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Why you need a why (or your novel won’t survive November)
It’s 9:40 on a Tuesday night. The dishes are done, the lunches are packed, and your laptop is right there. Your novel is in a folder you haven’t opened since August. You could write for…
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You Finished the Draft. Now What? (The Week Between Drafting and Revising)
You typed “the end.” Then what? For most writers, it’s one of two things. Either you immediately open the document back up and start fixing the first sentence you see — because something feels wrong…
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The Revision Pass Order That Actually Finishes a Book
Most revisions stall for the same reason drafts do: there’s no order to the work, so every read-through turns into fixing whatever catches your eye first. A sentence gets polished before the scene around it…
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How to Plot a Novel When You’re a Pantser Who’s Stuck
Pantsing works right up until it doesn’t, usually somewhere around the middle of the book, when the story you were following stops telling you what happens next. You don’t have to become an outliner to…
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Why Writers Stall Out Mid-Novel (The 5 Real Reasons)
If your novel has stalled somewhere past the opening chapters, it’s rarely about talent, time, or the idea itself. Almost every stuck manuscript is stuck for one of five specific reasons, and once you know…
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5 Things You Need to Do to Finish Your Novel
Ready to get unstuck? Download the free guide and get five specific, doable shifts that quietly keep most novels from ever getting finished, plus exactly what to do instead.