Love your bullet journal? Whether you decorate your journal, or not, a bullet journal is an amazing tool both for your reading, and writing. But should you have one journal, or more? Your bullet journal: should you have one, or several? We discussed this at a recent writers’ group meeting. Our ...
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Writing Fiction: 3 Tips For Building A Bigger Novel
Writing fiction presents various challenges. Here’s one that’s a little different: what do you do if you’re concerned that your novel’s too short? This topic came up in one of our writers’ groups meetings last year, and a friend brought it up recently. In some genres (fantasy, for one) readers ...
5 More Things No One Tells You About Writing A Novel
You’re writing a novel. Your emotions change quickly. One day you love your novel; the next you hate it and everything about it. We discussed 5 Things No One Tells You About Writing A Novel in a blog post. Vital: No matter how much preparation and outlining you do, the story you write will be ...
Writing A Novel You Hate: 3 Tips To Help You To Keep Writing
Oh dear, what a disaster. You’re writing a novel, and you hate it. You can’t finish it — you can’t even force yourself to read it with pleasure. What made you think that you could write a novel? You’re disappointed, and ashamed. STOP! I know what comes next… you’re tempted to delete that pile ...
The Disorganized Novelist: Getting Things Done Anyway
How are you at getting things done? If you’re anything like my friends (and me) you struggle. As you may know, I’m currently writing the third book in the clean Regency romance series, The Eardleys Of Gostwicke Hall. (Cover reveal soon.) I’m using a bullet journal for the novel, as ...
Conquer Procrastination: 3 Tips To Help
I hate procrastination, and yet I do it. Instead of focusing on writing, I reread previous scenes, or tell myself that I’ll write tomorrow, because I’m too tired to think. Sometimes procrastination can be useful. For example, if you’re bored with a scene in your novel, and you keep putting it off ...
