A business associate excitedly tried to sell me on “AI” the other day. I don’t know if she even knew what she meant. As a researcher and writer I have been using things like ChatGPT since they became available. It’s great for creating skeleton outlines or jumpstarting my brain when I can’t think straight. When […]
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Pantsers vs Plotters! And the age-old argument for why we need to plan what we want to write. Flying by the seat of their pants, Pantsers insist that planning stifles their creative flow. Even Stephen King names himself amongst this set. But it begs the question: If you are an experienced writer are you not
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Aaaargh, the dreaded blank page! You glare at it, your mind as blank as the screen. But the words just…won’t…come. Or maybe you have a bunch of half-started writing projects. They look great for a few pages but then both you and they just seem to fizzle out. You’re not alone. As a personal writing
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A horribly small percentage of people who start writing finish their books. It’s something like 3%. And of those 3%, only one in five get to the publishing stage. Most writers know that the initial surge of energy that comes with a great idea can quickly fizzle out, leaving you with a few great pages
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November is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and thousands of would-be authors are hard at work punching away at their keyboards to get their book done by the end-of-month deadline. There’s money in it for some, who might win competitions or get published thereafter. Writing a book in a month sounds like a long shot,
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