The novel’s still ticking along nicely. Each day, with no planning at all, more of the plot and characters emerge.[…]
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Quote: Helen Simpson
The nearest I have to a rule is a Post-it on the wall in front of my desk saying “Faire[…]
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One week in to NaNoWriMo and the blank-screen method is still working for me! 11,949 words so far, a whisker[…]
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I’ve read about writers who just sit down and start writing, so I thought that’s what I’d try for NaNoWriMo.[…]
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INTERVIEWER Do you have any idea how a project is going to end? . DOCTOROW Not at that point, no.[…]
Read moreQuote: Don Marquis
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that’s read by persons who move their[…]
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NaNoWriMo – originally short for National Novel Writing Month – is an annual internet-based creative writing event that takes place[…]
Read moreQuote: Hilary Mantel
Write a book you’d like to read. If you wouldn’t read it, why would anybody else? Hilary Mantel .
Read moreWriters at work: Ernest Hemingway
INTERVIEWER: How much rewriting do you do? HEMINGWAY: It depends. I rewrote the ending to Farewell to Arms, the last[…]
Read moreQuotes: Margaret Atwood
Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get apension plan. Other people can help you a bit, butessentially you’re[…]
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