I saw this on the NSW Uni site when I was looking for time management tips and wanted to share it.
If you have ‘writer’s block’, try writing something-anything-down. Even if you change it completely later, at least you’ve started. The alternative is having nothing at all.

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As I haven’t had the pleasure of experiencing this yet, I turned to Australian author, Sara Douglass, to find out about The Editorial Process.
Reading the procedure brings up a few emotions–excitement and fear being among them. Why the fear? Simply put, can I handle the pressure? Can I meet the deadlines, and [...]

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This is something I just wrote in an email to a friend.
Some writers dream about it…while others do it.
What is meant by this statement is that a lot of people dream about writing, think about writing and plan what they are going to write, but they never actually write. And they never finish a [...]

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I believe that although having your family and friends read your work could sometimes be useful, most of the time it’s not. As a writer we need constructive criticism and our family and friends are not usually able to give it.
This isn’t always true, of course, and if you have someone close to you who [...]

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This is an issue that haunts most aspiring writers. Most word processors are equipped with a word count feature, but this is NOT the way to do it. Even though using this feature will give you the actual word count used, the printing industry works it out differently.
If you look at any two pages in [...]

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Writing the Perfect Scene - When I read this it made perfect sense to me. A light went on in my head - “this is something I’m doing wrong”.
I will learn to write using the Motivation Reaction Units within my Scenes and Sequals.
Motivation is what the character sees, hears, smells, tastes, and [...]

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Randy Ingermanson Talks About Writing but more importantly he explains a not so complicated method of writing a novel using The Snowflake Process.
I’ve heard about this before and have been to his site before but it was only tonight that I took the time to read his words. I think all writers grow as time [...]

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