I started off this month intending to talk about ways to help your writing by shutting out the world, a thing that seems increasingly difficult to do these days. Instead: heresy! You writers of delicate constitution, turn away now! For I am about to reveal to you the case against participating in National Novel Writing…
So you’re writing a series, say the third volume, just to pull something totally at random and in which in no way applies to me. How do you approach prewriting when you’re looking not just at the book alone, but also in its place in the series? Well, in my dad’s favorite answer to almost…
I’m going to ask for a couple of indulgences here in this post. The first comes in the form of a plug: I’m sure a lot of you have heard of Humble Bundle, but how about StoryBundle? It works in a similar way. Namely, you pay a surprisingly small amount of money for a surprisingly…
Ask a dozen writers for advice on how/how often to write productively and you’ll get a dozen answers. Everyone will eagerly tell you the system that works for them, urging you to replicate it precisely on your way to success. But as we all know from a million ads for personalized products, everyone is different.…