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Boost Your Writing With These Must-Know Literary Devices

Discover how imagery, metaphors, and other essential techniques bring your words to life. “I could never write like that.”“I’m just not a literary writer.” If I had a dollar for every time a friend, student, or fellow writer said something like this… well, I’d at least be able to buy myself a new notebook. This…

What to Do When Your Draft Isn’t Working

A Writer’s Guide to Not Spiraling Every writer has a few moments in the drafting or revising process where they stop, stare at the manuscript, and think, Oh no. This is a disaster. You know the moments I’m talking about: your plot veers off in twelve directions, your characters are suddenly acting like they have…

Querying Mistakes I Made (So You Don’t Have To)

We’ve all been there, right? The endless querying trenches, staring at your inbox like it might suddenly start producing miracles. In my last post, I talked about the things that helped me finally land my dream agent (after, ahem, a very long road). But if I’m being honest, that road was also paved with a…

Big News! My Book is Being Published!

A Dream Years in the Making (and the Moment It Became Real) It’s a Dream Come True!I was in the middle of teaching when my watch buzzed and I saw the flash across the screen of the email. It was first offer on the book I had spent months (years!) working on. I temporarily forgot…

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About Me

Hi, I’m Cate. I’m a writer, children’s author, and teacher. My work has appeared in Highlights, Muse, Cricket and many more! When I’m not writing, I can be found running, sipping coffee and daydreaming. I live in Wisconsin with her family.

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