Meg Dowell

Does a Main Character Always Have to Change for the Better?

What we want to see happen in a story is not always what we need to…

We waste a lot of time trying to ‘find’ the motivation we have somehow apparently lost.

Life throws up roadblocks all the time. We get sick. We get busy. A friend comes…

I know. I have a problem. Trust me, this is not news.

Books do a lot of things. They entertain. They transport. They comfort. They also teach.

You can have a great idea for a story, and not end up writing it -…

Very rarely will you write a first draft and decide it doesn’t need any polishing up…

You can tackle your excuses to the ground and tell them to back off, but on…

But … what if you don’t have an audience? What if you’re doing all this work,…

“I’m going to write a novel!” Great. So how’s that going?