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Somehow, I’ve made it to the one-third mark of my novel, and it feels like a real achievement. Of course, the thought of revisiting it all during the editing process fills me with a mixture of dread and curiosity. Here’s hoping I don’t feel compelled to toss the whole thing into the virtual wastepaper bin…
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“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut,” Stephen King, On Writing. The advice to write a lot, ideally every day, is simple in theory but often challenging…
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“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird There’s a reason why so many have written about the first attempts at writing a book, an article, a thesis, anything really. It’s messy and it takes time. And if it isn’t messy, it takes even…
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“… you must not come lightly to the blank page.” Stephen King, On Writing. There’s a reason why there are so many articles and posts written about the blank page. It is daunting and scary: What should I write? Do I have the ability to write? Will it be good enough? These are the questions…
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I have been writing my entire life, both fact and fiction. My parents kept a stash of my old writing from childhood when I dreamed of being an author and wrote endless amounts of poetry and short stories. I even started writing a novel in high school, something about a brother and sister who were…