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Sparty Dog

Eight types of drunkards and law-breaking Santa clauses a scene in the UK

Cat on a Counter

Writing Love On Your Arms Every Day

Cause and Effect Is A Powerful Tool

Pogie & Sparty

Best Buddies Forever

Pogie Left Out

Chagall Advice: Do Not Be Afraid

To e.g. or to i.e., that is the question.

Sparty on Meds

Weird junk finds and key take-aways from spending time with spiritual leaders

Pogie And Her Toys

Write!

Whatever and the People Pleasing Grocery Store Blues

Sparty and Cloud Snuggle

My Dad Was Magic

Cloud on the Decorations

Character Over Plot

Powering Through

Weather vs Whether

Sparty and Pogie

Humping with half-eaten burritos or dealing with sexual hangups part two

The Unexpected

Your Writing Matters

TAKING STOCK

Pogie and Sparty

Cancer Happens

Pogie the Puppy

Does Your Story Make Sense?

Cloud stretch

Pogie & Sparty on the bed

Cause and Effect in Novel Writing

Being Uptight About Sex And How To Get Over It, Part One

Sparty Dog

Are You Flourishing?

Writing Round Up

Koko and the Trees

Nobody Ever Took Me Seriously

Cloud Peeking Out of a Box

Those malicious mo-fos aren’t evil, they are just stupid

Pogie and Sparty Snuggles

Writing Round Up, Cool Exercise, and Submission Opportunity

Is It Time For a Personal Annual Review

Sparty Smiles

Do I really need a mosaic lamp? No, I do not

Sparty Dog

Being Self Deprecating For the Win?

Marsie

Listening to Butt Faces and Writing Dialogue

Pogie the Puppy

Kitty Pee in the Pantry, The Chicken Man and Scale of Positive Experiences

Sparty Smiles

Writing Round Up, Cool Exercise, and Submission Opportunity

Is It Okay To Be Mediocre?

Koko

How Not Talking Rocks Your World

All About Episodic Fiction Part 2

Writing Isn't About Being Clever; It's About Story

Dogs Snuggling

Eat a Frog For Breakfast And Being More Efficient

Sparty on the Deck

Writing Round Up, Cool Exercise, and Submission Opportunity

It's Okay To Make A Fuss When Water Rushes Into Your Basement

L on the Stairs

Living Happy

Pogie at the Dirty Door

Episodic Fiction

Cloud Perching

The Power of Personal Narrative

Naughty Ghosts and Is Hard Work and Consistency Really The Key To Financial Success

Sparty

Pogie the Lady Bug

Writing Round Up, Cool Exercise, and Submission Opportunity

You Can't Always Blame the Puppy

Marsie and the Ghost

My Post That Failed

Sparty and a Suitcase

How To Be Specific About Yearning To Make Your Reader Care About The Character

Pogie the Puppy

Making a Scene Memorable

Marsie in Darkness

Meth In Your Underwear And Is Farting Your True Purpose

Cloud on the beam

Writing Round Up, Cool Exercise, and Submission Opportunity

Now I Know Where My Klutzy Daughter Got It From

Sparty Paw

When People Aren't Who You Expect Them To Be

Pogie's Head on Sparty's Paw

Is there a time a writer should say, "Eh, good enough?"

Koko on the Stairs

Super Important Writing Tip For When You Think Your Story Is a Little Boring

Pogie the Puppy in Blankets

Cloud on a Book

Who Do You Want To Be?

Sparty on Shore Path

Writing Round Up, Cool Exercise, and Submission Opportunity

Who Actually Am I

Pogie and L in the window

Writer Mid-Week Crisis

L in the Window

I Don't Know How To Fangirl Even About Writers and Some Advice

The Dog You Love Tells A Lot About What Kind of Person You Are

Koko

Pogie Lick

Writing Round Up, Cool Exercise, and Submission Opportunity

We Are All In Drag

Sometimes Presidential Hopefuls Walk Away and Sometimes They Don't.

Pogie and Sparty

FINDING THE TIME TO WRITE

Cloud at the Window

Not So Wild and Crazy Writing Advice

Marsie Leans

Woman Wipes Her Dog’s Bum Bum ALL THE TIME and No Talent No Problem

Pogie the Puppy on a Chair

We Have To Chose To See

Writing Round Up, Cool Exercise, and Submission Opportunity

Sparty Dog Outside

How did we get here? Where are we going?

