What it Feels Like When Your Writing is Rejected – and How to Bounce Back
What it Feels Like When Your Writing is Rejected – and How to Bounce Back Note: This post was first published in July 2012 and updated in November 2018. One reader asked me: “I’d like to know what it’s like to get rejected by a publisher or several (if that’s ever...
It’s Not Just About Making Time: How Can You Find the Energy to Write?
It’s Not Just About Making Time: How Can You Find the Energy to Write? Making time to write can be tough. Whenever I ask people about their biggest writing challenges, “finding time” usually comes top of the list. For most of us, though, it’s not...
Eight Easy(ish) Ways to Finish the First Draft of Your Novel
Eight Easy(ish) Ways to Finish the First Draft of Your Novel I’m doing NaNoWriMo this month – maybe you are too? (For the uninitiated, “NaNoWriMo” stands for National Novel Writing Month. It happens every November, where people all over the world try to write a 50,000...