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This week I created a goal to take my writing career and craft to the next level. Since publishing my first novel a year ago and joining multiple creative writing communites, I have learned a lot about my writing skills -strengths, weaknesses, and mehs. Using my notes from the past year, I compiled a list
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Consistency is not my strong suit. In fact, posting a video nearly every week for almost a year on this channel comes as a major surprise to me (and possibly others). I just enjoy talking into the void of a camera lens that much, I guess. But for the life of me, I just can’t
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Transcript: For the fourth video of our Unpacking Common Writing Advice series, we will be getting a little grammatical today, so bear with me. Most of what we will be breaking down is about the placement of words in a sentence, and while they may sound boring to some (not to me because I’m built
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A few years ago, I sat down to write a story with only a short scene in mind. In three months, I had a roughly 130,000 page manuscript written. Was it in desperate need of rewrites and revisions? Yes, of course. But the beautiful part was it was completely written. I had the chunk of
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Transcript: I have a confession to make: I’m a cold-blooded killer… of words. Oh my god, did you think I meant people?? What’s wrong with you? No, no, no—I kill words. Precious words. Words I spent so long crafting and bringing to life. But once I realize they serve no purpose, they have to go.
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Transcript: The number of times writing teachers, critique partners, or coaches tell a writer to “show, don’t tell” without any explanation is way too high. It’s a problem because it gets treated like a magical cure-all for your writing. If you just show and never tell, all your writing problems will disappear, right? While it’s
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I’m currently in the process of earning my certification as a fiction book coach through Author Accelerator, and I need your help to complete my practicum! To earn my certificate, I need to work directly with a client on a completed manuscript draft of at least 75,000 words. Here’s how it works: This entire process
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Even though we learn to talk well before we learn to write, writing dialogue can prove to be quite a challenge for many writers. If you’ve spent most of your life writing academically or professionally and are just now diving into creative writing and storytelling, dialogue can often feel impossible to master. But don’t worry,
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In the first video of my series, “Unpacking Common Writing Advice,” I dive into the phrase “Write What You Know.” This often-repeated advice is frequently misunderstood—either taken too literally or leaving writers, especially those in speculative fiction, scratching their heads. What does it actually mean, and how can you apply it to your writing without…
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The worst thing a writer can do is neglect their characters. It doesn’t matter how exciting your plot is, how interesting your world building and lore are, or how much steamy romance you include if you don’t create realistic and relatable characters. Many writers often mistake the plot or action of the story as the
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C. Sloan Lewis | Your Virtual Writing Coach 