Learn | Write About Dragons. I’m Not Scared of My Novel. Thanks to Alex J. Cavanaugh for organizing and hosting the Insecure Writers Support Group every month. Go to his blog to see the other participants, and understand what the group is all about (well, we writers basically get together and support each other through our posts and comments). Here’s my post for the support group: For the last week, I’ve written zero words on my #WIP. Yesterday, I wrote about a 100 words. I know what happens next, so that’s not the issue. Or maybe that’s where the problem lies—I know what my characters are about to do next. A to Z Stories of Life and Death I know I now have to write about the sort of thing that would make me extremely squeamish and horrified in real life– and my way of writing is to be it, be the character and write what comes—and at this point in the novel, I’m terrified to be the character.
And I’ve got confirmation from very good quarters (Anton Chekov, no less) that it is the right thing to do: Wish me luck, people. Like this: Like Loading... The Archives of The Diogenes Club. The Bald Truth About Writing. (WPF) • Index page. Free Poetry Contests: Poets, Poems, Children's Poetry, Teens. JPiC Forum For Writers - Poetry in Color Forum.
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