Recent content by Bvboozell

Yeah, they can be really helpful but also insanely distracting. I remember I once went on a binge a few years back and probably took some of their advice a little too seriously. Take what they say with a grain of salt. Sometimes what doesn't work for another writer may well work out for you.

I recently went from writing a novel in three months to not being able to writing anything at all for four. I'm just now getting back into it, and it's coming slowly. Sometimes you just have to force yourself to write something, even if it's anything at all, or you'll be waiting for inspiration...

I use Pacemaker to track my writing now. It's similar to NaNo in that you get the stats in graph form, and you can also see what percentage you've got left along the way. You can customize the plan for shorter amounts of writing and a yearly word count as well if I remember correctly. It's also...

I love writing poetry (Helps with my depression). I've also thought about trying my hand at a novel in verse later on down the road; I even have the beginning possibly worked out when I decide to play with it, but for right now I'm sticking with a more structured novel.

I'm in the same boat right now. Wrote an 80,000-word fantasy novel that drew comments from multiple agents about loving the writing and the world but believing I was holding myself back from the darkness of the characters and the plot because of it being YA. It was suggested that I might want to...