I was making slides for one of my workshops called ‘Novel Dreamers Do’ and made a slide called ‘Recognise your writing journey’ and it’s about all the ways we’ve been apprenticing as writers even before we’re published. What if we recognise that we are writers before we are published? And
The first draft is freedom. Let me rephrase that – writing a first draft of a novel can feel freeing. After all, you are free writing – downloading your ideas out of your mind and turning them into the first words and sentences you can think of and typing those
What if life is a series of thresholds we have to cross? Like, one thing happens, and then another thing happens. Or we make one choice and then another. Things that just happen because, well, life happens. And things that happen because we choose them and then do them and
I finally moved my website from WordPress.com to WordPress.org. The difference between .com and .org is that the site is self-hosted and I can install email optins. Website Design The website got finished thanks to Shannon Mattern who I saw speak at the Rebel Boss Virtual Summit in October
Or what I know now that I wish I knew then (and what I’m still learning) as a writer. 1. Believe Many new writers don’t believe in themselves when they get an idea that they want to be a writer. You have to doggedly hang on to that tiny spark
and I’m a Novel Navigator.
I help you do your novel, trust your journey, overcome self-doubt, and make novel writing a part of your life.
I know the dream of being a novel writer and it’s both scary and exciting to want to write a novel.
Remember, you’re already a writer.
This is your writing journey, and Novel Writing is a path on that journey.