A Writer’s Playground
My experience: Most writing advice is editing advice. In my experience, it’s rarely helpful in writing a novel-first-draft. If you…
Easy editing tips
NaNoWriMo novels will necessarily need editing! How we write in November is not how we want to read! We write…
Filling the Void
MaNaNaNoWriMo is over. And now it’s back to the mundane activities of ordinary life. Fortunately, we have December holidays to…
Why it is not NaNoWriMo anymore…
Background In 1997, Chris Baty and a group of his friends each set out to write a 50,000 word novel…
MaNaNoWriMo Inspiration
For what it’s worth, I’m sharing some of the tactics I’ve used so far this month to get writing and…
Advice for NaNoWriMo
Of course the best guide to NaNoWriMo is still Chris Baty’s book, NO PLOT? NO PROBLEM! But here is a…
Words! It’s All About Words!
NaNoWriMo is all about getting words down on paper (or digital /virtual paper). We reach for the handy words we…
Heading into Preptober
We prepare for NaNoWriMo in October–hence Preptober! Here are some ideas you can incorporate into your Preptober projects.
The Benefit of a Deadline
…You don’t need a plot before you write a novel, nor do you need an evocative sense of place or…
WHERE DO YOU GET STORY IDEAS?
“…don’t you see things in passing that make you wonder, “What’s all that about?” A couple quarreling in a restaurant,…