Last night I couldn’t sleep. I’d set my alarm for 6:00 am in order to begin my first day of participation in National Novel Writing Month 2018. Still wide awake at one o’clock in the morning, I tried to talk myself out of getting up to write a mere 5 hours later. But I did… Read More
In the “Write a Novel in a Month” class that I’m taking at the Loft, Abby Cooper spoke about writers riding the horse of self-doubt. And even though I’ve had two middle grade novels published, I finally realized that I’ve been ruled by self-doubt ever since December, 2016, when my agent turned down a major… Read More
Encouragement came in a number of different forms on this last day of the first week of National Novel Writing Month. For the first time I didn’t reach my daily writing goal by late morning, a habit I knew I’d have to maintain if I were to successfully write 45,000 – 50,000 words during NaNoWriMo.… Read More