How to Know When to Bail

In a recent interview for the BBC podcast Spark & Fire, the novelist Ann Patchett discusses some of the difficulties that come along with finding success as a writer. "It used to be a novel lived very nicely in my head as a constant companion," she explains. "As time goes on and I now have

​ ​ ​ How to get out of a rut It strikes me that a lot of advice on how to get things done is borderline useless, at least for me personally, because I'm so rarely in the right ...

With NaNoWriMo fast approaching, you’ll be thinking, how on EARTH do I do this for thirty days straight? I’m going to give you some practical tips for motivation. Some will work. Some won’t. Find what works for you.

Time to get back to work

The most productive writers know that writing is only one step in a larger process

The alchemy of gentle productivity - novelist, essayist and writer Anna Vaught shares an approach to keep writing in challenging times.

(And some other resources, too)

I recently had occasion to do some…errr…research on writer’s block. Yeah, research. That’s what I was doing. Like a scientist.