How much of our lives do we regard as items on our to-do list? We often speak of obligations, responsibilities, duty—all the things we have to take care of before we can allow ourselves to work on what we want to. But the truth is, as the cliché goes, the only things we have to do are die and pay taxes (and judging by the loophole-riddled tax returns of high-profile billionaires and government officials, the latter is apparently optional too). Most things in our lives are things we choose ...| FoxPrint Editorial
If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. Last week my husband sent me this terrifying article—a Microsoft study about the 40 jobs likely to be most imminently impacted by AI and the 40 that might be safest. I’m going to let you guess where writ| FoxPrint Editorial
As creatives we are constantly facing choices—many of them in our art blessedly malleable, at least until we’ve published our stories (and even after that, if we indie publish). If you don’t like one path you’ve sent your character down, you can hit delete and let them travel a n| FoxPrint Editorial
There’s a time-honored, romantic image of authors: the solitary genius who lives within the rich worlds in their heads, pecking away at their keyboard in their little attic hideaway or stolen corner of their home, or sitting alone at a busy coffeeshop insulated from the bustle around them with heads bent over their laptops, lost in their own imagination. In almost all cases the recurring motif is solitude, the artist making their art in isolation, the pure act of creation that springs from ...| FoxPrint Editorial
Recently I worked with an author on a first-chapters critique of the opening 50 pages of her manuscript. After our consultation she indicated she'd like to talk about doing a full developmental edit on the manuscript down the road, after she'd incorporated revisions based on our discussion. But first she wanted to know if I thought it was worth it for her to keep working on the story. Questions like this always bring me up short. My first reaction is always a lance of empathy, because I under...| FoxPrint Editorial
Advice to authors to create a newsletter is ubiquitous, and the reasons are generally solid. It's a direct line of communication to people who are very interested in your work. It's a platform that's totally within your own control and ownership, and the mailing list is your own,| FoxPrint Editorial
Irecently heard a few alarming stories about AI-generated books flooding Amazon. Some of these AI authors are publishing dozens of books in days, c...| Sarah Selecky Writing School
If you’re reading this, I’m assuming you’re curious about how to quit social media. Maybe you took a little break, and you’re reluctant to start u...| Sarah Selecky Writing School
Authors are often the purveyors of hope. We are the ones who explore human nature and draw people together through story to find common ground. We are the ones who may offer a vision for a better world, the one we want to see and live in, the one we literally can create in the pages of our stories, the happy ending we long for. We are the ones who may record the forgotten people of history who helped bring us out of dark places, and the ones we invent who do the same for themselves, for their...| FoxPrint Editorial
Last month, I was a speaker at Chris Guillebeau’s Neurodivergent2025 conference in Austin. My workshop was called “Sensory Alchemy” — I was talkin...| Sarah Selecky Writing School
You open the fridge and brush your hand against a fuzzy blue-green ball tucked behind the yogurt. Ugh, was that once a lemon? Your phone buzzes—you...| Sarah Selecky Writing School
Do you have a strong foundation for your writing career? If not, it will be harder for you to succeed at building a readership.| Writing and Wellness
I am beginning to believe is that a culture of "peak content" is directly at odds with my desires for my career, my wellbeing, and my life.| Ruby Warrington