GYWO: Why Every Writer Needs a Style Guide

Your style is where you assert your right to do things the way you want to do them.

#100: Knowing When to Throw In the Towel

You have written 100,000 words of a lesson for yourself, which is that you cannot start by taking harmful stereotypes as givens and then write a harmless book.

#81: Your Writing Is Enough

Can you see ways to redefine "enough" and put it within your reach? Can you see ways to feel like enough right now?

#79: Ethical Worldbuilding from Real Places

There is no absolution; there are no clear-cut rules that you can strictly follow and thereby relieve your anxiety. There is only you, doing your best.

#59: Accepting Your Writing Style

Celebrate your glorious ideas rather than treating yourself as a failure because plots are trickier for you.

#49: When Settings Are Fun and Stories Are Hard

You are totally permitted to just do the fun parts of this and skip the parts you dislike. Hobbies are for enjoying.

#35: Making Side Characters Feel Real

You're operating by improv theater rules, where as soon as a character introduces a new idea, you say "yes, and" to it. But this theater troupe answers to your direction.