Meg Dowell Writes

starting a book

Three Things Stopping You from Starting Your Book (and How to Handle Them)

“So I have this idea for a book …” A beautiful statement. Unless that’s all it…

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.
It Only Gets Harder From Here

Being a writer actually gets harder the more you do it! But that doesn’t mean you can’t rise to the various resulting challenges.
When the Motivation to Write Is Nowhere to be Found

What many people don’t tell you about motivation is that most of the time, it doesn’t come to you. You have to manifest it.