Meg Dowell Writes

How to Write a Book If You’re Bad at Long-Term Projects

How to Write a Book If You’re Bad at Long-Term Projects

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

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.