One of the reasons that writer’s block strikes is because we don’t know what the heck our character is doing, or how to get them to do what they’re supposed to do. For example, maybe you need your character to punch someone – a mean classmate, a cocky co-worker – but they just won’t do […]
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Sometimes you’ll find it hard to write. It happens to all of us. No matter how much you love writing, no matter how excited you are about your story and your characters, sometimes you will not be in the mood. And that’s okay! It happens to everyone – yes, even your favourite writer. If the
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I started playing around with a new novel idea lately. It’s very exciting – a new project is always exciting – and I’ve been having great fun playing around and planning. One of the great things about creating my own workbooks and writing planners is that I get to use all of them as much
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Wanting to write but feeling uninspired is the worst feeling. You want to finish the chapter you’re working on. You want to get to a certain scene. Maybe you’re even about to write that scene you’ve been itching to write since you started this thing but it’s like there’s a five-foot-thick wall between you and
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I started off with the best of intentions last January. I made fifty resolutions* big and small, had huge plans! Especially around writing and my business. Then I got pneumonia. TWICE. For the first four months of the year I was so ill that sometimes I was barely able to get out of bed. So
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