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Writing Advice for the Anxious


You're Secretly Procrastinating and You Don't Even Know It
For some reason when I sit down to write for myself, I can’t do it. I’d rather clean the bathroom or reorder my bookshelf an eleventh time..

Hope Siegel
Sep 2, 20204 min read


Why I Write Genre Fiction
There’s this unspoken fear that someone is going to look at my work and say “you’re not a real author.” And that’s ridiculous right?...

Hope Siegel
Aug 29, 20203 min read


A Great Rule of Thumb for Writing Description During Action Scenes
One of my favorite things about writing is description. My philosophy about description is that what a character describes, and how they...

Hope Siegel
Aug 26, 20203 min read


Why Writers Should Be Critiquers
I’ve been part of a few critiquing sites over my writing career. I started in 7th grade on the Young Writers Society (YWS), a site which...

Hope Siegel
Aug 22, 20204 min read


What Does it Mean to "Write What You Know?"
If there’s one piece of writing advice that gets misunderstood it’s “Write what you know.”

Hope Siegel
Aug 19, 20202 min read


Should You Stop Writing Tropes?
A trope is just anything that is repeated so often across stories that people have started to take notice. They’re often seen as unoriginal

Hope Siegel
Aug 15, 20203 min read


Stop Agonizing over Your First Chapter
Stop me if this sounds familiar. You have the whole story planned out and you’re to write but you can't get past the first chapter.

Hope Siegel
Aug 11, 20205 min read
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