Patti M Hall

if you write it they may not come, but you'll feel better. That has to be enough. #thestoryhouse #writingcoach

your book is listening..choose your words well, by @PattiMHall open.substack.com/pub/pattim…

WRITE ON Substack series released FIVE today: "What are they gonna think about your book? substack.com/home/post/p-149…

I'm not a patient person, y'all. . . Today in my blog I'm sharing the elation that my next book finally revealed itself to me...wahoo, right? . . I'm also revealing how that fairies had a giggle, and left me sitting at the table with the quill in my hand. . . Patience, dear wri

Life writing is a bit like this snapshot… it is a glimpse of a life, a thin slice of what you are right now. . . On the earth level of my Elements writing system, you see what you see. What do you see in this photo that would make you curious about the writer? . . That is whe

It's disappointing when life gets in the way. You feel jammed up when you need to take a pause to deal with an event, emotional or physical. We feel frustrated, and start talking about how we aren't "getting anything done", we're "never gonna write this damned book," or "we haven

On this, the day of luck... be braver than ever, writers. Luck favours the brave, they say, and who among us toiling over the page, the paragraph and the phrase, do not consider ourselves brave? amiright? #irish #luck #writers #brave #writeon #pagetoilers #shamrock

Read on as I try to craft scenes that describe the sensations of being in the writing. They vary wildly, and because scenes are central to my writing method (coming soon in my book, Elements) I wanted to show you what I mean in my blog. . . Click on the link in bio to see me "gi

Brace yourself—oh, Wondrous Writer who counts your words, stacks your pages proudly, and uses an app to hit the daily “percentage of manuscript goal”—only a bit of it will end up in your final draft. Because you’ve made meaning of it since you wrote it, AND you’ve liv

We are self-conscious when we consider the reader. So why do it? If you know that grass clipping clog the sink, stop throwing them in there, right? . . Sassy words from the #irreverentbookcoach . . #writingcoach #inherwords #whatshesaid #sass #writeforyou #writingtips #cloggeds

We all feel it at some point. . . You've got a glorious hour of white space in the calendar and you've been itching to get to those revisions from the other day. . . Tea made. Music on noise-cancelling headphones. Warm socks. Dog is content. Ahhhh... . . you peruse the notes on

It's true...I have a new book in the works and I'm coming home to #lifewriting with Elements. It's on my substack today.pattimhall.substack.com/p/my…

Today on Substack (link in my bio/Linktr.ee) I'm taking my own medicine. It's time to put it out in the universe that my new book Elements is in the works. Read all about me returning to my heart's work - life writing - in my forthcoming craftbook, Elements: Reframing Writing I

tick. tick. tick. . . The voice is relentless in January, isn't it? The self criticism around writing goals is so loud right now. Are you feeling it too? . . What's your strategy to get off your own back? Less than subtle jibing? "I've got to get off my butt and write my book." "

This is writing too. . . “I was so upset that I wasn’t getting anything done but after two weeks of time given to kids, family, cooking…” when I got back to my desk I could see that the writing is pretty good. . . Living a life doesn’t mean you aren’t a writer. The

I write and speak a lot about the importance of the Writing Why. . . So I'm outing an epiphany that I had during an interview with Tony Martignetti where he helped me see that my childhood, my parents' in particular, and their skills and interests, pointed me to become the auth

Writing asks us to hear the whisper beyond the noise. That whisper is the truth. . . I invite you to listen harder, and share more deeply. . . #writingtruths #listen #share #writingadvice #writerslife #write #books #writersofinstagram

Writing From The Inside features me and Addison Brasil, author of The First Year of Grief Club and host of the newly released Grief Club, The Podcast on WEDNESDAY at 1130 Eastern on IG LIVE. (my stories has a timer you can use). . . Addison and I are talking process and no one k

My new blog is up on Substack (link in bio). It's an excerpt from my work-in-progress revealing how distractions, denial and just about anything has worked for me to avoid figuring out the big question that lurks around every corner now... . . Where to next? . .#wheretonext #memo