Writing Tips
Amy Delcambre
What Being Unprepared to Run a Marathon Taught ...

You should want to sing “the end” from the rooftops, not vomit in the sand between the back of a portaloo and someone’s million-dollar Cape Cod-style McMansion.

What Being Unprepared to Run a Marathon Taught Me about Novel Writing
Editing Tips, True Stories
Amy Delcambre
My $7,791 Business Mistake

· Every contract is worth walking away from. Any job you take is keeping you from another job opportunity.

My $7,791 Business Mistake
Writing Tips
Amy Delcambre
5 Terrible Excuses You’re Not Writing Your ...

Good reasons for not writing are terrible excuses. Stop making excuses and start planning and prioritizing, so you can start writing (for real).

5 Terrible Excuses You’re Not Writing Your Story (And How to End the Cycle)
Writing Tips
Amy Delcambre
How to Show Not Tell in Writing

The why factor tells reader things about your characters. Readers learn who people, and they connect more deeply with the story, such as in “The Gift of the Magi” when writers show instead of tell.

How to Show Not Tell in Writing
Writing Memoir
Amy Delcambre
How to Write about Trauma

When you write about things that have happened to you (such as in memoir), you revisit the emotions that you had when those events transpired.

How to Write about Trauma

What Being Unprepared to Run a Marathon Taught Me about Novel Writing

What Being Unprepared to Run a Marathon Taught Me about Novel Writing

You should want to sing “the end” from the rooftops, not vomit in the sand between the back of a portaloo and someone’s million-dollar Cape Cod-style McMansion.

How to Show Not Tell in Writing

How to Show Not Tell in Writing

The why factor tells reader things about your characters. Readers learn who people, and they connect more deeply with the story, such as in “The Gift of the Magi” when writers show instead of tell.

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Using Mindfulness to Write Your Life

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Using Mindfulness to Write Your Life

Mindfulness makes us more empathetic. Even if we don’t agree, we can see others, particularly our antagonists, more clearly and thus treat them with compassion in our stories and in our lives.

How to Show & Not Tell in Your Memoir (or in Any Writing)

How to Show & Not Tell in Your Memoir (or in Any Writing)

You have to show your story for two reasons

One is that they may not believe you without evidence

Two is that you’re depriving them (and yourself) of developing feelings of empathy for your character because without reading and experiencing what you endured, they can neither feel nor care for you

How to Become a Writer

How to Become a Writer

Here’s what it takes to be a writer:

  1. Passion and dedication; you have to take the bad with the amazing

  2. Balls of steel; you will not love all of your word babies equally and some will embarrass you the same way your actual children do

  3. Dedication; writing has to be a daily practice for you to actually become a writer

Reasons to Write a Memoir

Reasons to Write a Memoir

Knowing the destination before you begin your journey saves time and a lot of effort. If you’ve ever endeavored to write your truth before, you’ll know there are a lot of sticky spots, areas where you’re not sure how best to say something, if you should say something, or if that part of the story belongs. Knowing the reason you’re writing a memoir will help on all of those forefronts.

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How to Keep Writing When the Chips are Down

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How to Keep Writing When the Chips are Down

Writers need to write every day, but working moms know by EOD, it’s hard to kick extra ass. Here’s how I kept my pen moving when the chips were stacked against me.