The Lab Report: Writing Motivation & Tools
October 13-19, 2025
This week’s kind of a busy week for me! Camp Fiction Lab 2025 is this weekend, so I’m in the middle of prepping the rest of the workshops and making sure everything is good to go. If you’re attending camp this weekend, keep an eye out for another email from me later today with more details!
Below you’ll find the Lab’s latest podcast, some helpful resources, and info on an upcocming demo for Plottr’s newest tool for authors!
Accountability Check
How’s your writing coming along? What is your writing goal this week? Leave your goals in the comments below and I’ll check in with you! We all need accountability buddies.
Rediscover Your Writing Motivation with Author Seth Ring - Podcast
Here’s the latest podcast episode if you missed it! Author and YouTuber Seth Ring talks to us about how he rediscovers his writing motivation when he falls off the wagon.
This Week’s Resource Library
31 Writing Prompts for October
by our friends at Atmosphere Press
In Praise of Great Exposition
video essay by Thomas Flight
Upcoming Events
Storysnap Demo Next Friday!
Plottr founder Cameron Sutter will give us a live demo of their newest tool for writers: Storysnap. This new tool helps writers build their book bibles and reverse outline!
Webinar: Money for Writers with Author Peggy Doviak
Using information from her book, 52 Weeks to Fearless, Peggy offers information about money for creatives. Each chapter addresses a different financial topic from basic financial skills to paying appropriate sales tax to having adequate estate documents for your heirs. LIMITED AVAILABILITY.
Join our NaNoWriMo Event!
Missing Nanowrimo this year? Join our Discord community to connect with other writers and participate in our Nanowrimo channel!
Alright, I’m keeping this newsletter short and sweet this week so I can focus on the writing retreat. Happy writing!
Wishing you ink-stained fingers and carpal tunnel,
Katrina Schroeder
Author & Editor
Founder of The Fiction Lab
katrinaschroeder.com
My goal is to continue working on my outline specifically including the revised plot line with Thomas becoming Arborean . Shortly thereafter he disappears with Mateo's mother and is not found by the end of the manuscript. Might be found in book 3 or not.