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How to Crush Writer's Block With Four Little Words
Stuck in the middle of your draft and can't move forward? This one writer's block trick will get you unstuck and back to writing in minutes.
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Catherine Forrest
5 days ago7 min read


Writing With ADHD: 5 Strategies That Actually Work (Medication or Not)
Writing with ADHD is hard — focus, executive function, and procrastination work against you at every turn. Here are five strategies a professional editor with ADHD uses to start writing and keep writing, with or without medication.
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Catherine Forrest
Sep 410 min read


How to Write Every Day Even When You Can’t
Writing is a skill built through study and practice — not inspiration. Here's how to gamify your writing habit, set achievable goals, and keep yourself writing even when you'd rather do anything else.
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Catherine Forrest
Aug 148 min read


Writing Productivity Helpers
Four tools to organize your writing projects and stay productive: Notion for project tracking, Pacemaker for writing schedules, 750 Words for daily habit-building, and Focuswriter for distraction-free writing sessions.
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Catherine Forrest
Aug 128 min read


Be the Best Beta Reader You Can Be
A beta reader who tells you your manuscript is perfect is wasting your time. Here's what good beta feedback actually looks like — and how to ask for it.
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Catherine Forrest
Aug 78 min read


Writing Rules to Break At Will
Know the rules. Break them with intention. The only one you can't break: don't use a word if you don't know what it means.
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Catherine Forrest
Aug 79 min read


Free Evernote Templates for Writers
Three Evernote templates for writers who want to organize their projects, track submissions, and research markets—plus how to set up a writing life that actually stays organized.
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Catherine Forrest
Jul 308 min read


How to Start a Writing Group
Everything you need to start a writing group that actually sticks — format, frequency, finding members, and the digital tools that keep it running. From a writer who's been doing it since 2016.
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Catherine Forrest
Jul 308 min read


I Built the Writing Tracker I Couldn't Find
ScribeTrack is a mobile app built by a writer, for writers, to track writing progress and calculate real writing data for authors.
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Catherine Forrest
Jul 305 min read


The Executive Function Assistant I Built Because I Couldn't Focus Long Enough to Finish Anything
Tailor: A focus companion and executive dysfunction assistant built from the ground up for adults who need help focusing:
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Catherine Forrest
Jun 153 min read


Revision Planner for Writers
If you had a single tool that could organize your entire revision process—from plot hole to final polish—would that make your book better?
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Catherine Forrest
Jun 125 min read


Let’s cook up some irresistible character voices
Voice is not what a character says. Voice is how a character cannot help saying it.
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Catherine Forrest
May 306 min read


The Editor’s Pass Is Here
The Editor’s Pass is a complete family of workbooks that guide writers through the revision or self-editing process. It’s the macro-to-micro methodology that professional editors use every day, written for writers.
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Catherine Forrest
May 256 min read


Lock in to point-of-view (and eliminate head-hopping for good)
You can write a whole novel in first person and still violate POV if your narrator knows something they couldn’t possibly know. You can write in omniscient third and still fail if you head-hop without purpose. That’s why I made The POV Lock.
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Catherine Forrest
May 205 min read


Why a printable on Etsy instead of a book on Amazon?
The flexibility is the value signal. Not the binding. You wondered: Aren’t you selling something less valuable by selling it as a PDF? No. I’m selling something more usable. More reusable. More flexible.
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Catherine Forrest
May 184 min read


When your beta readers are doing their best (but you need better feedback)
If you’ve been frustrated by the beta reading process, if you’ve gotten vague feedback—or no feedback at all—and wanted a solution, I made this for you.
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Catherine Forrest
May 134 min read


Action isn’t narrative tension
Action doesn't equal tension. Learn why "raise the stakes" is useless advice—and get a concrete system to map, diagnose, and fix your manuscript's pacing problems.
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Catherine Forrest
May 65 min read
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