This is a blog post that both pantsers and planners can get behind—so that no one gets behind during National Novel Writing Month.
5 Non-Writing Ways to Prepare Your Life for NaNoWriMo
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Crafting a Convincing Villain: An Action Plan
7 Steps to Shaping a Strong Protagonist
It’s an age-old question. What came first: the chicken or the egg? The plot or the protagonist?
What if the shaping of the story and your main character happens at the same time?
4 Ways You Can Be Creative on Command
Sometimes, creativity is a choice. You miraculously have the afternoon free to take on your creative project, be it writing, painting, crafts or whatever else lets you be expressive.
Sometimes, creativity is not a choice. You have more days than not in your career where a creative solution from you is needed either minutes before the end of the day or at a high-peak, high-stress moment.
That’s why I wrote this blog post.
Can You Use Too Many Commas in a Sentence?
3 Lessons From My Blog Break
Making Camp NaNoWriMo Work When Life Doesn’t
Here’s how Camp NaNoWriMo goes for me: I pick out a writing project that I’m psyched to write, yet I find myself with the mantra “I’ll start it tomorrow” because of work and family commitments and errands until I find myself with the month over and no words written.
Has this happened to you?
