREE Sample Edit!
- 02: A Writer’s First Year: How a Writing Coach Helped a Shadow Writer Step into the Light
February 2020
- 24: Top Writing Coach Tip #1: Get the Writing Conference Delivered to YOU!
- 17: A Not-Too-Sweet Love-Letter Writing Prompt
- 10: Cut and Paste: A Crafty Writing Prompt
- 03: If the Queen of Wands Were Your Writing Coach: Some Tarot-Headed Writing Advice
January 2020
- 27: Be Your Own Valentine: February Writing Challenge!
- 20: Novels That Have Impacted Our Lives
- 13: Quick-Start/Fast-Finish Writing Prompt! For Writers with Little Time
- 06: Dublin Murders: Is the Book Always Better than the Movie?
December 2019
- 30: Snapshot Memoir: Short Form, Big Impact
- 23: Give YOURSELF These 12 Gifts for the New Year, Writer!
- 16: Improv + Writing = High-Wire Fun (A Tarot-ish Writing Prompt)
- 09: Bet You Can Do Better Than IKEA! (A Very Useful Writing Prompt)
- 02: Why Do We Write? A New Year’s Exploration!
November 2019
- 25: Here, Kitty, Kitty: A Tarot Writing Prompt
- 18: Writing a Memoir? Read Memoirs!
- 11: Living Collaborative Exploration: How I Work with Writers
- 04: Holidays + Family + Tarot = Good Times? (Prompt)!
October 2019
- 28: A Long Way Down (Tarot Writing Prompt)
- 21: Meet-Cute: A Rom-Com Writing Prompt
- 14: Hearts on Fire! A Tarot Writing Prompt
- 07: 3 Emergency Writing Prompts
September 2019
- 30: Walk Like a Writer
- 23: The Waiting Game: A Tarot Writing Prompt
- 16: Lucky Number 7: Seven Flash Fiction Contests for Fall!
- 09: Making Stone Soup from Words and Breadcrumbs: A Writing Prompt
- 02: Self-Inspiration: An Archeological Dig Into Your Own Writing
August 2019
- 26: Dueling Pens: Writing Together
- 19: 7-Minute Autobiography: A Memoir Writing Prompt
- 12: Besting the Beast: A Tarot Writing Prompt
- 05: Writing Comes from Writing (Thanks, Bruce!)
July 2019
- 29: A Short (Enough) Story with a Literary Moral (and Horses)
- 22: 10 Great Tips for Capturing Literary Agent Interest!
- 15: Look Again! A (Tarot-Inspired) Writing Prompt
- 08: What Feeds Your Fire?
- 01: Walk a Mile in Your Antagonist’s Shoes: A Writing Prompt
June 2019
- 24: I’ve Got No Talent!
- 17: It’s About Time
- 10: A Tarot Writing Prompt Without the Prompt (Sorry!)
- 03: Summer Writing Contests and Other Calls for Submission (aka: In the Court of Editorial Opinion)
May 2019
- 27: The Crystal Ball: A Tarot Writing Prompt
- 20: Tarot Writing Prompt: Beast of Burden
- 13: Memoir Writing: Telling the Truth
- 06: Backstory: Writing from the Rear View Mirror
April 2019
- 29: Tarot Writing Prompt: Character Chess
- 22: Writing Prompt: Move Your Chair
- 15: Plotting Your Novel!
- 08: Tarot Writing Prompt: Ace(s) Up Your Sleeve
- 01: Non-Writing Prompt: Spring Sabbath
March 2019
- 25: Tarot Writing Prompt: The Knight of … Writer’s Block?
- 18: Tarot Writing Prompt: Desperately Seeking …
- 11: Tarot Writing Prompt: If the Moon Were Your Writing Coach
- 04: Tarot Writing Prompt: A “Hero” and a “Villain” Walk into a Novel
February 2019
- 25: Tarot Writing Prompt: Writing Scenes from “Both Sides Now” (Thanks, Joni!)
- 18: A Novel That’s a Tarot Writing Prompt: Story Archetypes
- 11: Naming Characters: A Novel Writing Game for Memoirists
- 04: Invisible Ink: Writing Practice, Journaling, and Morning Pages
January 2019
- 30: Tarot Writing Prompt: The Active Hero Rides Again
- 28: Tarot Writing Prompt: The Nine of Friends
- 23: Tarot Prompts You to Submit Your Writing: Contests and Calls for Submission
- 21: Tarot Writing Prompt: One Plus One Equals Story!
- 16: Tarot and Writing and Dragons: Deep Work
- 14: Writing a Novel? Tarot’s Two Cents
- 12: Tarot Writing Prompt: If the Wheel of Fortune Were Your Writing Coach
- 11: Writing Short
- 10: Tarot Writing Prompt: How Writing Coaching is like the Knight of Cups
- 06: A Book Can Be Your Writing Coach!
December 2018
May 2018
December 2017
September 2017
June 2017
May 2017
April 2017
- 26: Tarot Deck Review: The (New) Illuminated Tarot
- 16: Tarot Writing Prompt: What the Heart Wants
- 16: Congratulations Station
March 2017
December 2016
November 2016
October 2016
September 2016
- 24: Tarot Writing Prompt: Wishcrafting
- 20: Congratulations Station
- 11: Tarot Writing Prompt: Leap!
