How To Get Prepared For NaNoWriMo (Preptober)
Note: NaNoWriMo is no longer in existence, and this post is from 2021. However, it has some good information in it, so the author is leaving it live. The links will no longer work. November
Note: NaNoWriMo is no longer in existence, and this post is from 2021. However, it has some good information in it, so the author is leaving it live. The links will no longer work. November
If you know me, then you saw this post coming a mile away. The 22nd of September (today in New Zealand!) is officially International Hobbit Day (and also Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday). So, it’s time
Writing routines and rituals are an important part of the writing process. They are the answer to ‘I don’t have the time to write’ – figuring out a writing routine can help us find available hours in
You may know by now that I am a time blocking fan. Put simply, time blocking enabled me to complete a PhD while working two jobs, and finish two novels in one year with time
Do you worry about writing every day? Should you write every day? Stephen King thinks so, and it works for many other people…but I’m afraid that I’m not one of them. Here’s the issue –
Ah, writer’s block! It can come along at any time and sometimes without warning. Whether or not you believe in it, writer’s block can appear in many guises and hold us back when creating. So
Welcome writer! Do you ever sit down to write and find that instead you’ve spent an hour researching? Well, here’s a little writer’s hack from the mines of my writing brain to limit that issue
Argh, procrastination. Apparently, our attention span has fallen from twelve to eight seconds in recent years (let’s be honest though, twelve seconds isn’t exactly a jamboree of attention). We have so many amazing tools to
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You’ve got those writing tasks to do, and they are not all fun (although, to be fair, a lot of them are). We’re talking research, actually writing a draft, querying, reading, blogging, editing, proofreading…the list
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