A guide you don’t have to follow: How to get yourself to write

Disclaimer: I'm being very hypocritical here, considering I haven't really written anything major in the last year, but who cares, I've stilled motivated myself multiple times to get back to writing so maybe you can take something away from this post. Hi there, welcome back to my "A Guide You Don't Have To Follow series"....

A guide you don’t have to follow: Aesthetics and Vision Boards

 A couple of weeks ago I showed you my mood boards/aesthetics for The Interview and said I would write a more in depth post about how I create them for my "A guide you don't have to follow" series.  Well, this is that post.  Disclaimer: As with all of the installments of this series, I'm...

I tried the #24hourreadathon (so you don’t have to?)

So. I've had heard of people doing the 24 hour readathon before and I was always in awe as well as curious whether I could do it as well. For months, probably years I made excuses not to do it because, work and uni and social stuff, you know. Well. There were really not a...

A guide you don’t have to follow: How to start writing

The other day a friend of mine and I talked about writing and poetry and at some point she asked me how I started writing. In the moment I gave the generic "Oh I had to write a short story in primary school and then couldn't stop writing stories since then." But the question still...

A guide you don’t have to follow: On Writing trackers

A while ago I wrote a post on how I outline and that this might work for me and not for you. Well, I decided to make this into an entire series called: A guide you don't have to follow. In this series I will give you advise on writing, editing and general author stuff,...

a guide you don’t have to follow: How To Outline

Hi there and welcome back. After tackling the whole issue about whether or not to outline, I thought it would be fun to show you my way of outlining. Which is really not that special or might not be helpful to you, but sometimes I find it very interesting to see how other people work...

To Outline or Not To Outline?

Pantser, Planner, Plantser? We\'ve probably all heard of these different types of writers or outline strategies, but what do they mean? What do these labels have to do with your style of writing, your success as a writer and are they set in stone? First, a little trip to the (Urban) dictionary: The terms Planner...

A guide you don’t have to follow: How to deal with (constructive) criticism

Okay, let's get real for a moment. We all want everyone to love our story. Subjectively I mean. In our very core we all want people to just adore what we write and love our stories, poems or novels and that is very natural. We love what we write (at least when we overcome our...