I’m not silly enough to assume this is true of all writers, but it’s certainly true of me: I need silence. Not true silence, the absence of noise, though that is also beneficial. What I really need is a sort of mental silence–time in which I don’t have to be thinking too hard about other things,Continue reading “The Importance of Silence and Downtime”
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How Chuck Wendig’s Advice Saved My Book
So, there was this scene. It had some good stuff in it–a line of dialogue I liked, a conversation that needs to happen at some point–but the scene, as a whole? It was awful. The kind of awful one writes when you’re just too tired to be at the keyboard, and you sink into silly wish-fulfillment. ItContinue reading “How Chuck Wendig’s Advice Saved My Book”