Yearly Archives: 2014

This is the planning part of writing that I love–and, coincidentally, I’m doing right now in preparation to write Book III as a NaNoWriMo book. When I visited Nanowrimo’s official website to sign up, I found the image above in the Nano prep, along with the question, what kind of writer […]

Assuming I’ve convinced you by now that some kind of planning is in order when you write, today I’m going to talk about the boring types of planning. If you do not intend to sell your writing, you can skip ahead to Part 2 of this post, Project Planning. Part […]

All forms of planning begin by defining your ideal outcome. Without this definition clearly stated up front, it is easy to get lost in the details and perils of whatever project you are planning. Writing a book is no different, and yet I don’t think I’m alone among writers, or […]

  The imaginary hordes following this blog will recognize that this post more than resembles the very first post in 101 TIWIK. Why am I blogging about planning again? I want to emphasize planning because of all the mistakes I’ve made in the process of writing my first book, lack […]

This apt cartoon came from The Madman’s Scribbles. Welcome back to 101 Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Wrote My First Book! With Dream of a City of Ruin finally off for the first round of beta reading, I can return to, and hopefully finish, the project I started […]