Meg Dowell

Questions to Ask Yourself Before Giving Up on Your Novel

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?

There still has to be some truth in there somewhere. Something that makes a reader or…

Death by carpel tunnel and too many Google searches in one sitting.