Pogie the Puppy

Koko, Marsie and Coffee

FLAWS ARE IMPORTANT!

How and To Make Your Characters Flawed As F And Why You Should

Sparty on the Deck

Pogie and Trees

Beers All Over the Highway and How To Get to that Flow State

Finding Flow

Writing Round Up, Cool Exercise, and Submission Opportunity

Cloud in the window

Yesterday I Was an Idiot

Pogie & Sparty

Backstory Bits

Marsie and Em's Purse

Oh Baby, Look at that Backstory and Goals

Spartacus and Paws

Warped Brains For The Win

Pogie on the table

Writing Round Up, Cool Exercise, and Submission Opportunity

Finding Happiness Even As Death Approaches

Creativity

Confucius, Habits, and Rituals

Pogie the puppy

L, the Kitten

The Three Uses of Backstory and Some Good Rules

Writing Exceptional Characters Part One Backstory

Animal Thoughts Via Spartacus

Is Fear Keeping Us Dumb and Dip Your Balls in Coffee

Cloud's floof

The Doctor Of Happiness Existed

Writing Round Up, Cool Exercise, and Submission Opportunity

Standing on the table

When Your Family Is Indifferent, You Need Some Super Fans

Two cats and a puppy

Oh, the disaster!

L and Koko

Putting Scene and Sequel Together

Pogie

Baby Wipes, Drug Farts and How Foreplay All Day Helps Your Relationship

Cloud the Cat

The Line Cutter

Writing Round Up, Cool Exercise and Submission Opportunity

I lost it this week, but I found it again and that's because of oxytocin and brain science

Mid-Level Plotting. Yeah, it's cool. I swear

Marsie and L

Spartacus

The sexy part of story structure: Scene and Sequel

Alligator Hunting and Why Shaun Is Gone, Plus New DUDE NO Podcast Preview

Marsie Cat

Writing Round Up, Cool Exercise and Submission Opportunity

Transitions! Transitions! Explosions! Transitions!

Sparty

Parenting Is Sometimes a Drama-Filled Jerk

Cloud

Sparty and Dirt

What's the MRU? Part Two

Pogie and the Frog

It is Super Natural: Four Basic Elements To Your Story

L in the Windowsill

Finding Happiness Despite Death

Write Better Now

Pogie's Monday Thought

Happiness Is Sexy Apparently

Cloud

Writing With Broken Brains

Pogie the Puppy

Desire vs danger, it's what your story is about

Koko

Sparty and Cloud

Do NOT hide in a stuffed bear when running from the cops and where the hell is the empathy, you jerks

Three Big Lessons About Relationships and Happiness

Write Better Now

The Not Good Enoughs

EMPATHY MAKES YOU HAPPIER AND MAYBE EVEN SMARTER

Pogie and Sparty

Making Characters Sizzle

Sparty & Pogie

Cloud

Brad Pitt in a Skirt and Mixing Things Up in Your Relationships To Make Them Last

Sparty and Pogie

Dispute This!

Writing Round Up

Pogie's Good Morning

How Feeling Into Others Makes You Happy

Pogie and Sparty

The Three Main Ways Your Character Changes

Pogie Gets Tangled

Character Development and Novel Structures are Creepy Besties. Here’s why.

L in the window

Are you a cheerleading mutant?

Pogie the Puppy

Write Better Now!

Sparty Dog

Fighting Your Lizard Brain

How Having a Gratitude Attitude Actually Works

Cloud's Thought for the Day

Pogie

WTF EVEN IS A SCENE

Talking Heads Are Bad (not the band) So How Do You Imagine Yourself In a Scene.

Sparty

Sometimes a robot breaks your finger-live happy anyway

L Checks Out A Bowl

Let's Face It. Neither Of Us Are Lookers

A Cool Exercise About Character Development and Awesome Links

Pogie & Sparty

Do You Want To Be Happy?

Pogie and L

A Bit More On Those Tenses

Cloud

PROS AND CONS OF PRESENT AND PAST TENSE

Pogie the Puppy

Nap Like an Ancient Warrior

Pogie & Sparty

What Don't You Want Anymore?

Write Better Now

Koko

Pride and Family and Death

Write Better Now

ALL ABOUT VOICE IN YOUR WRITING

Marsie Cat

Pogie the Puppy Says Hello

Astonishers. Gaspers. Screamers. What your exclamation point addiction or avoidance says about you.

