Meg Dowell Writes

000 Words: A Traitor

12,000 Words: A Traitor, a Dying Man, and Graduation Practice

Question: How do you, as the author of your novel-in-progress, maintain control of your setting, characters…

To All the Stories You’ll Never Finish Writing

If we never learn to celebrate our small steps of progress, we won’t ever be able to appreciate our victories — big or small.
Writers: You Can Only Control So Much

There are tons of things we can’t control as writers. Miraculously, this has taught me to be a lot more comfortable with uncertainty.
Questions to Ask Yourself When You Don’t ‘Feel Like’ Writing

Here are a few questions you can ask yourself in these moments you know you should write, but just can’t get yourself to actually do it.