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Found 8 total tags.

bookcraft

4 items with this tag.

Apr 15, 2025
The Seen covers get a facelift - Part 2/2
- bookcraft
Mar 23, 2025
The Seen covers get a facelift - Part 1/2
- bookcraft
Sep 13, 2023
Your Reader's Invisible Eye
- bookcraft
- craft-character
Feb 12, 2023
Your Cover's Job (And How to Nail It)
- bookcraft

craft-character

6 items with this tag.

Aug 15, 2025
Using Actors to Improve Your Writing
- craft-character
Sep 13, 2023
Your Reader's Invisible Eye
- bookcraft
- craft-character
Aug 29, 2023
What Turns You On?
- craft-character
- reading
Jun 06, 2023
How To Build a Human
- craft-character
May 09, 2023
5 Ways to Sweeten Up Unlikeable Characters
- craft-character
Mar 14, 2023
Emotional Gutting 101: Your Guide to Breaking Reader Hearts
- craft-character
- reading

craft-plot

6 items with this tag.

Feb 14, 2025
The Dangers of Overplotting
- craft-plot
- process
Jul 17, 2024
Overplotting a Novel's Outline
- craft-plot
- process
May 08, 2024
How a Ghost Gave Me a Story Epiphany
- craft-plot
Jan 30, 2024
How to Write a Screenplay
- craft-plot
Aug 15, 2023
Sourcing Intrigue for Stories
- craft-plot
Apr 11, 2023
When Wandering Off-Path Enhances Your Story
- craft-plot

mindset

13 items with this tag. Showing first 10 tags.

Jun 24, 2025
I've ‘wasted’ weeks on an app-building sidequest
- systems
- mindset
Nov 14, 2024
My first draft is so terrible I’m considering giving up writing books
- process
- mindset
May 23, 2024
My Legs Hurt
- mindset
- news
Feb 21, 2024
How to Successfully Fail at Deadlines
- mindset
- process
Jan 02, 2024
Who Needs Goals? Not Us.
- systems
- mindset
Nov 07, 2023
How to Create Your Imaginary Life Coach
- mindset
Oct 25, 2023
An Enforced Break
- mindset
- news
Oct 11, 2023
Instinct, Intuition and Integrity
- mindset
Jul 26, 2023
How to Cut Through the Noise
- mindset
Jun 20, 2023
Keep, Keep, Keep Writing
- process
- mindset

news

9 items with this tag.

Jun 30, 2026
A Fiancé Has Flatlined is out now!
- news
- process
Apr 27, 2026
My new book is coming out!
- news
- process
Oct 21, 2025
Third Draft is Finished!
- process
- news
Dec 16, 2024
I bought a typewriter!
- systems
- news
Sep 16, 2024
Saying Goodbye
- process
- news
May 23, 2024
My Legs Hurt
- mindset
- news
Jan 16, 2024
The Stormhouse Book Awards 2024
- reading
- news
Oct 25, 2023
An Enforced Break
- mindset
- news
Sep 27, 2023
The Seen Team is Back!
- news

process

15 items with this tag. Showing first 10 tags.

Jun 30, 2026
A Fiancé Has Flatlined is out now!
- news
- process
Apr 27, 2026
My new book is coming out!
- news
- process
Oct 21, 2025
Third Draft is Finished!
- process
- news
Feb 14, 2025
The Dangers of Overplotting
- craft-plot
- process
Nov 14, 2024
My first draft is so terrible I’m considering giving up writing books
- process
- mindset
Sep 16, 2024
Saying Goodbye
- process
- news
Aug 16, 2024
Starting a First Draft
- process
Jul 17, 2024
Overplotting a Novel's Outline
- craft-plot
- process
Jun 26, 2024
A Peek Behind the Writer's Curtain
- process
Feb 21, 2024
How to Successfully Fail at Deadlines
- mindset
- process

reading

7 items with this tag.

Dec 25, 2024
My favourite books of 2024
- reading
Jan 16, 2024
The Stormhouse Book Awards 2024
- reading
- news
Dec 19, 2023
The Nerdiest Book Roundup Ever 2023
- reading
Dec 05, 2023
What's Your Fantasy?
- reading
Aug 29, 2023
What Turns You On?
- craft-character
- reading
Mar 14, 2023
Emotional Gutting 101: Your Guide to Breaking Reader Hearts
- craft-character
- reading
Feb 28, 2023
Breaking Up with Boring Books
- reading

systems

7 items with this tag.

Jun 24, 2025
I've ‘wasted’ weeks on an app-building sidequest
- systems
- mindset
May 15, 2025
How I Plan my Novel Writing Process on Notion
- systems
Dec 16, 2024
I bought a typewriter!
- systems
- news
Oct 17, 2024
Crack the Code to Your Creative Genius
- systems
Jan 02, 2024
Who Needs Goals? Not Us.
- systems
- mindset
Aug 01, 2023
Master Your Calendar
- systems
May 23, 2023
Dominate Multiple Projects with Crop Rotation
- systems

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