Kathryn Craft
@kcraftwriter.bsky.social
Novelist, writing mentor, developmental editor, Writer Unboxed blogger, WFWA. French student, lover of small towns, lakes and wooded paths. #choosethisday
Would you like small-group support, applicable craft, and professional guidance as you draft or revise your novel in 2026? Learn more about my Your Novel Year program today at Writer Unboxed!
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Make Your Novel Soar with Your Novel Year 2026
Is your story starved for energy? I’m Kathryn Craft, and from two decades spent helping clients develop their stories—let alone from my own struggles—I know hard it can be to nourish a novel that h…
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November 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Would you like small-group support, applicable craft, and professional guidance as you draft or revise your novel in 2026? Learn more about my Your Novel Year program today at Writer Unboxed!
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An affirming piece from Lisa Norman in a time of technological change: AI may have trained on my novels, but it won’t replace me as an editor. #editing #ai
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AI Didn’t Replace My Editor—It Made Her Indispensable
Even in 2025, AI can’t match a skilled editor’s insight, nuance, and care. Human editors bring heart, vision, and true partnership to every story.
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October 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
An affirming piece from Lisa Norman in a time of technological change: AI may have trained on my novels, but it won’t replace me as an editor. #editing #ai
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Memoir, or fiction? These questions may help. Decide How You'll Write About Your Life writerunboxed.com/2025/10/09/d...
#writingtip #writingcommunity @writerunboxed.bsky.social
#writingtip #writingcommunity @writerunboxed.bsky.social
Decide How You’ll Write About Your Life
We here at WU believe in fiction’s power, and work every day to improve how we wield it. But many of life’s real events can be spun into equally engrossing stories. This raises a quandary for…
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October 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Memoir, or fiction? These questions may help. Decide How You'll Write About Your Life writerunboxed.com/2025/10/09/d...
#writingtip #writingcommunity @writerunboxed.bsky.social
#writingtip #writingcommunity @writerunboxed.bsky.social
Hey writer friends, thank you to everyone who helped make this an orange banner day! I appreciate you!! #storymovement #novelwriting #topnewrelease
October 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Hey writer friends, thank you to everyone who helped make this an orange banner day! I appreciate you!! #storymovement #novelwriting #topnewrelease
Perspective is an underutilized driver of story in many manuscripts. It drives my nonfiction book, CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT, and it can drive your novel as well. Here’s how.
#writingtip #storymovement #writingcommunity
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#writingtip #storymovement #writingcommunity
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Perspective Will Drive Your Story Forward - Women Writers, Women's Books
by Kathryn Craft “To expand the reader’s perspective is one of literature’s highest callings. Memoir would be pointless without it. Perspective pervades a journalist’s best quotes, energizes speeches,...
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October 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Perspective is an underutilized driver of story in many manuscripts. It drives my nonfiction book, CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT, and it can drive your novel as well. Here’s how.
#writingtip #storymovement #writingcommunity
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#writingtip #storymovement #writingcommunity
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Today’s the big day! Crafting Story Movement: Techniques to Drive Your Novel Forward is now available wherever books are sold. A story that moves can move others. Order through DoylestownBookshop.com to ask for a signed copy. #storymovement #storycraft #novelwriting
October 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Today’s the big day! Crafting Story Movement: Techniques to Drive Your Novel Forward is now available wherever books are sold. A story that moves can move others. Order through DoylestownBookshop.com to ask for a signed copy. #storymovement #storycraft #novelwriting
The countdown has reached “one”—CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT releases tomorrow—and this blurb from @theresewalsh.bsky.social encapsulates my goal in writing it!
#writingcommunity #storymovement #fictionwritingguide
#writingcommunity #storymovement #fictionwritingguide
October 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The countdown has reached “one”—CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT releases tomorrow—and this blurb from @theresewalsh.bsky.social encapsulates my goal in writing it!
#writingcommunity #storymovement #fictionwritingguide
#writingcommunity #storymovement #fictionwritingguide
Want to know more about CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT: Techniques to Engage Readers and Drive Your Novel Forward (out Tuesday!)? Head over to Writer Unboxed for my Take Five interview!
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#storymovement #storycraft #freshperspective
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#storymovement #storycraft #freshperspective
Take Five Interview: Kathryn Craft and CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT
We are incredibly excited to bring you an interview with longtime WU contributor and writing coach Kathryn Craft, featuring a book that we know will be a huge boon to the WU community, CRAFTING STO…
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October 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Want to know more about CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT: Techniques to Engage Readers and Drive Your Novel Forward (out Tuesday!)? Head over to Writer Unboxed for my Take Five interview!
