#5onFri: Five Ways Writing a Novel Is Like Running a Marathon
…your journey, if you master your mindset, prepare, resist shortcuts, remember your why, and you don’t settle, you can achieve your dreams. Heather Campbell is a book coach and editor…
…your journey, if you master your mindset, prepare, resist shortcuts, remember your why, and you don’t settle, you can achieve your dreams. Heather Campbell is a book coach and editor…
…O/se/dax, the leg/less worm, lands on whale-fall, digs in firm. As it happens, both lines have the same number of syllables, but I don’t generally count syllables in rhyming poetry,…
…commercial (egad, I’m dating myself) said, “I told two friends, and they’ll tell two friends, and so on, and so on . . .” It’s word of mouth on steroids….
Well hello there, writers! How are you all doing out there? Oh, you’re struggling? Yeah, me too. At least, I’m struggling to write this post. You see, this is the…
…several of the scenes (5-10), both alone and in context, to see what makes these scenes so enduring. I assure you, this list is worth bookmarking, screenshotting, even printing out…
…feel fulfilled. With this commitment to your novel, you’ll be able to stick to writing, for example, 500 words per day, at 6 in the morning, before you go to…
…rejection. Only this time it was a four paragraph long rejection with extremely detailed comments, telling me where to expand, what characters to develop, what additional storylines I might want…
…of short, short stories by literary greats. You will find Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Kate Chopin and Franz Kafka among the many authors in this list of stories, which has…
…talking. It creates a whole new scenario in which you can expand your story, topic, scene, thought, plot, etc. 4. Cozy Up with an Old-Fashioned Book of Fairy Tales Remake…
…an ambiguous one. Resisting this means you are more comfortable accepting other perspectives, more empathetic, more emotionally intelligent, more thoughtful, and, of course, more creative. Your story doesn’t need an…