Meg Dowell

Three Ways to Stop Stressing About Your NaNo Novel

Since NaNo 2014 began (aka this past Saturday), I’ve accomplished plenty of non-NaNo tasks. I’ve slept (a…

No, you did not misread the title of this post. I’m not only breaking an…

Literary insanity is upon us. National Novel Writing Month is less than a week away. Just…

[Author’s note: I started writing this post, and one sentence in, my laptop shut off and…

WARNING: This post contains spoilers from every decent YA novel you probably should have read…

As a writer, there are no rules. No restrictions. You make your fictional universe what you…

“I can’t come to your birthday party, Steve.” “Why not, Joe?” “Because over the next 30…

So we hear you’re writing a novel. Or thinking about it, at least. The process of…

If writing a novel were easy, everyone could do it. As someone who can’t back away…

Do you like to write? Well, do you? Now I’ll ask you a question with a…