Joi Massat

End the Slog: How to Write, Finish, and Have Fun Doing It

So you’ve written 500 pages of your novel. Problem: you need a hundred more before you finish. And it’s really wearing on you.

NEWSBLAST: December 2023

This is a free sample of the update posts I’ll now be uploading to my Patreon monthly. Check it out!!

Running Around in Video Game Levels You’ve Completed Already For No Apparent Reason (and Then Also Looking at Maps)

It’s a time-honored tradition.

How to Write After You Break the Streak

I told the world I would write every day. Then I stopped for a week. And now writing is scary again.

Going Back to Gen 1 Pokemon Warped My Brain

This is what real strategy looks like: skewed and archaic.

A Talking Cat!?! Finally, A LitRPG Heroine We Can Believe In

Meet Taipha, the star of my LitRPG series in progress. She’s a cat. She’s a girl. Will she rule the world???

Read on to learn more about her…and her world!

What Is a LitRPG? A Simple Guide for the Deeply Confused

LitRPGs are like books plus video games. And while most websites defining them will assume you already know a lot about video games, I’ll pretend you’re my mom, who hates them and has no idea what kinds of books I’ve been editing for the past several months.

This explanation will be slow and methodical.