Jaclyn Paul is a fiction writer and blogger based in Baltimore. You might know her from The ADHD Homestead, where she writes about building a good life and a peaceful home with adult ADHD. She's also a staff blogger for Inkitt and author of the book Order from Chaos – The Everyday Grind of Staying Organized with Adult ADHD. Her writing has appeared online in Offbeat Families, The Write Life, ADDResources, Better Novel Project, and ADHD Roller Coaster and in print in Houston Family Magazine.
Some writers love drafting. Others love revising. I’m a hardcore reviser. Drafting is but a means to an end: I do it because I need to…
As a literary writer with a love for character-driven stories, I often struggle with pacing. My writing group will tell me things like, “this is a…
I’ve been thinking a lot about setting lately. Perhaps it’s because my own surroundings — necessarily constant thanks to pandemic stay-at-home orders — offer so little…
Pantser though I may be, I’ve learned the hard way not to wander blindly into a first draft. My first novel didn’t take long to draft,…
As I write this, our family has just entered our seventh week of sheltering in place. Gone are the days when I saw my husband off…
Many fiction writers resist the task of building our author brand and platform. It can feel confusing, overwhelming, or even disingenuous. Good writing should speak for…
Fear, like all the big primary emotions, can have infinite root causes. Two people can fear the same thing — say, their partner discovering their secret…
If you’re anything like me, the COVID-19 pandemic has raised some questions about your book marketing strategy. Self-help writers might wonder how to stay relevant, yet…
How does that song go — every story is a love story? It’s true. Even if you don’t write romance into your manuscript, some kind of…
Surely you’ve seen some of the jokes circulating the internet about how literary types have been training for quarantine our whole lives. Someone I follow on…