It has been such an incredible year on SarahFoil.com and I want to say a huge thank you to all of my readers. I’ve added new services, new clients, expanded my resources for reviews and opened up to more guest posts and author interviews in the last 12 months. I’ve finished writing multiple books and managed to post twice a week, every single week. Without your support and friendship, there’s no way I would have had the drive to do this on my own, so again thank you.

Every year on November 1st, writers around the world huddle into their desk chairs with a comfy blanket, a cup of coffee/tea/wine/whiskey and commit to writing 50,000 words in one month. NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Moth) is a big goal that asks a lot of a writer’s creative energy and patience, but there are some things you can do this month to help make your November challenge a little bit easier.

Great news! You finished the first draft of your brilliant new novel. Except, maybe it doesn’t read as brilliant as you expected it to when you first wrote it? So your next step is to find a critique group or a partner. Critique groups are a great way to get lots of feedback, but i can often take longer for them to read your whole, completed novel and you need to read and critique everyone else’s work. Instead, critique partners are a one-on-one resources that can help you get most of your review time before you start revising.

We’re about halfway through 2019 and this is a great time for me to check in on my goals for the year. Sometimes as the months go by, it’s easy to lose sight of your goals, so I’m going to use this opportunity to remind myself what my hopes were back in January. I’m also hoping this will provide some motivation for me to catch up on the goals I’m behind on. So let’s take a look:

While writing is a very solitary activity, being alone all the time gets old FAST. Especially if you need help fixing a plot hole in your new book, or learn more about a certain topic, or navigating the crazy world of publishing. Having a group of writers who understand what you’re going through and want to help you is absolutely invaluable. So here are 5 ways you can find your new group of writing friends:

Creating memorable and believable characters for your short stories or novel can be the hardest part of the writing process sometimes. It doesn’t matter how amazing your plot is or how beautifully developed your setting is, without the right characters, your readers won’t feel connected to your writing and won’t want to keep reading. So here are three ways you can create amazing, well developed characters that your readers will fall in love with:

Do you have your first writer’s conference coming up soon? Get excited, you’re going to have an amazing and exhausting time. You’ll get a chance to meet agents, editors and other writing industry professionals. Make sure you come ready to network, guzzle some coffee and learn a lot. But make sure you don’t forget these essentials:

Hi everyone! Today's an exciting day because I've been helping Angela and Becca at Writers Helping Writers keep a BIG secret: what the next book in their thesaurus series will be.

Welcome to 2019! This year marks a number of changes for me and SarahFoil.com, which you can find out more about by clicking here, but I also have a few personal goals for this year.

Thank you all so much for reading, subscribing, liking, commenting and sharing this year. Below are some of your favorite posts to enjoy again or discover:

At the beginning of the year, I set 5 goals for myself this month. While the year isn’t quite over yet, we’re close enough that I wanted to check in and see how things went.

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Welcome to the New Year! I can't believe it at all. It feels like I should still have a couple months left in 2017, but it's too late for that now. It's time to look ahead to what this year will hold and what you can expect from my blog in the next 12 months. 

My blog just started up this year, but you all have spoke up about which posts you liked best! Thank you all so much for reading, subscribing, liking, commenting and sharing this year. Below are some of your favorite posts to enjoy again or discover: