Tag: writing
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The Making of a Novel: Week 5
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Author’s Note: This article was originally published on August 4th, 2022 as part of a blog series about a novel I was ghostwriting for a client without the use of AI (though I have since used AI to generate some of the images). If you haven’t read the introduction yet,…
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The Making of a Novel: Week 4
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What do you do when, in the midst of writing a book, you become inspired by an idea for a different story? What do you do if the new idea becomes so compelling, so exciting, that you simply can’t stop thinking about it?
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The Making of a Novel: Week 3
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As much weight as I give to the writing advice of Hemingway, however, this doesn’t have to be the experience of every writer. Dean Wesley Smith, for instance, an author with nearly two hundred published novels to his name, follows a one-draft method during which he cycles back and forth…
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A boy, a bike, and a house from hell (WIP #1)
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Having finished the three stories already uploaded (“Dream Machine,” “Dead of Night,” and “6 Volts”), the story I next want to finish is called “Overgrown.” I wrote this story, which currently clocks in at about 14k words (though that also includes a few thousand words of notes), in 2020, and…
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The Making of a Novel: Week 2
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Author’s Note: This article was originally published on June 30th, 2022 as part of a blog series about a novel I was ghostwriting for a client. If you haven’t read the introduction yet, you can find it here. After that, you can read how the first six days of this project…
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The Making of a Novel: Week 1
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One of the challenges of writing fiction is learning how to deal with feeling uninspired. One of the best hacks for this is breaking the job down into workable chunks. That’s what I like so much about…
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The Making of a Novel
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Author’s Note: This article was originally published on June 16th, 2022. No AI was used in the writing of this book (or this article, for that matter). “I wouldn’t have any idea how to do that.” “I wouldn’t know where to start.” “I could never do what you’re doing.” These…
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Determined Discontent
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If all you can do is be discontented, be discontented. If all you can do is be restless, be restless. Wake morning after morning, wishing you had more time to write. Work day after day at your nine-to-five job, wishing you were lost in the stories of your imagination.
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Why Serial Fiction Deserves More Attention
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There’s something special about a story that is not yet finished, like a live drama unfolding before our eyes. It may be scripted, yes, the conclusion may already be planned even if it hasn’t yet been realized…