Tag: writing motivation
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Learn Your Weaknesses
I wrote my first full-length novel my sophomore year of high school. While my family was gracious and kind in their critique of it (because, let’s be honest, it was a very weak story), they couldn’t help but tease me about the number of times my characters bite their lips. I used the “find and…
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Keeping Moving Forward
Part of Newton’s First Law of Motion is that an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside force. And while I feel confident in saying that Newton did not have writing in mind when he wrote his law, I think the principal can still apply. The easiest way to…
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Write Every Day?
I’m not sure if there’s a piece of advice that writers seem to disagree on more than, “Write every day.” Some people live and thrive by it. For others, it kills their creativity and desire to write. It can feel like really divisive advice. But I think we need to step back for a second…
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What If You Fall?
“What if I fall?” Most of the time, we see that statement followed up with, “But what if you fly?” typically written in some sort of italicized, inspirational font. But let’s stop and sit for a while in that first question. What if you fall? What happens then? As I think about my debut novel…
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Three Things I Reminded Myself While Drafting
At the beginning of this year, I kicked off 2025 by finishing the first draft of my new WIP. It took a few months to get through the draft. There were ups and downs and several things I had to remind myself of. I wanted to share them with you in hope that they can…
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Writing Resource: WriteTrack
Writing goals vary from writer to writer, and what one person finds helpful might not help the other. However, I’ve found it helpful in my writing to set daily word counts goals. I do even better when I have a visual for those goals, typically a graph of some sort. In the past, I used…
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Write Today
Dear creative, Writing is hard. So many things make it so easy to *not* write. Sometimes the things making it hard to write are valid—there are simply reasons of life when you can’t write. But sometimes, you just have to do the hard work. Put away the distractions. Silence your phone. Sit in the chair.…
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He Has a Plan
Friend, rest in the sovereignty of God over your writing. I know that it can be so hard to—I’ve wrestled with it before. But trust me, there is so much peace and freedom that comes with remembering that He is in control of everything that happens in your writing journey. He is sovereign over every…
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Keep Writing
Sometimes you have to write the wrong words first. We’ve all heard you can’t edit a blank page. And that’s true. So put the words on the paper. Don’t think about how the characters are flat, the action unrealistic, and the setting bland. Don’t stop because you’ll probably end up cutting most of the words. …
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Fight for Your Story
Sometimes the person you have to fight with hardest for your writing is yourself. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my current WIP, it’s how to fight for my writing with myself. A year ago, I was literally *this* close to shelving this project and possibly giving up on writing altogether. I was burned…
Hailey Huntington 