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So, NaNoWriMo—National Novel Writing Month. You’ve learned your first term about the upcoming month in last week’s post. But there’s…
Oh my god next month is November. And you know what that means, right? NANOWRIMO TIME! For those aren’t in…
All of us writer-types have been there. You’re in the shower, and you have An Idea. You’re falling asleep, glasses off, phone…
Spoiler alert: I have a shitton of characters. I have a lot of projects and I tend to end up…
Pacing is either something you get and do, or something you struggle with. And how to smooth over transitional scenes…
Your usual reminders—purchase from bookshop.org and never the big store named after a South American forest! Or, even better, your…
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Trauma is a pretty broad topic to give advice on, just because there’s such a range of reactions to trauma. There are wrong ways…
For the last part in this little mini-series that started with horror and has evolved into content and trigger warnings,…