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#storymovement #storycraft #freshperspective
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#storymovement #storycraft #freshperspective
Thank you to @careerauthors.com for this lovely graphic. Shall we dive in, #writingcommunity?
Use force & momentum to set your story into motion with these techniques from award-winning novelist @kcraftwriter.bsky.social, author of the new writing guide CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT. #writersky #writingtips #amwriting
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October 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Thank you to @careerauthors.com for this lovely graphic. Shall we dive in, #writingcommunity?
A lot of great food for thought here, Roz!
What shall we compare writing to today? Training horses! (And considering the true natures of your fictional characters.) nailyournovel.wordpress.com/2015/01/18/t... #writingcommunity #storytelling #writinglife #authorlife #skywriters
The inner horse – and your fictional character’s true nature
I was teaching a masterclass at The Guardian yesterday and we were discussing characters. One of my students said this:‘I think of my characters as horses.’ To be honest, I couldn’t believe my ears…
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October 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
A lot of great food for thought here, Roz!
The words gracing today's Monday meme come from the fiction-writing heart of book marketing dynamo @laineycameron.bsky.social—and they're just what a craft book author wants to hear. One week to go!!
#storymovement #storycraft #writingguide
#storymovement #storycraft #writingguide
September 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The words gracing today's Monday meme come from the fiction-writing heart of book marketing dynamo @laineycameron.bsky.social—and they're just what a craft book author wants to hear. One week to go!!
#storymovement #storycraft #writingguide
#storymovement #storycraft #writingguide
Two weeks to go until CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT: Techniques to Engage Readers and Drive Your Novel Forward releases! This is what former dancer Terez Mertes Rose, who writes so beautifully about movement, had to say.
#storymovement #writingcraft #writingcommunity
#storymovement #writingcraft #writingcommunity
September 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Two weeks to go until CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT: Techniques to Engage Readers and Drive Your Novel Forward releases! This is what former dancer Terez Mertes Rose, who writes so beautifully about movement, had to say.
#storymovement #writingcraft #writingcommunity
#storymovement #writingcraft #writingcommunity
Writers, today I’m over at Writers in the Storm, introducing several ways to achieve story movement in a novel through the important process of managing reader expectation. Check it out!
#storymovement #storycraft
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#storymovement #storycraft
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5 Ways to Manage Reader Expectations | Writers In The Storm
Want to extend an invitation to readers to stay immersed in your story? Us too! Here are 5 techniques from veteran author and editor Kathryn Craft to help.
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September 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Writers, today I’m over at Writers in the Storm, introducing several ways to achieve story movement in a novel through the important process of managing reader expectation. Check it out!
#storymovement #storycraft
#writingcommunity
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Political violence and threats are not the answer.
This is a watershed moment — we can choose to stay silent and live in fear, or we can choose to be loud for peace and compassion.
We must work together to stop this crisis, and it should start from the top with the President.
This is a watershed moment — we can choose to stay silent and live in fear, or we can choose to be loud for peace and compassion.
We must work together to stop this crisis, and it should start from the top with the President.
September 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Political violence and threats are not the answer.
This is a watershed moment — we can choose to stay silent and live in fear, or we can choose to be loud for peace and compassion.
We must work together to stop this crisis, and it should start from the top with the President.
This is a watershed moment — we can choose to stay silent and live in fear, or we can choose to be loud for peace and compassion.
We must work together to stop this crisis, and it should start from the top with the President.
Only 3 weeks until my book, CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT: Techniques to Engage Readers and Drive Your Novel Forward, is released! Here’s what horror, paranormal and sc-fi thriller writer Jonathan Maberry had to say.
#writingcommunity #storycraft #storymovement
#writingcommunity #storycraft #storymovement
September 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Only 3 weeks until my book, CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT: Techniques to Engage Readers and Drive Your Novel Forward, is released! Here’s what horror, paranormal and sc-fi thriller writer Jonathan Maberry had to say.
#writingcommunity #storycraft #storymovement
#writingcommunity #storycraft #storymovement
Hey novelists, do you need an update on what's in and what's out in the publishing world? This was a really good article by an experienced literary agent: electricliterature.com/10-novels-ag...
#writingcommunity #novelwriting #pubtip
#writingcommunity #novelwriting #pubtip
10 Novels Agents Have Seen a Billion Times, and How to Make Yours Stand Out - Electric Literature
If your book is on this list, watch out for these common pitfalls
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September 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Hey novelists, do you need an update on what's in and what's out in the publishing world? This was a really good article by an experienced literary agent: electricliterature.com/10-novels-ag...
