novelist

  • Making My Own Way in a Writing Career

    I have been writing seriously since I was sixteen. Back then, I was convinced that I was going to become a published author and live the good life like JK Rowling (you know, before…). But then, I was bit by the acting and performing bug . I put my writing aside for the rest of

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  • How I Write Books

    How I Write Books

    “This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put on word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard.” – Neil Gaiman There are many ways to plan and develop a novel, and it’s up to you as a writer to figure out what works best

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  • The Importance of Writing Consistently

    Recently, I have finished a book in two months and am ahead in my word count for NaNoWriMo all while teaching full-time and finishing grad school. Because of this, a question I keep getting from my students and coworkers is “how do you find the time?” Here’s the deal: I don’t have much time for

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  • Two Lessons Learned from Writing a Book in Two Months

    Exactly fifty-three days ago, I began a novel based on a single idea that had been swirling around in my head for some time. Currently, this novel sits at 320 pages with 110,000 words. While it is still very much a work in progress (the editing stages have only just begun for the first part

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