You finally have the time to sit down and write. But lo and behold, distractions block your way to a truly productive writing time.
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How to survive NaNoWriMo
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) begins today! A demanding feat only attempted by the most ambitious writers, NaNoWriMo challenges novelists to write an entire book (50,000 words) during the month of November.
Failing Better: aka, Handling Rejection
As a career writer, failure and rejection will happen. The key is understanding how to turn that rejection into motivation and a learning experience.
National Dictionary Day
National Dictionary Day is an excellent chance to expand your “sesquipedalian” reperoire …
A Case for Clichés
It’s practically one of the ten commandments of writing: don’t use clichés.
But perhaps clichés do have some place in our writing …
Beating Procrastination
We’ve all been there. You sit down to start writing, editing or finishing a very important assignment and bam! Your mind fills with inclinations to do a million little other things instead.