Meg Dowell

The Most Difficult Things Writers Have to Explain to Non-Writers, Part 1

“Where do you get all your ideas?” Anyone else ever been asked this question? Of course…

Week Two is quickly coming to a close, and something’s not quite right. Your word count.…

When I first started writing my previous book (different than the one I’m working on during…

(For the purpose of this post, if you don’t have any readers yet, imagine you have…

Whether you’ve written novels outside of NaNoWriMo before or NaNo is your first novel-writing experience, it’s…

What does it take to write a book? Creativity. Perseverance. A healthy dose of stubbornness and…

Starting to plan out a new novel is sort of like sitting down to plan a…

It’s not so bad, being a perfectionist. It makes editing a lot easier (which is good,…

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who will encourage you to chase…

In my newsletter this week I wrote a little about beginnings (T-Swift lyrics may have been…