The Benefits of Breaking Rules

By Lynn Goodwin You have to know the rules before you can break them, right? NaNoWriMo’s rules expect you to write 50,000 words of a novel during November. I bent that rule and wrote a 50K free write. After reading Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones and Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, I realized that…

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Crafting Your Motivation

Crafting Your Motivation by J.M. Frey

by J.M. Frey for Monday Motivation Those of you who follow me on social media will know that before I was a professional writer, I was a fanficcer and cosplayer. I’ve spoken at length about how fanfiction made me a better writer overall, and how it’s served as my apprenticeship in writing for the professional…

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