In today’s episode of Creative Lift, Creating Space: Designing with your Voice in Mind, we’re continuing our series that explores the Illuminary. The Illuminary is a visualization tool that invites you to picture your creative thinking process happening in various rooms. Our goal is to make the...
It’s the first week of NaNoWriMo, and the Creative Lift episodes this month are focused on helping you maintain your drafting enthusiasm and momentum as you aim to draft a novel in a month. In...
It’s NaNoWriMo, and Alex and I are drafting our hearts out this month. Are you, too? If so, this episode is for you. It’s a podcast mini-session focused on overcoming world-building overwhelm, and...
It’s almost time for the NaNoWriMo challenge to begin. That means, across the world, writers are preparing to draft 50,000 words in the month of November. In the past couple of episodes, we’ve...
Are you considering taking on the NaNoWriMo challenge? Whether you plan to draft a novel in November officially, or simply want to think more about the art of drafting and how you can face the blank...
Welcome to season five of Creative Lift: Dive Into the NaNoWriMo Challenge! I’m Naomi Kinsman, and you’re listening to episode 36, How to Choose a Project for NaNoWriMo. In case you’ve never heard...
Where do you start with a full novel revision?We’re finishing up season four of the podcast, Behind the Scenes of a Full-NovelRevision, in which Alex Doherty, a fellow writer, and I have been...
How do you speed up and slow down the pace in your stories? And when do youchoose to speed up or slow down? What purpose does pacing serve in our storytelling? We’re in season four of the podcast,...
Whether you’re a plotter or a pantser, for every writer there’s generally room to amplify acharacter arc in your novel once you’ve completed a full draft. But what does thatprocess look like, beyond...
Even if a story isn’t a mystery, there’s something about a great question that keeps usturning pages. We want to know: What’s the answer? But can a question draw out toolong? How many questions does...
