Welcome to the ultimate publish of the yr! And what a yr it’s been. As I look again on 2025, I’m full of gratitude for the wonderful conversations, creativity, and progress this writing neighborhood has shared. For me, this yr felt like a time of tying up free ends and finishing lengthy arcs. It was a season of transition and closure that’s opened the door for thrilling new chapters forward.

This was an enormous yr for me. In some methods, it felt like possibly even the perfect yr of my life. Simply… goodness, you recognize. For many of it, I’ve felt extremely wholesome and completely happy and simply deeply grateful for all of the adventures which have introduced me right here and all of the adventures but to come back.

Along with attending to do quite a lot of touring all around the nation, I centered on settling into my new residence and finishing vital tasks.

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• I additionally began what I meant because the “small” venture of manufacturing some fillable digital worksheets. This rapidly grew to become an enormous venture as I saved developing with an increasing number of concepts for worksheets I needed so as to add!

• I had an unimaginable expertise taking part within the WorldShift on-line writing summit in August (keep tuned for information about subsequent yr!). I cherished presenting on the deeper connections of plot/theme/character and was so impressed by everybody’s enthusiastic responses and interplay. I sit up for presenting once more subsequent yr, and it has impressed and inspired me in quite a lot of the tasks I’m excited to be exploring and sharing with you quickly!

• I used to be honored for Serving to Writers Grow to be Authors to obtain its eleventh point out in Author’s Digest‘s 101 Finest Web sites for Writers.

• And I had enjoyable taking part in one other considerate video from StudioBinder.

I’m brimming with plans for subsequent yr. I’m nonetheless deep within the researching/outlining section with my fantasy WIP Wildblood, taking my time and listening deeply as I am going deeper and deeper with my very own experiences and theories about storytelling.

In 2026, you’ll be able to look for lots of thrilling new issues right here. For one factor, you’ll possible be seeing an entire new search for the web site and my branding. I’m additionally planning to begin sharing extra lessons. I finally wish to put collectively a grasp course that covers the whole lot I train about storytelling and gives you all of the instruments you have to perceive tips on how to write stable tales.

After the enthusiastic discussions in response to a number of articles I wrote final yr about our collective starvation for a deeper, more true, and extra mythically grounded storytelling, I’m additionally extremely impressed and excited to be planning a lot deeper explorations of how we are able to write not simply “technically good” tales, however tales that ignite and provoke ourselves and everybody who reads them.

Keep tuned! You may search for all this and extra right here subsequent yr! And if you happen to’d like to listen to extra about my private adventures and reflections on the previous yr, remember to test again subsequent week for my annual New 12 months’s publish.

A few of My High 10 Posts of 2025

And now, simply in case you missed them (or wish to revisit them):

1. What’s Occurred to Fashionable Storytelling? (+ 6 Methods Storytelling Can Discover Its Soul Once more)

2. The 5 Sorts of Scene Endings Each Author Should Grasp

3. Want a Good Ebook Editor? High Up-to-Date Suggestions

4. 7 Methods to Watch and Learn Extra Deliberately

5. Is This the Various to the Monomyth We’ve All Been Looking For?

6. Why Intentional Storytelling Issues in an Period of AI and Algorithm-Pushed Content material

7. Writing a Fall Arc: How one can Present a Character’s Ethical Decline

8. The Guidelines of Fiction: What They Are and What They’re Not

9. How one can Make Your Fantasy World Really feel Actual: 6 Pillars of Natural Worldbuilding

10. Why All Tales Are Fantasy—and How They Rework Us

Wordplayers, inform me your opinions! What was essentially the most memorable writing occasion for you in 2025? Inform me within the feedback!