Limiting Belief: I Should...

April 16, 2019

Guest User

Limiting Beliefs, Writing Advice, Writing Tips, Goals

You know you’ve heard this phrase a million times: “You should…” It’s part of the vernacular of our culture, but it can be a limiting belief when it comes to writing…

August 1, 2018

Kate Leibfried

Book Coaching, Writing Advice, First Draft

Writing 50,000 words in a month may not work for you.

August 1, 2018

Kate Leibfried

Book Coaching, Writing Advice, First Draft

Writing 50,000 words in a month may not work for you.

For the third time in two and a half years, I’ve written 50,000 words in a single month. Here’s what I learned and why I’m not planning on doing it again…

October 11, 2017

Kate Leibfried

Book Coaching

[Printable!] Building a Sturdy Outline

October 11, 2017

Kate Leibfried

Book Coaching

It takes a strategy to build an outline that is strong enough to support your story. We'll go into detail on how to do that in a later post, but for now, here are the basics:

September 13, 2017

Kate Leibfried

Book Coaching

What song do you sing? (Developing Your Writing Voice)

September 13, 2017

Kate Leibfried

Book Coaching

What song do you sing? (Developing Your Writing Voice)

Your writing voice is the unique language that makes your writing yours. It’s what sets your zombie story or memoir or romance novel apart from all the others. It’s the humor/wit/sarcasm/intellect that defines you as a writer. If you’ve ever read something by Toni Morrison or Gabriel Garcia Marquez, you know how alluring a writer’s voice can be. If you’ve ever read David Sedaris or Tina Fey, you understand how a writer’s voice can be laugh-out-loud funny.