Rewriting Revision
Novel Incubator writer Caitlin Maskowitz discusses how fresh reader feedback helped energize her and improve her novel.
July 10, 2025 Journal
The Writer's Desk
Memoirist Stacey Hall Burge explores how embracing despair—symbolized by her family's darkly whimsical "Tree of Despair" holiday tradition—becomes vital to both living authentically and writing tr...
January 09, 2025
The Writer's Desk
After finishing her novel's first draft, Olivia Kenney took a break to welcome her new baby. Six months later, she returned to revise her novel, finding joy in a fresh perspective.
June 27, 2024
Trust the Process
After gathering insights from other authors, book inc founder J. Greg Phelan realizes he's not the only one who struggles between the joy of perfecting prose and the necessity of structured planning. ...
May 23, 2024
Room to Write
book inc Peer Artist Leader Jennifer Gaites reflects on the reluctant lessons she learned as a teen from her father about writing and how she is applying those lessons now to her novel revisions.
February 15, 2024
The Inside Scoop
Elizabeth Jannuzzi, Memoir Incubator's Peer Artist Leader, shares some writing tips and advice she's learned during her writing journey.
January 25, 2024
Trust the Process
Indecision about his next step plagues book inc director and novel writer J. Greg Phelan. Should he keep revising or start querying?
November 30, 2023
Getting It Done
A recent foot surgery slows down book inc writer Shanda McManus and gets her thinking about the benefits of a forced slowdown in her writing.
November 02, 2023
The Writer's Desk
With a revision deadline looming, Rachel Deel finds herself in Antarctica with no access to her novel except for a recorded feedback session.
June 29, 2023
The Writer's Desk
Delighted that her garden produced vegetables, Elisheva Trenk contemplates a passage from Julia Cameron’s "The Artist's Way" and how effort is tied to results.
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