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How To Make a Good Book Better

Marsie on bears

How Not To Be a Butt-Hole in Real Life and on the Page

Mr. L on a Sill

MR. MURPHY AND THE KONG

Every Month I Think About This So I Can Keep Going

Mr. Murphy and Pogie

First Kisses, Green Teachers, and Civility

Apologies and Help My Story Has Fallen and It Can't Get Up

Grammar Talk: Modify that Dangler.

Pogie Stares

Someone was sleeping outside her tent right next to her and how to make good writing habits

Mr. Murphy and Pogie Reveal That Dogs Are Actually Hobbits

Pogie and Mr. Murph Go Stoic

Marsie's Monday Motivation Or Living Though You Know You're Dying

Two Cats in an Office Chair

Steps to Defining Yourself & the Red Tie Man of Identity Labeling

How Do You Use Memories to Make Ideas for Stories

Mr. Murphy

How to Start Your Novel

Pogie licks

Overcoming Negativity Bias & Toilet Rats

Marsie in the Window Thinking about Marcus

Who Are You Most Likely To Trust?

Murph and Pogie

MARKETING 101 IS ALSO LIFE 101

Deep Point Of View

When Critiquing Don't Be a Butt Face

Cats in the Window

Why it is okay to read books you’ve already read and sometimes there’s an alligator in your kitchen

Pogie

Mr. Murphy

Koko in a file box

How to Be More Courageous For Other People

Why I still get so scared

Character Lies, Misbeliefs, Wounds

Detail Your Story Like It's a Car You Love

The Spiral of Ick and Quiet Winners: You Don’t Have to Flaunt Yourself to Succeed

Pogie and Shaun

Pogie Worries

Koko Under the Table

Finding the Zone of Awesome (or Genius)

Pogie in Otter Creek

Work Spaces and Self Doubt (Videos! Gasp!)

What? Your Childhood Wasn't Awesome? Welcome to the World of Writers

Pogie is Thoughtful

Marsie, Matriarch of Cats

Shaun went off the rails, but this was supposed to be about how do you sustain a career as an author

The Sliding Door Moments That Make Things Super Hard Sometimes

Slow-Mo Pogie

Let's Be Fancy and Talk About Our Character's Interiority

Actions Create Who You Are

INFO DUMPING IS NOT COOL JUST LIKE WRITING IN CAPS LOCK

Pogie the Pup

The Info Dump from Hell and How to Avoid Them and Also UFOs

Cloud between a computer monitor and a keyboard

Making Life Better Isn't Usually About Self-Help Books

Pogie Monday

Getting Fleshier and Fleshier: Making Characters Feel Real

My Town is Having a Pinto Moment

Pogie & Marsie on the Rug

Let's Talk About Those Telling Paragraphs

Marsie is the soul

Control Your Tells, Don't Give In To the Passive

L on the Table

I write because the world doesn't make sense, how about you?

Pogie + Socks = A Win

Trees in Bar Harbor

Learning Character On the Page

Pogie and the Wrapping Paper

Cloud on the Couch

L the Cat on the Edge

AVOID THE REPETITIVE PLAY BY PLAY

Author Interview: The Award Winning, Dog Loving Super Star Chris Lynch

Koko on the presents

Pogie on a bed on a Monday

Come Write With Me

Laughter is Actually a Really Good Medicine

Cloud is anti portrait mode

Narrative Distance Is Your Friend

Marsie and Koko

LET’S SHOW YOU HOW SHOW VS TELL WORKS! Florida Man Poops on a Possum. We won’t show you that

Finding joy by the grocery store butter

Marsie Cat

Why the Town Budget Can Be Beautiful

Pogie Loves Marsie. That's it. That's the post.

Cloud Chilling on the Coffee Table Thinking About Mary Oliver

Why Is Telling Bad?

GET INTO THE BRAIN IF YOU WANT TO SHOW AND NOT TELL

Pogie thinks about love and cookies

Carrie and the Campaign Penis

Can You Reinvent Yourself?

Pogie and Mary Oliver

Koko & Some Morning Heaney

Writers Going the Full Monty

Happy Love Day

THE PROBLEM WITH ADVERBS & BEARS IN THE DOGGY DOOR: Let’s Show, Not Tell.

Pogie and Cloud Being Cuties

Our First of Three Hugs

The Cats and The Sliding Glass Door

Getting Older Is OK

Cloud and Cat Treat Thoughts

Pogie and Murph Dog

Why Am I So Stupid?

Sick Cars, Good Friends and Human Connections

Show vs Tell: Telling is the Bud Godzilla of Novel Writing Sometimes

Sprawled Out Cloud

Cloud and Epictetus Sleeping

Show Us Your Wounds Writers and Stealing Seven King Cakes

The What-Does-He-See-in-Her Ladies and Put-Her-In-Her-Place Men

Mr. Murph and Koko Talk Love

Houseplants Make Us Happy

Pogie and Mr. Murph

TELLING IS SOMETIMES OKAY AND BETTER THAN SHOWING

Mr. Murphy Thinks About Squirrels

Writers Are Promise Makers, Plus a Screech Owl Chilling With Board Games

Cloud and Marsie

Writing (and Living) Funny

Pogie Noticing Things

Making Happy Memories Often Involves Firsts

More About Tropes

Pogie and Murph on the Bed

L on the Stairs

TROPE ME OUT, BABY: THE JUMP SCARE AND JANUARY IS A BLISSED OUT MONTH

Pogie and the Hole in the Bed

When You Become the Shipwreck

Mr. Murphy on Pogie's Dog Bed

The Storms Will Not Undo Us

L on the Bed, Pogie Behind Him

Pogie Dog on the Bed

Marsie on a Rug

Every day is an adventure

Pogie on the Couch

Pogie & Mr. Murph

Marsie on the Stairs Thinking About Sparty

Koko on the Stairs

Pogie on the Couch