Self-doubt can stifle the creative process and block the ability to express oneself, causing real problems when writing a story. Read on for help.

Have you ever put off starting a project because you didn’t feel creative and were waiting for your muse? Here are ways to find inspiration.

What’s popular this week may not be a few months from now. Should we chase trends? Ellen Buikema shares issues with chasing trends and experimenting with them.

It’s tempting to continue research, ending up with a big pile of resources and not enough time to do anything with them. Here are some better options.

There are things writers do: eat, dream, write if the muse is good to us–-and handle rejection. Ellen shares ways to cope and deal with literary rejection.