How I Organize My #Amwriting Life (FREE Template Included!)

I was originally going to title this post “How to Organize Your #Amwriting Life” but honestly I don’t want to tell anyone what to do in their own writing process. So, I am going to share how I organize my writing life with the hope that you can find even a single gem that might […]

Book Review: How to Write a Novella in 24 Hours by Andrew Mayne

Rating: Three out of five stars This book is a mixture of pretension, humble-bragging, and helpful advice. Within the first page, Mayne discredits NaNoWriMo as not being a “real” writing marathon – “I think marathon writing (a real writing marathon – not NaNoWriMo 30-day writing) is great training for a writer” – and then proceeds […]

Writer’s Block and the Muse

It’s Day 8 of Camp NaNoWriMo, and I feel as if I am losing my will to write. I haven’t felt writer’s block in years. To tell you the truth, I tried not to believe writer’s block existed. I figured, “If I write something every day, then I can’t possibly get writer’s block.” I thought […]