Have you heard of National Novel Writing Month? If you haven’t, I’ll tell you. The thirty days of November is a challenge to write 50,000 words in a month, to write a full-length novel in one month. It started in 1999, and while its internet-based, the program includes a lot more than thousands of people…
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Get Writing Done: Set Deadlines
Writer’s Digest, a popular American magazine that focuses on writers and writing advice, has a pdf article called “Why A Writer Without a Deadline is Looking for Trouble.” It’s a downloadable link that you can find at the end of this post. Every time I slow down with my writing, procrastinate more and more, start…
Intentions Don’t Write Books
One day during conversation, a woman, let’s call her Lacy, asked me how I went about self-publishing my debut novel The Other Side, as she wanted to publish her book. I told her the process I went through with self-publishing through KDP. After, I asked Lacy about her book that she wants to publish. Lacy…
The Truth About Procrastination
There are days when I can’t write. Nothing on the paper. Nothing on the computer. Blank space. What am I waiting for? What am I afraid of? What holds my fingers back from the keys and keeps my pen from the paper? Most people would probably say fear. Fear of failure. Fear that whatever I…
Work In Progress – Zak Pittman (Untitled)
The novel I am currently working on has no title, so the WIP is going by the name of its main character, Zak Pittman. This book has come a long way. When I originally thought of it, the story was about a boy named Zakariya Pittman, a poor young adult necromancer sorcerer who didn’t…
The Journey Begins
My debut novel, The Other Side, took eight years to write due to lack of motivation, procrastination, poor decision making, lack of wise time management, and a lot of writer’s block. Yet, on September 12, 2018, The Other Side arrived onto Amazon, available for e-book and paperback. So many emotions ran through me on that…
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