#writingcommunity #novelwriting #pubtip
#writingcommunity #novelwriting #pubtip
Now that the Kindle version of my new book is finally up for pre-order on Amazon, it's time for another meme in the countdown to the release of Crafting Story Movement: Techniques to Engage Readers and Drive Your Novel Forward—this one from an author AND dancer!
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#storymovement
#writingcommunity
#storymovement
September 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Now that the Kindle version of my new book is finally up for pre-order on Amazon, it's time for another meme in the countdown to the release of Crafting Story Movement: Techniques to Engage Readers and Drive Your Novel Forward—this one from an author AND dancer!
#writingcommunity
#storymovement
#writingcommunity
#storymovement
Today's #MondayMeme in the countdown to the 10/7 release of CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT is from Nancy Johnson, who—surprise!—included me in the acknowledgments of her debut novel, THE KINDEST LIE. So often, we have no clue who is listening when we put our message out into the world! #writingcommunity
September 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Today's #MondayMeme in the countdown to the 10/7 release of CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT is from Nancy Johnson, who—surprise!—included me in the acknowledgments of her debut novel, THE KINDEST LIE. So often, we have no clue who is listening when we put our message out into the world! #writingcommunity
In the countdown to the 10/7 release of CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT, here's a blurb from David Corbett, whose writing scares me a bit—😅— yet always challenges with his keen observations. When he sent me this endorsement, I was...truly speechless. #MondayMeme #writingcommunity #storycraft
August 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
In the countdown to the 10/7 release of CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT, here's a blurb from David Corbett, whose writing scares me a bit—😅— yet always challenges with his keen observations. When he sent me this endorsement, I was...truly speechless. #MondayMeme #writingcommunity #storycraft
Another #MondayMeme in the weekly countdown to the 10/7 release of CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT: Techniques to Engage Readers and Drivers Your Novel Forward. Each highlights a different facet of my book. #storycraft #writingtips #writingcommunity
August 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Another #MondayMeme in the weekly countdown to the 10/7 release of CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT: Techniques to Engage Readers and Drivers Your Novel Forward. Each highlights a different facet of my book. #storycraft #writingtips #writingcommunity
Novels are built in scenes yet require that a writer tend to the long game. Today on Writer Unboxed I take a look at how novelists can do that, with inspiration from the perfect summer read: Frederik Backman’s My Friends. #writingcommunity #novelwriting
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Play the Long Game
When first setting out to write in a novel’s long form, it’s a relief to learn that after the inciting incident, the episodic nature of each scene carries the same structure: the POV character purs…
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August 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Novels are built in scenes yet require that a writer tend to the long game. Today on Writer Unboxed I take a look at how novelists can do that, with inspiration from the perfect summer read: Frederik Backman’s My Friends. #writingcommunity #novelwriting
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The countdown to release continues with today’s #mondaymeme from writing guru James Scott Bell. I’d only met him once—in 2012!—but he remembered our interaction and said he’d read my manuscript!
#writingcommunity #writingguide #writingadvice
#writingcommunity #writingguide #writingadvice
August 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The countdown to release continues with today’s #mondaymeme from writing guru James Scott Bell. I’d only met him once—in 2012!—but he remembered our interaction and said he’d read my manuscript!
#writingcommunity #writingguide #writingadvice
#writingcommunity #writingguide #writingadvice
It's 10 weeks until the Oct 7 release of CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT: Techniques to Engage Readers and Drive Your Novel Forward, inspired by an art form in which movement is the only language. Kicking off with a blurb from an author & former dancer. #writingcommunity #writingadvice #mondaymemes
August 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It's 10 weeks until the Oct 7 release of CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT: Techniques to Engage Readers and Drive Your Novel Forward, inspired by an art form in which movement is the only language. Kicking off with a blurb from an author & former dancer. #writingcommunity #writingadvice #mondaymemes
Today @writerunboxed.bsky.social, Part 2 of my exploration of all that confident voice offers your fiction. If you missed Part 1, the link is included in the post! writerunboxed.com/2025/07/10/v...
Voice Matters, Part 2
If writing voice is part word choice, part genre-driven, and part worldview, it would seem safe to deduce that one’s writing voice is as individual as their thumbprint. And yet it has constantly am…
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July 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Today @writerunboxed.bsky.social, Part 2 of my exploration of all that confident voice offers your fiction. If you missed Part 1, the link is included in the post! writerunboxed.com/2025/07/10/v...
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Kathryn Craft has a new book coming out! CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT: Techniques to Engage Readers and Drive Your Story Forward @kcraftwriter.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Kathryn Craft has a new book coming out! CRAFTING STORY MOVEMENT: Techniques to Engage Readers and Drive Your Story Forward @kcraftwriter.bsky.social