Countdown to NaNoWriMo - structuring your novel
NaNoWriMo September is drawing near. That means it’s only two months away from beginning the latest challenge for National Novel Writing...
Novel Writing: An endurance sport
I had forgotten that writing a novel is an endurance sport mixed in with monastic solitude. But, here we are at the end of National Novel...
A Writer's Toolkit: Beginning your Novel
I wish there was a way to wave a magic wand and the beginning of a novel would suddenly appear. It doesn’t work like that, as any author...
Multiple projects
A friend of mine recently emailed me about how to go about working on multiple projects. I advised against it. It’s slightly different...