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• AskAbbie LIVE: Writing & Creativity Q&A (Plus Live Chat Questions!)
• Write With Me Livestream ✨✍🏼 Novel November 2026 (Session 1)
• What you actually need to know before you start writing...
• Write With Me Livestream ✨✍🏼 Cozy Preptober Session
• Your next great idea isn't the problem. Finishing the one you already started is the challenge. ✍️📖
• can I ask you a favor? 🥹
• NEW VIDEO: How Much Planning Do You REALLY Need Before Writing a Novel?
• How Much Planning Do You REALLY Need Before Writing a Novel?
• Feeling stuck on your story?
• How to Turn Your Rough Idea into a Book *PANTSER-FRIENDLY*
• How to Outline a Novel (Even If You’re a Pantser)
• Your vibe is your brand. Lean into it.
• You don’t need thousands of subscribers to start building something valuable...
• Focus on creating something worth paying attention to...
• NEW PODCAST: How to Start Building Your Author Platform TODAY (Even If You Don't Have a Book Publish
• How to Start Building Your Author Platform TODAY (Even If You Don't Have a Book Published)
• 3 types of clues...
• How to Write an Addictive Mystery: Suspects, Secrets, and the Art of the Reveal
• How to Foreshadow in ANY Genre (Without Giving Yourself Away)
• NEW VIDEO: How to Hide Clues in Plain Sight (Without Giving Yourself Away)
• How to Plant CLUES and MISDIRECTIONS that Keep Your Reader Guessing
• Your character’s goal is the plot...
• AskAbbie LIVE: Writing & Creativity Q&A (Plus Live Chat Questions!)
• Don’t wait until the end of your story to figure out what it’s actually about. 👀
• NEW VIDEO: How to Write a Theme They Will Never Forget ✨
• How to Write a Powerful Theme (Without Being Preachy)
• Dialogue should never just fill space - it should force the story to move.
• Are my characters in a different place than when the conversation started?
• NEW VIDEO: How to Write Dialogue That Actually Moves the Plot
• How to Write Dialogue That Actually Moves the Plot
• The Secret to Writing ANY Time Period (Without Info-Dumping)
• Write With Me Livestream ✨✍🏼 Deep Focus Session
• Don’t describe the world. Let the reader experience it.
• How to Write Immersive Descriptions That Transport Readers to Another Place and Time
• How to Write Immersive Descriptions That Transport Readers to Another Place and Time
• The best research is the research your reader never notices...
• The fastest way to tell if research matters...
• How to Research So You Sound Like an Expert (Not a Textbook)
• How to Research Your Story Without Info-Dumping
• AskAbbie LIVE: Writing & Creativity Q&A (Plus Live Chat Questions!)
• Trust the audience to read between the lines...
• Subtext is the hidden meaning behind what we say...
• NEW VIDEO! How to Write Subtext (So Readers Can Read Between the Lines)
• How to Write Subtext (So Readers Can Read Between the Lines)
• Hot take 🔥 DON’T write what you know
• Make Your Story Matter is officially out in the world, and it still doesn't feel real to me!! 🥹
• I've waited 8 years for this.
• How to Write TWO Characters That Actually Sound Different
• Write With Me Livestream ✨✍🏼 Deep Focus Session
• My go-to framework for writing two narrators who never blur into one ✨
• NEW VIDEO: How I Give My Dual POV Characters Completely Different Voices
• How to Write TWO Characters That Actually Sound Different
• Why Your Character Needs More Than One Goal
• NEW VIDEO: Stop Giving Your Character Just ONE Goal
• What makes a character actually complex? Conflicting motivations.
• Project Hail Mary’s brilliant use of flashbacks
• Write With Me 👩‍💻✨ Summer Writing Retreat Session 4
• 3 Keys to Flashbacks That Work
• NEW VIDEO: How Flashbacks Actually Work (And How to Write One)
• The Psychology of a Perfect Flashback
• AskAbbie LIVE: Writing & Creativity Q&A (Plus Live Chat Questions!)
• Write With Me ✍🏼🌼 Summer Writing Retreat Session 3
• ✨ It's not too late to join...
• Don't miss the free bonuses...
• Don't miss the free bonuses...
• Write With Me 🌸💻 Summer Writing Retreat Session 2
• when your brain is so tired it stops seeing problems 😵
• Write With Me ✨✍🏼 Summer Writing Retreat Session 1
• Ready to Write This Summer? Join My Free Writing Retreat!
• Ready to Write This Summer? Join My Free Writing Retreat!
• Write With Me Livestream ✨✍🏼 Deep Focus Session
• AskAbbie LIVE: Writing & Creativity Q&A (Plus Live Chat Questions!)
• Cheerleader sevens 🌟
• Write With Me Livestream ✨✍🏼 Deep Focus Session
• Self preservation sevens 💥
• Writing Type 7 Characters — "The Enthusiast" (Enneagram for Writers)
• Criticism is inevitable...
• Are you making this mistake?
• NEW PODCAST: The 5 Biggest MISTAKES New Authors Make (and how to avoid them)
• The 5 Biggest MISTAKES New Authors Make (and how to avoid them)
• FREE short story prompt guide!
• 4 questions I ask myself every time I edit a book 
• I stopped having writer’s block after this
• Write With Me Livestream ✨✍🏼 Deep Focus Session
• Need a Short Story Idea? Try THIS.
• How to Come Up with a Short Story Idea (in 10 minutes or less)
• This is why I gave up on writing advice
• This is pretty much the worst book review ever
• Write With Me Livestream ✨✍🏼 Deep Focus Session
• AskAbbie LIVE: Writing & Creativity Q&A (Plus Live Chat Questions!)
• Are your characters making the smartest decision… or the one that feels emotionally true to them?
• What’s the worst part of being a writer?
• Let's Write Together ✨✍🏼 Deep Focus Livestream
• Choice → action → reaction → new choice. That’s how a story keeps moving.
• Plot = Cause & Effect
• NEW VIDEO: How Character Decisions Drive Plot (And Fix Boring Stories)
• Why Characters Make Bad Decisions (And Why Great Stories Need It)
• Writing at a Mystical Mountain Temple From Dusk Till Dawn 🏔️ (Fantasy Ambience + Music)
• You’re Training Mystic Arts at an Ancient Mountain Temple
• NEW PODCAST: Why You Fell Out of Love With Your Story