Happy New Year! If you’re finding this post around the time it was published, you’ve just crossed into 2023, a fresh year. As Anne Shirley might say, “It’s a fresh year with no mistakes in it!” On...

I often encourage people to play their way to the page, which may sound whimsical, but I mean these words in all seriousness. Words matter, and when we say, “I have to write today,” or “Once I write...

What if you could show up at your creative desk with no ideas at all, or with a million ideas, and either way, feel sure you had a process to move you reliably into flow? What would it mean to be...

We’re continuing Season Six of Creative Lift, Ring in a New Year of Creativity! When I started stepping into each new year as a new story, a new hero’s journey, I discovered something exciting: No...

It’s time for Season Six of Creative Lift! We’re approaching the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, and our theme for this season is Ring in a New Year of Creativity! I wonder: if you were to...

We’re at the very end of NaNoWriMo, and it’s time to wrap up the season and our drafting process. Today’s mini-episode of Creative Lift focuses on how to bring your plot to a close. LISTEN IN:...

We’re nearing the end of NaNoWriMo, but we’re not quite there yet. And this moment can be the one that makes or breaks your momentum. So, today, in our mini-episode, we’ll discuss one of the hardest...

If you’re drafting a novel this month, you’ve likely hit a moment at some point where you weren’t sure how to make your story’s logic work. Whether you skipped that scene or are facing it in the...

If you’ve taken the NaNoWriMo challenge, you’re deep into the drafting process at this point, and chances are, you’ve hit at least a little bit of friction. Today’s mini-episode is designed to help...