By Kerry Schafer Procrastination. A fascinating topic — one I can spend hours discussing, analyzing, and lamenting as a lovely (and valid) evasion from whatever task I’m procrastinating from. Now, I know procrastination has a bad rap, and a lot of people think its roots lie in sheer laziness. This is a myth that…
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Pushing Through The Middle: Tips for the NaNoWriMo Crowd and Other First Drafters
by Lori DeBoer If you are hitting your daily word count (about 1,666) for National Novel Writing Month, by the time this post is published you’ll be nearly about halfway through your 50,000-word goal and sailing into the middle stretch of your novel. This is where the story gets complicated. The middle passage is the…
Easy Steps to Polish That Draft!
by Jeffe Kennedy November 1st signaled the start of a month of intense novel writing for many people: the onset of NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. For me, it was Deadline Day for the second book in my Twelve Kingdoms trilogy. I pulled it tighter than I’d like. I finished the draft by mid-September…
The Worry List
The Worry List – by Kerry Schafer It’s hard to write when your head feels like the kitchen junk drawer. You know the one. It’s the place for random elastic bands and those little plastic things from bread bags. Coupons you’re going to use some day. The screw that inexplicably dropped out of the bottom…
After the Critique: Sorting the Good Advice from the Bad
by Lori DeBoer You’ve done the drafts and decided to test the publishing waters by sharing your writing with your inner circle. Or maybe you’ve signed up for a slot with a local or online critique group. While your manuscript is out and you are waiting for feedback, it’s a good time to calm your…