What if you could go to a place where everything and everyone around you had the potential to inspire your writing? What if we told you that you’re already there? This week, we’re headed to Ideation Land – a writer’s Candyland!

This week’s episode challenges the idea that inspiration strikes like lightning. We say, get out there and make your own lightning. And have fun while you’re at it!

With the right mindset and lens, the things in your everyday life become the raw materials necessary for writing. We invite you to bring freedom and play back into the picture to transform what’s around you into fiction.

For all the lessons + tips from this episode in one spot, check out and download this PDF (https://drive.google.com/file/d/14vwifoddMbq0jj_F5r_TVPg78fFVFeuA/view?usp=sharing). No subscription or signup is necessary.

Do you need support with your writing? Check out our coaching and editing services at https://veronicajorden.com/ and https://annaschechter.org/.

This week, we’re looking at common mistakes or habits surrounding the portrayal of events in a story.

Whether a manuscript has multiple actions smushed into one sentence or entire scenes worth of unnecessary set up and transition, we’ve got some solutions.

P.S. Just because it happened, doesn’t mean you have to tell readers about it.

For all the lessons + tips from this episode in one spot, check out and download this PDF (https://drive.google.com/file/d/13duj5elX1l5IjxHpfk5jLgCEhFzpHsAN/view?usp=drive_link). No subscription or signup is necessary.

Do you need support with your writing? Check out our coaching and editing services at https://veronicajorden.com/ and https://annaschechter.org/.

Do you want to know what Anna's reading? Check out her instagram @annaotations (https://www.instagram.com/annaotations/).

If we could only show you one thing, we’d love for it to be this: the importance of reducing filter words in your writing.

In this episode, we break down what a filter word is and discuss why it’s worthwhile to cut them + how you can.

Filter words add unnecessary distance between your POV character and your reader, effectively turning intense, emotional, and profound moments into reported, secondhand summaries. Unless you want to keep your reader at bay, these sneaky words have got to go. There are, of course, exceptions that we explore here too!

For the lessons from this episode + a list of filter words in one spot, check out and download this PDF: (https://drive.google.com/file/d/165sWgtLmAvEGdCaa_xWxx-ZmZk1fWWgl/view?usp=sharing). No subscription or signup is necessary.

Do you need support with your writing? Check out our coaching and editing services at https://veronicajorden.com/ and https://annaschechter.org/.

Do you want to know what Anna's reading? Check out her instagram @annaotations (https://www.instagram.com/annaotations/).