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Step Into Your Story and Play Your Way Through
Writerly Play allows you to personalize, map, and problem-solve your creative process. The invitation is to step into the story of your creative development and to play your way through. Creativity...
Use Story as Your Compass Through the Creative Process
You already know how a well-told story feels. That same pattern, the pattern of story, can be your real-world compass. You are the hero. Your creative development is the plot. Curious to see how...
How to Make Your Kidlit Career Success Inevitable
What does kidlit career success look like to you? The first question I ask students when we start a new book publishing project at Society of Young Inklings is: What will make you feel like a...
The Difference Between Creativity and Ideas
Have you said (or thought) something like this recently? “I have plenty of ideas. I don’t need more creativity.” “Creativity isn’t the issue for me. What I need is progress.” “Creativity is actually...
Develop Creative Thinking Skills with the Writerly Play Kit
Psst! If you haven't yet subscribed to the Writerly Play Kit, you're missing out! Issued monthly, the WP Kit is a collection of activities, book recommendations, and other inspiration to help you...
Grit, Empathy, and Vision: What I’m Learning about Creative Writing
I woke up in the middle of the night before our most recent Inklings Book launch with these three words bouncing around my mind - grit, empathy, and vision. Sometimes the answer to a question I've...
The 2018 Writerly Play Gift Guide for Writers
Gifts get a bad rap sometimes. We lament the hurry-scurry feel of the holiday season, and in order to settle our hearts and minds, decide gifts are off-limits. Perhaps because gifts are my love...
Why I’m Not Allowed to Say “I Don’t Know” Anymore
For a while now, my husband and I have responded, "You do know," whenever one of us sighs with confusion and says, "I don't know." It's a pact we made after catching ourselves using this excuse far...
