Meg Dowell

Solution Saturday: I’m Afraid to Let Other People Read My Stuff

You consider yourself a writer. You’ve been writing for a long time, and even though everyone…

Why is writing a book so hard? Because everything has to be significant. Every random thing…

Starting them, working consistently on them, finishing them … no matter your hang-up with long-term projects,…

I knew I was going to regret it. Yet I did not change my mind. Inspiration…

Young adult fiction is known for its big successes: The Hunger Games trilogy, Divergent, The Fault…

I’ve just always been a storyteller. Storybooks and fairytales were never quite enough to satisfy my…

The list of things all aspiring writers SHOULD do always seems to get longer: write often.…

So you’re writing this book, right? It’s going pretty well. There’s a good cast of characters,…

One of the worst things we can do as writers, even worse than not writing at…

As writers, we spend a lot of time stuck in our own projects. That’s why many…