How can I proofread my own work?
5 tools for dealing with the slow writing days
What’s the best way to keep notes for your writing project?
How do you know if your writing is “good enough”?
5 tips for tackling multiple writing projects at the same time
How can you be sure that your ideas are good enough to be published?
How do you deal with rejection?
5 tips to get yourself writing
But what does it actually mean to “kill your darlings”?
Why I write about serial killers
How do you get back to a writing project you haven’t worked on in a while?
So you want to write an academic book proposal
The usual parts of an academic book proposal
How do you know when it’s time to stop researching and start writing?
Do your rough drafts ever get … less rough?
Breaking down the writing process
How do you care about a project for months?
What’s your writing schedule look like?
On good days, write. On bad days, write.
Too many things left on this to-do list.
Tools of the trade: hybrids – analog – digital
About handling multiple projects again …
How do you encourage a writer?
“Don’t compare your rough draft to someone else’s final product.”
1 like = 1 fact about me as a writer
What we leave out when we talk about writing
“Do you do more research for your fiction or your nonfiction?”
“How much do you talk about a project while you’re working on it?”
“Do you actually write every day?”
Do you think about writing rules or advice while you’re writing?
What do you think of NaNoWriMo? Is it worth it?
Do you “cast” your characters in your head?
What role does the setting play in your plot?
Nitty gritty: narrative timelines
What makes you put a book down without finishing it?
“Do you ever get into a writing funk where you just can’t summon the energy to write?”
Learning to write all over again
so you want to talk about flesh prisons (aka characters’ physical descriptions)
to outline or not to outline: that is the question
current state of the (nonfiction) manuscript
musings on unsolved crimes, inspired by the Writing Community Chat Show
the overthinking of the author