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There’s a big contest coming up, and against all odds, your monstrous protagonist – be it a mummy, vampire, zombie, witch, or something equally spooktacular – is desperate to enter. What kind of contest is it? What will your protagonist need to overcome to enter? And finally: Do you think they’ll win?
Feeling overwrought by a lack of writing time? Finding time to write is about figuring out what works best for you & your passion.
“E.L. Doctorow said once said that ‘Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.’ You don’t have to see where you’re going, you don’t have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.”
What I learned from veteran writers at a panel on essays.
