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Recent Blog Posts

Four Powerful Ways to Protect Your Writing Time (From Yourself and From Other People)
You almost certainly don’t have all day, every day, to write. In fact, you might only have little pieces of writing time – half an hour here, 15 minutes there, maybe a full afternoon if you plan ahead…

How to Write When … You Have So Many Other Things to Do
This post is part of my ongoing “How to Write When…” series. How do you write when you have so many other things you need to get done? This comes up a lot for writers. I’ve been going through the results of the 2023 Aliventures survey (which closes today). A number of...

What is a Scene? Understanding and Using the Basic Unit of Story Structure
Scenes are the building blocks of your novel. When you plan (if you plan!), you’re thinking in scenes: individual little chunks of story that build on one another as they work towards the conclusion. Like me, you probably feel you have an intuitive…