Holiday downtime can prove enormously productive for writers—especially those who begin to focus on writing projects they might want to take on in the New Year. In this guest post, book editor C.K. Bush (@theladyck) provides tips on how to use that downtime to brainstorm and evaluate new writing projects. The end of the year is a great time to…
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A Beginners Guide to Freewriting
If your inner critic regularly stops your attempts to write, it’s time to get the upper hand. Today Emmanuel Nataf (@EmmanuelNataf), co-founder of Reedsy, provides the basic steps to get your writing flowing by using a tried-and-true technique that keeps the critic at bay. Your greatest enemy and critic when writing is often yourself. While there are countless articles and…
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How to Write Daily During December
The end of the year can feel like an impossible time to write daily. There’s holiday shopping and cooking to do, parties to attend, and, for some people, travel plans to complete. Your regular writing schedule seems to get disrupted entirely from Thanksgiving until the first week of January. Many writers participate in 30-day writing challenges in November. If you…
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How to Write Even When Life Gets in the Way
You set a goal—write a book in 30 days. And you’ve been writing every day, cranking out the words and moving toward meeting your deadline. And then…life happens. Your kids (or you) get sick. Someone close to you dies. A natural disaster occurs. The basement floods. Your boss throws a new project at you that is due ASAP. Your car…
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10 Productivity Hacks to Help You Complete a First Draft in 30 Days
You’re in the homestretch… Less than two weeks left to complete your Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN) Challenge project. But you’re slowing down. Maybe the pressure, late writing nights, early writing mornings, or overwhelm have made consistent writing seem less than doable. You know you must increase your productivity—and fast!—if you want to finish your book in 30 days. That…
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