If you were participating in National Novel Writing Month this year, you’ll probably be within striking distance of your ending today. Near the end of …
| Nov 29 |
#NaNoWriMo 2019: The Thankfulness Thread
Maybe you’ve been participating in National Novel Writing Month. Maybe you already have a writing practice, or you’ve been trying to establish o…
| Nov 28 |
(I was looking at what I wrote last Thanksgiving, as National Novel Writing Month was winding down, and it felt like, with a few minor adjustments, it …
| Nov 27 |
One of my favorite websites right now is Five Books, an Oxford-based publication that interviews experts on all kinds of subjects, who recommend, well,…
| Nov 26 |
Recently, in a previous NaNoWriMo-themed newsletter, I suggested, “Whenever you ‘mess up,’ whenever you have a less than perfect writing day, it’s beca…
| Nov 25 |
I was searching my shelves yesterday when I spotted Geoff Manaugh’s The BLDGBLOG Book, a 2009 extension of his excellent blog, which he’s continued wri…
| Nov 22 |
So, it’s been nearly three weeks of NaNoWriMo-themed content, and at this point I’m curious as to what you, the premium subscribers to “Destroy Your Sa…
| Nov 21 |
Over the weekend, humorist and TV writer Dana Schwartz tweeted this bit of wisdom: “The terrible thing about [publishing a book/getting your dream job/…
| Nov 20 |
I’ve brought up running as a metaphor for our writing practices in a few previous newsletters, so you probably won’t be surprised to hear that this sho…
| Nov 19 |
This may not seem like an inspirational story suitable for National Novel Writing Month, at least not at first. I was a huge science fiction fan as a t…
| Nov 18 |
I wanted to share two quotes I came across recently in my reading. The first is from a conversation with Heather Christle that the novelist Leigh Stein…
| Nov 15 |