Writer Resources
Free, Practical Resources to Strengthen Your Writing Career
These conversations and reflections are designed to keep you thinking, growing, and moving forward. On Making It Up, I sit down with working authors to talk candidly about craft, career pivots, rejection, and the long road to publication. Listening to other writers has always sharpened my own work, which is why I built the podcast in the first place.
On my YouTube channel, you’ll find focused motivations and guided meditations created specifically for writers. These are quiet, immersive sessions you can slip into with headphones, designed to help you think clearly, reconnect to your purpose, and steady your path forward. Each piece draws from years of experience in writing and publishing, distilled into practical insight that supports your craft, your mindset, and your long-term commitment to the work.
Making It Up Podcast
Making It Up is an unscripted video podcast about the real work of being a writer. Each episode is a deep, unplanned conversation with writers at every stage of the journey. New York Times bestselling authors. Award winners. Debut novelists just getting started. No prepared questions. No talking points. We follow the conversation wherever it goes.
Available on Carter’s website or download wherever you get your favorite podcasts.
Featuring Up-and-Comers to Best-Sellers
Karen Dionne, author of The Marsh King's Daughter
Tim Booth, author of When I Died for the First Time
Lisa Gardner, author of "Still See You Everywhere"
Tess Gerritsen, author of The Surgeon
Javier Castillo, author of The Snow Girl
A.G. Riddle, author of The Extinction Trials
Alisa Valdes, author of Hollow Beasts
Motivations and Meditations for Writers
Motivations for Writers
Whether you’re a writer facing rejection, a creative battling self-doubt, or simply someone looking for more meaning in life, this playlist is here to help you keep going.
Meditations for Writers
These sessions are designed to help you quiet your mind, focus your energy, and build the emotional resilience every writer needs.
Write better. Think clearer. Get unstuck.
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