Getting Through NaNoWriMo

Today starts off the second half of National Novel WritingMonth. If you’re like me, you are probably thinking a lot about how to make your goals a reality in the next two weeks.

My challenge is writing the volume of words I need to and staying on track with the story. At the moment, I’m about two days behind schedule in terms of word count, but I’m actually much further along in my plot than I should be. But I know for many of you, the concern is with getting to the end.

Last night, I appeared on the YouTube series The CornerBooth to discuss self-doubt and how to overcome it and push past it to complete NaNoWriMo. There were a few things I had hoped to share but due to time and the direction of the conversation I didn’t get the chance so I’m putting them down in this blog.

The Blogging Dilemma

There are thousands upon thousands of writers who are blogging...

“To be a successful writer you need to have a blog.”

This piece of advice comes up alarmingly often in blogs and articles about being a published author. When I was first starting out and looking seriously into building a web presence for my writing, I took it at face value. But as time went by and I learned more, it began to seem like spectacularly bad advice.