You find a lost dog, take it home, and call the owner. When they arrive, you’re surprised to find it’s…
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Nanowrimo Diaries: Week Two
Our authors talk about their second week of Nanowrimo, including the benefits of being a trash human and the drawbacks of depending on early mornings.
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Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
Ray Bradbury
Saturday Story Prompt
Write about your protagonist from the perspective of someone who sees them as the villain.
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Nanowrimo Diaries: Week 1
Three Houses Press authors provide their first update on Nanowrimo 2019. And, well, things aren’t starting great.
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.
Robert Frost
Monday Motivational
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have ‘essential’ and ‘long overdue’ meetings on those days.
J.K. Rowling
Monday Motivational
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
E.L. Doctorow
Four Ways to Combat Writer’s Block
A writer’s worst fear is a bout of writer’s block. Here are our four tips for getting out of the funk and back to your work in progress.
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One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I’m going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I’ll have lost nothing–writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.
Lawrence Block
Three Houses Press 