Tag: Resources

• Let’s Write PTSD

  

  Updated in 2022 I touched a slight bit on PTSD in the Let’s Write Fear post, but I figure this is a complex emotional state and needs more detail. This is a post about how traumatic events might influence characters, which means traumatic events will be mentioned. Not in detail, but they’re there. Please don’t […]

  Yolandie Horak

  August 18, 2020

  Writing

  Anxiety, Character Development, Emotions, Let’s Write, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Resources, Stuff for Writers, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writers’ Resources, Writing, Writing Advice, Writing Emotions, Writing Life, Writing PTSD

• Five Easy Ways to Combat Writer’s Block

  

  Ah, writer’s block. The bane of many a writer’s existence. It’s that feeling of shock and having no direction when the inspiration suddenly runs out. It happens to all of us at one point or another, so we all know it’s real. Personally, I just don’t believe in it. Yes, having no inspiration is a […]

  Yolandie Horak

  February 18, 2020

  Writing

  How To, Indie Authors, Indie Writers, Resources, Stuff for Writers, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writers’ Block, Writers’ Resources, Writing, Writing Advice, Writing Community, Writing Journey, Writing Process

• Let’s Write – Common Mistakes

  

  Welcome back to another post in our self-editing miniseries. It’s been a hot minute since we last talked about this, so if you want to catch up on the first three posts, here are the links. The Basics of Self-Editing The Structural Edit (pt 1) The Structural Edit (pt 2) Today, we’re going to have […]

  Yolandie Horak

  January 21, 2020

  Writing

  Better Writing, Cliches, Common Writing Mistakes, Dictionary Writing, Intensifiers, Let’s Write, Modifiers, Pet Phrases, Resources, Self-Editing, Simple Verbs, Stuff for Writers, Weak Sentence Construction, Weasel Words, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writers’ Resources, Writing Community, Writing Life

• Let’s Talk Photos and Graphics

  

  A friend asked me about the software and resources I use to edit photos for the blog and Instagram and create the header images for blog posts. Since I have so many friends and family members getting into blogging, I figured this could be a helpful post. The best news is you don’t have to […]

  Yolandie Horak

  March 14, 2019

  Personal

  Blogger, Canva, Design, Editing, Editing Software, Graphic Design, How To, Instagram, Photo Editing, Resources, Stuff for Bloggers

• Strong Female Characters

  

  There’s this thing all around the internet. Advice paired with a general outcry–write strong female characters. I’ve had multiple conversations about this in the last few weeks, and I thought we could continue chatting about it here. People want Strong Female Characters (from here on SFC) to the point where they come down really hard […]

  Yolandie Horak

  February 6, 2019

  Writing

  Character Development, Characters, Resources, Strong Characters, Strong Female Characters, Stuff for Writers, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writers’ Resources, Writing

• Let’s Write Confidence

  

  It’s so good to be back in the swing of things with a writing post, especially one that adds to the Let’s Write Series. Now, I see you doing a double take there. Didn’t this used to be called the writing emotions series? It did, but then I had so many ideas to add to […]

  Yolandie Horak

  January 15, 2019

  Writing

  Better Writing, Confidence, Let’s Write, Resources, Stuff for Writers, Writer, Writers’ Resources, Writing, Writing Confidence

• Travel in Writing

  

  Quick fact – the average horse and the average person travel about the same distance per day. As in, giving your hero a horse may not actually bring them to the epic battle faster than they’d have gotten there on foot. No, I didn’t make that up. Hollywood, gaming houses, and other media tell us […]

  Yolandie Horak

  August 8, 2018

  Writing

  Horses, Let’s Write, Realistic Travel Distances, Resources, Stuff for Writers, Travel, Travel by Horse, Walking, Walking Distances, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writers’ Resources, Writing

• Let’s Write Joy

  

  If you’re here for the first time, I’ve been writing a series of posts on the body language of various emotions, so authors have a quick reference when they get stuck writing diverse characters. It’s so easy to fall into the same old repetitive action tags. I can’t tell you how many times I used […]

  Yolandie Horak

  August 1, 2018

  Writing

  Better Writing, Emotions, Joy, Let’s Write, Resources, Stuff for Writers, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writers’ Resources, Writing, Writing Emotions, Writing Joy

• Let’s Write Fear

  

  From a fright when the spider lands on your arm, to being scared of the weird guy on the blind date, to full-blown terror when a dragon sticks its head out of the cave and you left your sword at home, fear is one of the most complex emotions that we’ve all had to deal […]

  Yolandie Horak

  July 4, 2018

  Writing

  Anxiety, Better Writing, Emotions, Fear, Let’s Write, Resources, Stuff for Writers, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writers’ Resources, Writing, Writing Emotions, Writing Fear

• The Writer’s Supply Network

  

  Hang around writer’s forums long enough and you’ll soon see that there are many fake service providers out there. People who claim they’ll help you polish your manuscript before the world sees it, then disappear with your cash. And since so many people are self-publishing these days, the demand for indie service providers is on […]

  Yolandie Horak

  March 2, 2018

  Writing

  Author, Beta Readers, Beta Reading, Blurb, Cover Dersign, Cover Designers, Editors, Formatting, Graphic Design, Indie Writers, Resources, Service Providers, Services for Writers, Stuff for Writers, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writer’s Supply Network, Writers’ Resources, Writing, Writing Services