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The Year of Writing Furiously

A simple encouragement today – This is the decade of success for you all. This is the year you will finish your novel, and seek…

No Writing on December 1

Unless you are trying to complete your novel at Genre specific word counts (75,000 to 95,000), there is no writing today. Relax. Play a game.…

Busy with NaNoWriMo

I’m writing right now! 18,000 words and I haven’t hit that crucial spot where the book pulls together yet. I’ll have some posts online in…

The Ultimate NaNoWriMo Survival Guide

To get the most out of NaNoWriMo, you need the ultimate survival guide. You don’t have to join a mailing list to get it. No…

Updates and McGuffins

Some quick behind the scenes updates – kind of like Evernote was doing and then sadly stopped! I’ve switched to a new SEO tool (behind…

Do Not Fall for Vanity Press Scams

I should mention – before anything else – the origin of the name “vanity press”. Traditional publishers used to get deluged (still do, but not…

Sobering Reality: Dealing with Internet Bullies

The internet is a good place – for the most part. I can find research on whatever topic I need, some of it credible, some…

Surprising Things from my life I put in my novels

It’s one of those things – you just can’t avoid putting yourself in the novels. It’s a fact – most of my protagonists come from…

The Love of Writing

It feels like I’ve always been writing. All through my life I’ve written. Most of the novels putter out and never got finished, but I…

Novel Ideas That Didn’t Quite Work

The problem with coming up with a million ideas for novels is that usually – about 500,000 of them are class B, 499,000 of them…