NaNoWriMo September is drawing near. That means it’s only two months away from beginning the latest challenge for National Novel Writing...

I had forgotten that writing a novel is an endurance sport mixed in with monastic solitude. But, here we are at the end of National Novel...

We’re approaching November which is National Novel Writing Month. The idea of writing a novel in those 30 days is upon us. The concept is...

I wish there was a way to wave a magic wand and the beginning of a novel would suddenly appear. It doesn’t work like that, as any author...

I've been thinking of some of the (many) mistakes I made when I was starting out as a writer, and thought it would be worth gathering...