If you're a storyteller, helping you is my full-time job. As a book shaman, I collaborate with novelists and short fiction writers to develop and finish the best stories they can tell. My brand is: Better stories make better people.®
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Can Practice Actually Make You a Better Writer?
Expert writing mentor, developmental editor, book coach, and founding member of Scene Stormers, Ben Stadig runs through the approach we use that can help any writer improve their scene craft.
You wouldn't expect to sit down at a piano an...
Don't Write Chapters
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All kinds of unrelated things come up when I’m working with clients on their scenes: cliffhangers, foreshadowing, world building, “the reader just needs to know this” and so forth. Right now, I’m just goin...
What Are You Reading? August 2026 Edition
Woof. After a summer of more continuous hours, days, weeks, and months together than we’ve ever had in our thirty-four years together, it’s kind of a shock for Mrs. Wonderful to be back at work all day again. But, I’m making do with reading...
What if you don’t need talent?
⚠️ Spoiler Alert: Getting feedback in a vacuum is insufficient to improve. ⚠️
Kallista starts by busting the myth of writing being talent alone. I’ve pontificated about practice, skills, and feedback before, but she breaks down the process...
What Are Your Creative Rites and Rituals?
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While I’m wearing a heart monitor doesn’t seem like the time to do exciting shit, so I’m doing things I enjoy today: meeting with my favorite client, sitting by the pool writing the next scene in the coff...
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