- 11: Congratulations Station
February 2016
- 20: Tarot Writing Prompt: Decisions, Decisions
- 20: Storytellers of Tomorrow
- 06: Writing Prompt: Collectible
- 06: Writing Prompt: The Peter Principle
November 2015
- 29: Readers Unite
- 29: Congratulations Station!
- 29: Writing Prompt: A Rose by Any Other Name
- 14: Sometimes Art . . .
- 13: Survival: Omegaland Tarot Review
- 06: 5 Paths to Amazon Success!
- 06: The Guilty Pleasure
- 05: Writing Prompt: Singing the Blues
October 2015
- 05: Writing Prompt: I Spy
- 04: Children’s Book Authors Needed
- 04: NaNo for Kids!
- 04: Stylin’
September 2015
August 2015
- 05: I am Calico Jones
- 05: Lies!
- 05: A Mere 425 Miles
July 2015
June 2015
May 2015
- 04: Free! Q+A with Teen Author Kyle Prue
- 03: Writing Prompt: Got Journal? Tarot’s Kelly-Anne Maddox
- 03: Writing Prompt: Cool Tools
April 2015
- 28: Tarot Writing Prompt: Charming the Muse
- 26: Writing Prompt: The Sharp Edge of Your Tongue
- 20: Rattled Literary Magazine
- 20: Patti Smith: Rock Poet God Queen
- 17: Writing Prompt: Tarot Poetry
- 13: UCF BookFest: Go!
- 13: Writing Prompt: Poemcrazy
- 13: Writing Prompt: Queen of the Courtyard
- 06: The Sunshine State of Poetry
- 06: Gary Carries the Prairie: A Poet Gets Published
- 05: Writing Prompt: It Didn’t Always Belong to Me
March 2015
- 29: The Millions: An “Indispensable Literary Site”
- 29: Writing Prompt: Walk, Write
- 29: The Buried Giant: Kazuo Ishiguro
- 23: Writing Prompt: Cooking up a Storm
- 23: Crack that Writing Whip!
- 22: (It’s Not too Late to) Develop a 21st Century Mind
- 15: Sewing Holes: A Celebration
- 15: Writing Prompt: 100 Writing Prompts!
- 09: A Work (of Art) Party: Celebrating a Young Adult (YA) Author’s Success!
- 08: A Peek Behind the Curtain: Literary Agents at Work
- 08: Writing Prompt: 99 Bottles of Beer?
- 02: Freddie Loves Dana!
- 02: Whistling for Literary Submissions
- 02: Writing Prompt: Word’s Worth
February 2015
- 23: A Writing Chair for Your Butt
- 22: Writing Prompt: Those Darned Greek Gods
- 14: Darlyn Finch Kuhn: Author of Sewing Holes, a Memoir
- 12: Sexy Sentences: Writing Advice
- 09: Writing Prompt: Color My World
- 06: Day at the (Tampa) Bay: Mini Writing Conference
- 04: Free! Writing Coaching Round Table: Big Fun for Writers!
- 02: Writing Prompt: Create Quirky Sentences
January 2015
- 30: Two Indie Bookstores Offer Writing Groups
- 26: Creative Writing and Tarot Cards!
- 26: A Writing Coach’s Favorite Writing Prompt: 10-Minute Sentence
- 24: Mark Winton, CJL and Plot-Clocker!
- 24: Top Writing Coach Tip #40: Sleep, Dream, Wake, Write
- 21: Talking About Plot for Writers: Are We Wired for Story?
- 20: Writing Prompt: It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
- 19: Uncle Bardie Does Hamlet
- 18: Top Writing Coach Tip #72: Crossfit
- 18: Top Writing Coach Tip #18: Rest, Reset, Recommit
- 16: Mon Petit Chien
- 10: The Hourglass Project
- 10: Center for Women Writers Contest
- 03: Left Field: Elizabeth’s Sims’ Latest in the Lillian Byrd Series!
December 2014
- 27: New York, New York: Love Your Bookstores!
- 16: 2015 Short Story Contest
- 09: Getting Your Book “Reviewed”
November 2014
- 28: The Gerbil of Doom!
- 21: Courageous Mourning: How a Writing Coach Helped a Counselor Find Her Tribe
- 15: Urban Mythical: The Emma Press Calls for Poetry Submissions
October 2014
- 31: Peggy Poet’s New Poems: Sciences of Silence
- 25: Catch & Release: Columbia’s 2015 Writing Competition
- 17: A Writer’s Race Against Time!
- 13: Top Writing Coach Tip #16: Holidaze vs. Words on the Page
September 2014
- 30: The Geneva Project: Young Adult Novel Reveals Truth and Secrets
- 27: Foretold: Melissa Abrehamsen Gets a Literary Agent!
- 20: Top Writing Coach Tip #34: Walk to Unblock!
- 14: Middle River Press: Custom Publishing Pals
- 06: Free Webinar: Two Top Writing Coaches Talk Shop