Welcome to The Creative Writing Life.
This is definitely the place for you if you’re looking for author support on how you can build a successful and sustainable creative writing life.
We’re not about hustle culture here. We’re about the writing life, and whatever that means for you.
The Creative Writing Life is here to help you explore your creativity, strengthen your writing practice, untangle the mindset knots that keep you stuck, and keep you returning to the page in a way that actually fits your mind, your energy, your season of life, and your deeper creative self.
This is all about writing YOUR WAY.
You won’t find flashy writing courses or high-priced membership communities here. It’s just words and helpful resources intended to help you live your best author life, written by an author who’s just trying to do the same and sharing what she’s learned along the way. Who is that author? Find out more about Kate Krake here.
What’s On This Site?
Free Articles on Writing
The Creative Writing Life is home to an extensive library of FREE ARTICLES on writing life advice.
BOOKS FOR WRITERS
The Creative Writing Life books are a growing library of practical and thoughtful guides designed to support you through every stage of your writing life.
Across the collection, you’ll find a blend of craft advice, musings on creative practice, and ideas about author mindset.
Some books will help you structure and finish your work. Others will help you understand your mind, your patterns, and the deeper forces that shape your writing life.
WHAT KIND OF HELP DO YOU NEED?
Basics and Essay Collections
Author Mindset
Writing Practice
Guided Writing Journals
A Final Note
There is no single correct way to be a writer.
You do not need to become louder, faster, shinier, smarter, or more machine-like to make meaningful and or productive work.
You need a writing life that you can actually live inside.
That is what The Creative Writing Life is here to help you build, one word at a time.