On Twitter and Facebook, I promised to answer a writing question before I left for Australia today, and asked what that question should be. So many of the questions that came in were ones that I'd already tackled that I realized what I needed to do was not answer another question, but organize the stuff I'd already blogged about. When I started to organize the blog posts, I realized . . . I talk about writing a lot.
WRITING
How to Write a Novel
Seven Steps to Starting a Novel
Novels, on Starting Them
How I Prep for Writing a Novel
How Many Words/ Pages Should my Book Be? also Making your book longer than 30 pages
Staying Focused on One Project
Rough drafting
Writer's Block
On treating readers badly
CHARACTERS
Knowing Your Characters
Purposeful Characterization
Why Normal People Can't Be Characters
On Stylizing Characters
On Harming Characters
AFTER THE NOVEL: REVISING
Revision, Part 1
Revision, Part 2
Revision, Part 3
Questions on Revision
Revising for Mood
Death to Line Editing
Finding a critique partner
AFTER THE NOVEL: QUERYING
Courageous Querying
10 Rules for Query Letters
INSPIRATION
Being a writer, but also being something else
Books that feed me
Reading as inspiration
On Writerly Confidence:
On Writerly Angst
More on being a writer
MISCELLANEOUS
Writing for your audience
My early terrible writing
Miscellaneous Writing Questions
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