September 2024 - A Writer's Roadmap

3 Steps in Any Writing Project

March 17, 2026September 25, 2024 by Pat Dobie

A theory, with a case study (n=1) Here’s a silly situation! I started A Writer’s Roadmap (AWR) in 2019 as a subtitle for what I pictured as a few nonfiction e-books in the how-to genre, specifically how to write and publish a book. I obtained the URL and made a website for it with no real …

Let Your Subconscious Help You Write

March 17, 2026September 10, 2024 by Pat Dobie

I’m sitting in what feels like the dark (my office / flexspace, which is in fact a large closet), still riding a bit of a high from the International 3-Day Novel contest (3DN for short), which ran over the Labour Day weekend. Everyone I know who’s tried the 3DN either does it once and goes, “not …