Start a writing habit Why start a writing habit? What's the advantage of writing regularly rather than just when you feel like it? There are several big reasons. Build up your writing muscles The runner jogs every day to prepare for the big marathon, and daily...
I'm participating in NaNoWriMo this year! NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month and it's a fun and frantic challenge to write at least 50,000 words in the month of November with the aim of completing the first draft of a whole book by the end of the...
Download Printable PDF You ever see one of those really pretty bullet journal pages and wish you had something like that for tracking your NaNoWriMo progress but have absolutely no artistic ability? I was having that very feeling when I decided to make this cool...
Hey! Guess what? I have a new book coming out this October! It's called Building a Writing Life, after the talk I've been doing for the last few years, and it's all about getting started as a writer and building up a writing habit. It's the first book in my How to...
Hey, you! Yeah, you, reading this right now. I need your help. You're here because you dig what I've got to say and I really freaking appreciate that. And I'd like to enter into a little mutually beneficial arrangement where you help me out a bit and I give you...
I did drop off the face of the earth for a bit there, didn't I? In the past, I would write, edit and format my blog posts all in a single evening. Because I rarely have a chunk of time long enough to do that anymore, I thought I'd break it up this year. Write, edit,...
There's a new NaNoWriMo guide coming out on August 27th specifically geared towards young writers. It's called Brave the Page by Rebecca Stern and National Novel Writing Month Executive Director Grant Faulkner and I was lucky enough to score an advanced copy. Regular...
Here's something exciting: The Fourth Orange and Other Fairy Tales You've Never Even Heard Of is finally ready to share with the world! This play has been 6 years in the making* and is without a doubt the most complicated thing I have ever attempted to write** but,...
This post is a sequel to my original post about Kanban for writers so you may want to start there. But, if not, here's a quick recap: What is Kanban? Kanban is a project management system that started in manufacturing in which projects are visualized by easily movable...
4TheWords review in a hurry: While sometimes buggy (as you'd expect from a work in progress), it's well worth the occasional quirk for this fun and addictive game that motivates you to write more exactly as advertised! And while the site isn't specifically built for...
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