Cloud the Awesome

Multitasking Is Stupid and Naked Florida Men

Pogie the Puppy

WRITE BETTER NOW

What Kind of World Do You Want?

Sparty Dog's Monday

Sparty & Pogie

Koko the cat

Exercise To Help You Dive Deep

Using the Tools of Actors to Be a Better Writer

When They Call You Ditzy

Pogie

Pogie and Sparty

Cause and Effect

Write Your Way Up; Grudges Can Keep Us Sane

Sparty and Pogie Sitting in a Tree

The Demon Named White Room Syndrome and How to Exorcise It From Your Story

Pogie Dog

Huck the Roof Dog and Defining Happiness Doggy Style

Pogie

Sparty and Pogie on a Monday

Shaun Called Someone a F-Stick on Facebook

When a black cat crosses your path . . .

Pogie's Thought for the Day

Fill Your Setting With Farts

Cloud

Topless Mom Saving Her Pet Goose and Smile Like You're Happy, Damn It

Sparty & Pogie

Pogie

The Ladder of Abstraction

Finding purpose in wheelchairs

Cloud

Pogie

Show More Details, Writers

The cats

Pogie

Pogie and Sparty

Feeling Alone

Pogie

Pogie and Wood

What Screws Up a Scene

THREE BIG PIECES TO BUILDING BETTER STORY VIA SCENE AND SEQUEL

Sparty & Pogie

No More Elvis and the Cost of Alienation

Cloud

Pogie the Puppy

Fear Setting

Fear

Cloud Leans In

Sparty Dog Wears a Wig - Sort of

Pick Me Ups

A Quick Point of View Overview

Take a Nap Like Alexander the Great and Fight Burnout

Update on the Kiddo

Sparty

The Second Step of Revision

The First Step of Revision

Dealing With Writer Burnout

Pogie

Mixing Up Your Sentence Lengths Like the Sultry Writer You Are

Writers Get Addicted to Things Not Just Drugs and Booze and Coffee, but Sometimes SENTENCE FRAGMENTS!

Cloud

Sparty's Good Morning

Flirts, Take Charge of Your Biological Clock.

Pogie Puppy Says Be Brave

Cloud's Morning Thought

You Can Be Lucky and Desperate All at Once

Pogie's Friday Thought

Cloud's Thought for the Day

A Couple Tips On How to Write More Engagingly

Pogie Love

Pogie's Thought for the Day

Sparty & Pogie

Heading to the School for Behavioral Disorders

Pot Food at the Wedding and Positive Motivation Theory

Pogie

Subordinate Clauses are Sexy

Pogie's Thought for the Day

Cloud's Thought for the Day

Sparty's Thought for the Day

Fear and Writing Characters

Pogie's Monday Hello

Where Is the Empathy?

Pogie's Puppy Thought

Marsie's Thought

The Big Scary Fear Monster Is Really the Rock Star of Your Novel

Koko the Cat

Pogie's Thought

Sparty's Thought for the Day

Camper Wisdom and Dialogue Hints

OMG. OK. Let's Try

Sparty & Pogie

Pogie's thought for the day

Don’t Be Chunky – Put Your Dialogue in Paragraphs

Cloud's Thought For The Day

Condoms in Easter Eggs Saying Yes and A Little Sex Talk

Pogie & Sparty

Pogie & Cloud's Thought for the Day

How To Deal With Snobs

The Woman Who Didn't Care Who I Was

Sparty's Thoughts for the Day

Thought from Cloud

Quick Grammar Tip - Someday vs Some day

Pogie's Thought for the Day

Pogie & Sparty

How to Be Funnier: Three Tips

Finding Humor When Your Life is a Mess

Surviving Is Not Thriving: Be Brave Friday

Pogie the Puppy's Thought for the Day

Pogie's Daily Thought

Don't Chunk: The Key to Overcoming Bad Exposition

Cloud's Thought

Sparty's thought for the day

Sparty and Pogie's Thought for the Day

They did not sleep on a chair at Disney

Sparty and Marilyn's Thought for the Day

Sparty and Cloud Have Thoughts

How to Conquer The Beast Called Exposition

Examples of Exposition Ruining a Story

Sparty's Morning Thought

Unplug Yourself and Bark Back and Find Your Agency

Cloud's Hello

Sparty's Morning Thought

No More Hiding Who We Are - Be Brave Friday

LIVING HAPPY