I read an excellent post by the author Maggie Stiefvater titled The Giant Butt-Kicking How to Write a Novel Post. It boils down to this quote: “All of these questions are really one question: “How do I write a book?” And the answer, which I will explain in depth, is a simple two-parter: 1 – [...]
I’ve had a good couple of days, both over 1000, though over the last couple weeks my wordcount has fluctuated from 300-800, with a few days off. Yes, 500 words a day is nothing to sneeze at. But I want to get this darn thing done. It’s been about a year since I started writing [...]
Two years ago I had all sorts of assumptions about what I was capable of doing with my writing. I could never write more than a book a year, if I could even do that much. I couldn’t stick to an every day schedule, or hit certain word count goals. I couldn’t write action sequences. [...]