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Words Of Discouragement: 34
For when you’re tired of platitudes and want a little attitude.
Words Of Discouragement: 33
For when you’re tired of platitudes and want a little attitude.
Words Of Discouragement: 31
For when you’re tired of platitudes and want a little attitude.
Words Of Discouragement: 32
For when you’re tired of platitudes and want a little attitude.
Words Of Discouragement: 30
For when you’re tired of platitudes and want a little attitude.
How to Speed Write for National Novel Writing Month
November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo for short).
Nearly 500,000 people participate in NaNoWriMo every year. Many are first time novelists who have decided to take the plunge, which means a lot of people are about to realize just how many hours there are in a day.
Here are some ideas to help you churn out a story as fast as possible.
Fortify Your Writing Space
The first thing you’ll to want to do is make sure that your bunker is stocked with nonperishable food items, water purification pellets, and enough Neosporin to cover a month’s worth of paper cuts. This way you can avoid the marauders that will be plundering your home in the wake of the election. Oh and once you’re several stories underground make sure your short wave radio is nowhere near the room where you’ll be writing. All those panic wrought police officers will break your concentration.
Now if you’re one of the poor souls stuck aboveground you’ll need a playlist to drown out all the screams.
I work to dark atmospheric soundtracks. This year I’ve been writing to the scores for Stranger Things, Mr. Robot, and Before the Flood (pretty much anything by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross will get you in the right mood to write horror).
Scores for TV shows are perfect for writing because the composer has left space for dialogue, there’s room to hear yourself think, they’re usually slower than film scores, and there’s no lyrics to steal your attention. Continue reading How to Speed Write for National Novel Writing Month
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For when you’re tired of platitudes and want a little attitude.
Barkley Carver, World’s Most Prolific Hack Writer, Teaches the Craft
Become the Supervisor of Your Own Fiction Factory
Anyone can be an author. It doesn’t matter your age, academic background, or nationality, you have what it takes to write the great American novel.
Forget what you’ve heard. You don’t need to be born to successful writers with roots in New York or Los Angeles, you don’t need a knack for grammar, talent, or luck. You just need to learn the tricks of trade from a master of the craft.
Barkley Carver, pilot, and credited author of 15 books to debut on the New York Times bestsellers list, reveals his winning formula for franchise fiction (for the first time under his current pen name). In this online class, he guides you through every aspect of writing a serviceable novel, from finding cold cases to base your mysteries on to getting New York’s Department of Health to grant you access to the divorce records so you can see which publishers are on the rebound. Continue reading Barkley Carver, World’s Most Prolific Hack Writer, Teaches the Craft
Words Of Discouragement: 28
For when you’re tired of platitudes and want a little attitude.
