Morgan Hazelwood: Writer In Progress
There are so many ways to do it wrong and no one consensus on how to do it right.
Here are thoughts, from two #Balticon panels, on common mistakes and things to try to get it right.
Biggest take-away: remember, characters should be 3 dimensional, not 2-D.
A #Balticon51 Panel
Learn about rejection from editors, agents, and writers. Both ways to respond when you get that dreaded rejection letter, and ways to recover.
I’ve heard myths of writers who produce amazing works from within a vacuum.
Writing can be very solitary work. You, the keyboard, and the depths of your imagination. It’s easy to feel like you’re locked away from the world — or perhaps escaping from the world — while you craft the story you want to tell.
It doesn’t have to be that way.
For the last two months, you’ve probably noticed a theme in my blog posts: finding momentum.
I’ve been dragging-tail, binge watching TV, my lofty goals have all fallen by the wayside, discarded like empty candy wrappers.
I really wanted to read my novel before starting on copy edits.
I just wanted to be able to make notes where my attention started to wane, so I’d know what might need heavy editing.
Remember when they advised you to ‘show, not tell’. Well, sometimes, it’s really easy to fix.
When Your Rough Draft is Really Rough The Truth About My Rough Draft Friday night, I wrote 3,560 words and … More
Guys, I did a thing! :)
When writing, you know when you’ve hit your target word count for the day or the novel.
What’s hard is knowing when you’ve finished editing a page.
WRITING TIPS & WRITERLY MUSINGS 