At some stage in your writing career, you will step over the line from being a novice and will start thinking like a serious writer. You’ll start dreaming about seeing your book on a shelf with your name in gold lettering and you’ll start researching the markets that might be interested in your work.
Thing [...]

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I’m seeing these letters spring up all over the internet, in the groups I belong to, and on message boards.
November is the month of NaNoWriMo. It’s a time when writers from around the world band together and offer encouragement and support whilst each of them aim for a 50,000 word count in [...]

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Writing is a lonely business. One person sitting in a room on their own, their attention totally focused in their manuscript. The family and friends of that writer often asking why they are wasting their time. It’s sad that those same family and friends couldn’t find it within themselves to be supportive [...]

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Let’s face it, writers abuse themselves. They sit in front of a computer for countless hours. They sit up half the night then can’t sleep because the scenes continue playing in their head. When they fall asleep, they don’t stay asleep for the number of hours that is healthy - instead they [...]

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Writer’s block is an inability to write. It’s when the words refuse to flow but it doesn’t mean the writer doesn’t have ideas. I believe it’s a mental thing, a loss of confidence or direction.
This is what Philip Pullman has to say about it:
I don’t believe in it. All writing is difficult. The [...]

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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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Note: I do not have burnout. This is only information I’m sharing after researching the topic.
What is burnout?
Burnout is a psychological term for the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, usually coming immediately after an extended period of overwork.
Many people can suffer burnout, but I’m only interested (at this stage) with writers [...]

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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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As this topic is something that has been bothering me lately, I thought I should do some research and hopefully find some inspiration and/or encouragement.
Writing Discipline by Michael Bavota has some simple advice that should be common sense but sometimes it does us well to be reminded of these things.

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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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