How do you keep the effort going when you don’t have the extrinsic motivation of a daily email or a monthlong challenge?
My secret? Slow and steady wins the race. In this post, I offer up 4 tips to creating your own disciplined, sustainable writing.
Read MoreHave you ever read through your novel, noticed a continuity error, and then realized that—oh no!—when you took a few months away from the project, you picked back up with the continuity error, which then avalanched into a major (and factually inaccurate) plot point, and now you have to overhaul what you thought was a completed novel?
Ahh!
Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen again.
Read MoreHint: This is a trick question.
Read MoreA SMART goal is the difference between saying, “I’d really love to write a novel” and saying, “By June 30 of this year, I’ll have the first draft of my 70,000-word novel written.”
But how will you achieve your goal? You still need a plan to get those 70,000 words onto paper, right? And what if your initial plan for achieving that goal doesn’t work?
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence is doing some pretty impressive things right now, but there are very few programs that currently meet the expectations we have for a human editor.
Though many writers have sophisticated word processors, they may still make egregious spelling errors and grammatical mistakes, while overseen by the software. Moreover, these programs can’t yet catch continuity or fact-check errors on their own.
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