Run it through the calculator above (it will scan your draft and run the numbers). Maybe you’ve poured hours into a description of an environment. Maybe you’ve described a character’s feelings from inside out, yet somehow the scene remain flat. The culprit isn’t necessarily that you haven’t tried hard enough. It’s likely that there was […]

Okay, so you probably didn’t get past Day Three (Chapter A Day). On Day One, you felt heroic. Day Two brought fatigue. Day Three convinced you that writing wasn’t for you. Data entry, yes. What about writing? No. Talent and discipline didn’t fail you here. Arithmetic did. Talent failed you here. Arithmetic failed you. Writers […]

There’s something relieving about breaking a writing streak. There’s something wonderful about knowing that for days you’ve been waiting to make up your mind, and then finally, you do. And on the day you don’t write, you tell yourself: I’ll do it tomorrow. By the third day, discipline has begun to slip away. It becomes […]

Don’t mistake writing speed for a character flaw. When you’re not cranking out pages, you’ll think something went wrong with your brain. Your discipline dissapears. But that’s not true. Writing fast isn’t an indicator of talent. It’s an indicator of friction. Plug some numbers into the page and see how math works out. Don’t confuse […]