We are a little late to the party, since CampNaNoWriMo just ended on April 30. But this article’s advice is useful for any writing project. Do some planning Set intermediate goals Write Every Day Try Word Sprints Write in Different Places Curb Distractions Always Carry a Notepad Get Away and Think When You Have No…
We are a little late to the party, since CampNaNoWriMo just ended on April 30. But this article’s advice is useful for any writing project.
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Introduction In the last post, we discussed how to format your manuscript to prepare it for printing (whether it be for traditional publication or print-on-demand. Regardless of which path you take, it is often beneficial to prepare the manuscript for electronic publication as well. The content remains the same, of course, but the formatting is quite…
“Nobody can advise you and help you, nobody,” said Rainer Maria Rilke in Letters to a Young Poet more than a century ago. “There is only one way. Go into yourself.” Rilke, of course, was right – nobody but yourself can help. In the end it all comes down to the strike of the word…
Most of the authors we work with here at Sulis International use either Ulysses App or Scrivener for their writing. Here is a helpful article about setting Scrivener up to make it easier to compile (export) to final forms for submission. Some excerpts: A common anxiety I’ve noticed among my Scrivener students and training clients…
Heather Webb describes the reasons that changing up your writing process and rituals can bring new creativity. With each book, there were pieces of my process that didn’t change, regardless of the structure. I had to discover who my characters were by exploring their backstory. I needed to know where the story began—that inciting incident—and…
How Long Does It Take to Write a Novel? (Anne Charnock for Writers Digest). Of course, the real answer is “it depends.” On the writer, schedule, desire, research needed, and many more options. In this post, Anne compares the writing of her second novel, Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind as compared with her first novel, A Calculated…
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