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Binge writing, that is. Especially for a first draft, or for tricky sections where the ideas are slippery, and the only way to grasp them is to write like a demon until your subconscious is persuaded to loosen its grip on your deepest stuff. “Though proportion is the final secret, to espouse it at the …
Thursday Postcard I was in a cheap hotel room. In Outer Mongolia. Six floors up. A few other travelers were there. We were about to go somewhere together. But first, a friendly drink. We knew each other’s first names, but not much else. I was standing at the window, looking out. My beer bottle was …
Here at A Writer’s Roadmap we believe that writing a book is one of the greatest ‘learn by doing’ pursuits you can engage in. Part of its greatness is that to really learn how to write a book, you must complete the project. You can’t go halfway and call it done. The only way out …
Thursday Postcard You can’t make time…can you? *** I’m back in the office after a month away. It was the first vacation in ten years where I haven’t brought work. The break revealed that, in keeping with the spirit of A Writer’s Roadmap, mistakes have been made over the last ten years. This one was …