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New Book Review of Janet Evanovich’s How I Write is Up!

I just put up a review of Janet Evanovich’s writing book, How I Write (written with Ina Yalof), it can be found here ready to please you.

When it all goes horribly wrong

Sometimes you have a disaster of a day, or a week, or a month and your writing grinds to a halt. It can be very hard to regain your initial momentum and energy. I found that very much today where after a few things went a bit awry I found that facing the next scene [...]

Whoops

As one of my excellent, observant friends, R, pointed out to me, I had a rough draft up in place of chapter two.  So for those of you who have therefore  seen the rough drafts of chapters three four and five, I hope you enjoyed them. Sorry about the typos. I hope I would’ve noticed [...]

Beating Writer’s Block Part Two

In part one I went over strategies for stopping the writer’s block when it was linked to you being over tired. This issue we’re going to deal with an equally common problem, and one that’s got a few easy fixes. The Problem: “There ain’t nothing in here…” While a lot of people experiencing writer’s block [...]

When you’re too busy

“I’m way to busy to write right now. I’ll do some more writing next week.” Yeah, right… I’ve said that to myself many times, and every time I’ve utterly failed to write anything in the alloted time. The strange thing about being busy is that it follows you around like a hungry hyena. If you’re [...]

Impossible Goals update

It’s all going rather well actually. I got to the end of chapter 5, and I’ve hit my word count (just). Now the bigger mission begins, finish draft one before the end of July. I’ve been mapping out he rest of the novel, so I know more or less where I’m going. I’m not a [...]

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