Sitemap - 2025 - #AmWriting
The Ultimate How To: Write, Pitch, Maybe Publish with Kate McKean from Agents+Books
Five things podcast guests need to know
WTB: Is It Harder to Trust Your Gut Now?
The Gift of Failure: Author Version
WTB: Playing Big, Writing Scared, and Wrestling with the Work
WTB: Why Dollars and Deadlines Matter
Should there be a body? Writing is Revising with Meg Mitchell Moore
May Booklab First Pages: The Dictograph Case, Hands Free and Loons
#HowTo: Navigating #AmWriting on Substack
Sticking it to the Book Banners: A Glorious Tale of Victory
WTB: We hope you didn't think this was going to be a short series
How to Focus on Work in a Chaotic World
WTB: When the draft hits a wall...
Imagining the Life of Jo Van Gogh
WTB: The text no one wants from their beta reader
April Booklab First Pages: Unlocked, Triple Crown and Mystery Shaman Meat
Novel Writing for Journalists with the NYT's Elizabeth Harris
April AMA with KJ: Anything, plus conferences, lit fests and more fun
The Business of Being a Writer
WTB: Are You a Sticker or a Sprinter?
Booklab: First Pages (a bite of sci-fi/fantasy action-adventure and Conditioned, a memoir)
A.I. Training and Piracy: What You Need to Know
Creativity, Compromise, and Commercial Viability
It's an #AmWriting podcast Jess AMA day!
How (and Why) to Submit to Literary Mags and Small Presses
The Winter Blueprint Challenge Review Drawing WINNER Announcement
How to Enter the Winter Blueprint Challenge Review Drawing
A Peek Inside a Hybrid Publisher
Blueprint for a Book Step 10: How to Go From Planning a Book to Writing One
Winter Blueprint Challenge Week 10 AMA
Who doesn't love a good checklist?
Winter Blueprint Challenge Week 9 AMA
BPW25 Blueprint for a Book Step 9: But Does this Book Work?
How to Have a Thick Skin, with Lauren Blakely
There's a reason for the rules even if I don't like them
Winter Blueprint Challenge Week 8 AMA
BPW25 Blueprint for a Book Step 8: One Outline to Rule Them All (Even if You Hate Outlining)
Writing Partnerships with Rebecca Winthrop and Jenny Anderson
Because of That, I was forced to see where my plot needed to shift
Winter Blueprint Challenge Week 7 AMA
BPW25 Blueprint for a Book Step 7: How to Drive that Narrative Forward
Wrangling the Doubt Monster with Amy Bernstein
Where to Start and Why: Once again, it only sounds easy
Winter Blueprint Challenge Week 6 AMA
BPW25 Blueprint for a Book Step 6: What's the Structure of Your Narrative?
Consider the Sweep of Your Whole Writing Career
Deceptively Simple-Sounding (again): The Arc of Change
Winter Blueprint Challenge Week 5 AMA
WBP25 Blueprint for a Book Step 5: There Must Be Change
Social Media: What Happens Now?
KJ's Somewhat Useful Flap Copy Cheats and Hacks
Winter Blueprint Challenge Week 4 AMA
BPW25 Blueprint for a Book Step 4: Your Jacket Copy is Your Promise to the Reader
Title, Genre, Ideal Reader.... so easy! Hahahaha or not
Treat your writing like a business in 2025
Winter Blueprint Challenge Week 3 AMA
BPW25 Blueprint for a Book Step 3: Who Will Read My Book? Know Your Market
Where's a good cliche when you need one?
Winter Blueprint Challenge Week 2 AMA: What is Your Point?
If Lorne Michaels Could Decipher His Point, So Can You
BPW25 Blueprint for a Book Step 2: What's Your Point?
A People Pleaser Learns to Write the Book She Wants to Write
Blueprint for a Book: Week 1 AMA!
Blueprinters, Introduce yourself in the chat!
#AmWriting podcast bonus episode with Jess
Winter Blueprint for a Book Challenge Step 1: Find Your Why
Welcome to the Winter 2025 Blueprint Challenge!
ACTION NEEDED: Winter Blueprint for a Book begins next week!
Using the Blueprint for Revision