KARIN SLAUGHTER’S KILLER WRITING TIPS Find an isolated place: a quiet room, the Georgia Mountains, your closet, wherever. Sequester yourself for weeks at a time. Write until you’re exhausted and hallucinating. Sleep for a few hours. Then do it again. Ignore your adorable cats. Sit down at your computer to just start writing already! […]
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Nine things I’ve learned writing a first draft
Nine things I’ve learned writing a first draft 1) Beginning is really hard – It’s always daunting to open up a blank page. It always feels insurmountable to turning nothing into an 85,000-word novel, but just writing 500 words a day makes a first draft in less than six months. I know that the […]
Where do you get your ideas from, Mr. Preston
Where do you get your ideas from, Mr. Preston The most difficult question a writer is asked is this: Where do you get your ideas? It is by and large unanswerable, as the ideas seem to come unbidden and unlooked for out of some dark and mysterious inglenook of the mind. But in the […]