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  • How To Write A First Draft Without Giving Up

    How To Write A First Draft Without Giving Up

    Julian Gough, Irish novelist, memoirist, poet and playwright, gives densely packed advice in his essay How To Edit Your Own Lousy Writing. He explains the “job” that a first, second and third draft each do, editing a hypothetical scene as a concrete example.


  • What’s The Best Writing App For NaNoWriMo?

    What’s The Best Writing App For NaNoWriMo?

    Photo via Visual Hunt Do you have the start of your novel in a Google doc? A note on your phone? Or perhaps you spent the first week of NaNoWriMo meticulously organising an empty outline in Scrivener? Here are some of the writing tools that amateur novelists swear by.


  • When Is The Best Time For Creative Writing? [Infographic]

    November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for those in the know, and already hundreds of thousands of participants will be busily writing as part of their journey to becoming novelists. Yet those who have to balance novel writing with full time work, family and social life might find it hard to know when…