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Click this link to hear this blog post as a podcast with your favorite podcasting app! Hello lovelies and welcome back to the blog. We’ve been talking about drafting your novels and specifically about getting through multiple drafts of your novel (if that’s your jam). What we’re really talking about is the process of revising …
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I thought I'd take a break from talking about drafting this week and talk instead about something that fascinates me, which is personality tests. I will make this writing related, since that's what you're here for. So we'll talk about two personality tests I've taken and how they both hurt and help me in my writing career.
Click this link to hear this blog post as a podcast with your favorite podcasting app! Hello lovelies and welcome back to the blog. Two weeks ago, I talked about how many drafts a writer needs. As with everything, it depends on a number of elements. I wanted to provide a contrasting sort of comparison …
Continue reading "Terry Goodkind’s Drafting Method"
Brandon Sanderson is a writer who goes through many revisions. He talks about this over several years during his BYU class lectures on YouTube, and I wanted to distill his process down from several videos, which I will link at least one of them in the description for the podcast and below this blog article for anyone who wants to hear him talk about it more in depth.
Click this link to hear this blog post as a podcast with your favorite podcasting app! Hello lovelies and welcome back to the blog. We've gone through previous posts talking about the drafting process and specifically about zero drafts and first drafts. If you haven't by now you're probably starting to wonder just how many …
Continue reading "How Many Drafts Does it Take to Write a Novel?"
Have you ever read a really good book? I mean one of those great books that made you want to become a writer? The ones full of descriptive worlds, achingly real characters, and beautiful prose? You read certain pieces of writing, and just about die on the spot because the writing is so good. Then you come back to your own draft and you want to burn your entire novel world to the ground. You get into this terrible mindset where that book you read was so good, and you’ll never hope to write or publish anything that good ever in your lifetime so why even try?
Click this link to hear this blog post as a podcast with your favorite podcasting app! Hello lovelies and welcome back to the blog. Do you write in multiple sessions in a given day, squeezing in writing time in the in-between moments? Do you dictate on your morning run, feverishly use your phone to access …
Continue reading "Are You An Intermittent Writer?"
Hello Lovelies, and welcome back to the blog. It's a new quarter, which means it's time to set some new goals, so let's jump straight in. Here we are back at the Kanban-style Trello Board. If you’ve been here a while, you’ll already be familiar with this, but for those that aren’t, I use Trello …
Continue reading "2021 Q2 Goal Setting"
Hello Lovelies, and welcome back to the blog. We’re ending out another quarter, so it’s time for another goals recap post. If you remember from last time, I set some goals at the beginning of Q4. As a refresher, they looked like this. Now, my Trello board looks like this. Not bad, right? A decent …
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Do you set daily or weekly writing goals, and consistently meet them? If you live and die by the idea that you have to write every day, you might be someone who writes slow and steady. Slow and steady writers will chunk out their work and try to reach a certain word or page count goal every day or every week. This type of novelist keeps a steady pace, pushing forward one step at a time.
