Should I do NaNoWriMo?

National Novel Writing Month (most commonly known as NaNoWriMo) starts next week. For those unfamiliar with the idea, it started as a straightforward challenge: During the month of November, complete 50,000 words of a novel. In the past 24 years, it’s grown into a huge community of

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Writers, business plans, and me

The “Publishing Options” series concluded with the third post I did last week, but I wanted to also talk a bit about some of the other business decisions writers have to make. Specifically, about business plans. The vast majority of writers don’t have even an informal business

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Publishing options, Part II

This is the second part of a three-part series on things to consider when deciding how to publish one’s novel. All parts come with a warning: I have next to no personal experience with any form of publishing besides the traditional sort. So read the comments; there

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