Meg Dowell

How to Show Your YA Readers You Respect Their Intelligence

(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…

While cliffhangers at the end of books tend to annoy and disappoint many readers (either they…

When you’re just starting a new story, emotions and creativity are basically a colorful explosion of…

At the end of last week, I finished writing a book. Believe me, there was a…