novel writing
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Podcast Ep. #16: Setting Sustainable Goals
As I start to write this episode, I’m sitting in a coffee shop at the end of a truly exhausting week of adulting. There are plenty of valid reasons why I could not be writing anything right now, but I’m crazy (and mercifully caffeinated), so here we are. I want to talk about setting sustainable… Continue reading
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Podcast Ep. #14: How to Fail at Writing a Novel, Part VI
Welcome to my last episode on novel writing fails! Finally! We reached the end of this angsty saga (kind of, I’m still working on my first novel). But yes, my first novel that I am currently revising. I’m writing the second draft, not the first. Yay! How did I reach this point? What mystical magic… Continue reading
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Podcast Ep. #13: How to Fail at Writing a Novel, Part V
Today is the fifth episode in my series on novel writing fails. Last week, I talked about a vampire story and a college rom-com that I worked on at the start of 2020. This week I will be talking about a grim reaper story I first had the idea for at the end of 2020… Continue reading
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Podcast Ep. #12: How to Fail at Writing a Novel, Part IV
Welcome! Today is the fourth episode in my series on novel writing fails. My third, fourth, fifth, and sixth attempts all began in 2020. I had taken three years off from writing original material at that point and had been writing pretty much exclusively fanfic except for the occasional song or poem. But finally my… Continue reading
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Podcast Ep. #11: How to Fail at Writing a Novel, Part III
Today is the third episode of my series on novel-writing fails. In this episode, I will still be talking about my second novel attempt because during the last episode, I only addressed the reasons behind why I wrote it. Now let’s talk about what I actually wrote. There were some big picture issues with the… Continue reading
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Podcast Ep. #10: How to Fail at Writing a Novel, Part II
Today is the second episode of my series on novel-writing fails. And I’m going to go ahead and give a trigger warning for this episode. I will talk a fair bit about mental illness because it relates to my personal story: specifically, schizophrenia, anorexia, binge-eating, and the hospitalization thereof. If you need to skip over… Continue reading