Itâs Not Too Late: 10 Mini Writing Goals to Accomplish During the Pandemic Countdown
In this article, writer Angie McCullagh discusses how writers can utilize these last few months of lockdown to create realistic and exciting writing goals.
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Mar 9, 2021
It seems safe to say that after a year of lockdown, normal life finally shimmers on the not too distant horizon. Maybe you’ve spent the past 12 months simply surviving, working, and taking care of your family, itching for an hour to write. Possibly you’ve enjoyed vast stretches of solo time, but maybe no motivation to put pen to paper or to open your digital document. Whatever your pandemic situation, you’re not alone if you feel FOMO about writing objectives left unaccomplished.
How to Co-Author a Book: Building Continuity and Avoiding Pitfalls
Co-authors Simon Turney and Gordon Doherty share their top 5 tips for collaborating with another author on a project.
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Meetups
Every few months, we would find a rental cottage somewhere between our respective hometowns and book it out for a long weekend. These get-togethers were where the project kicked off properly, and where all the subsequent big decisions took place. In truth, I don’t think we wrote a single sentence on these weekends. It was all about chatting over beers and asking each other questions to challenge assumptions and mould our plans for the story into something greater than either one of us could have achieved alone. We did produce some actual outputs, though a series and story plan document, a timeline doc, character profile sheets, and the like. Also, we agreed on the narrative style and story structure. It’s essential to establish this kind of framework before ploughing into the ac
The Story That Drove Me to Write
Award-winning author Stephanie Kane shares the book that launched her career and provides insights for how you can pursue your story.
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Mar 4, 2021
Each of us has a story the one that’s ours, the version we alone can tell.
My story launched and has bookended my writing career. For nearly thirty years I sat on it. When I finally did write it, it was a highly fictionalized version, a mystery wrapped in a mystery and penned under a pseudonym. But just as I’d played an unwitting role in the crime on which my story was based, the mere telling of it unwittingly blasted that case wide open. Then a whole new chapter began.
5 Best Practices for Zoom Writersâ Rooms
Author and professor Terri Francis delivers the top 5 tips for making writing in a Zoom writer s room a pleasurable and productive experience.
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Feb 20, 2021
During this protracted period of isolation due to COVID-19, I have discovered the pleasures and paradoxes of writing in Zoom rooms. Being connected to people on a shared mission of writing deepens my focus yet the thereness of people, the sheer endlessness of other people’s, well, humanity, with their feelings, faces, and cool backgrounds and all, threatens my focus on my own work.
5 Best Practices for Zoom Writers’ Rooms