On Writing

On Twitter and Facebook, I promised to answer a writing question before I left for Australia today, and asked what that question should be.  So many of the questions that came in were ones that I'd already tackled that I realized what I needed to do was not answer another question, but organize the stuff I'd already blogged about. When I started to organize the blog posts, I realized . . . I talk about writing a lot.





WRITING



How to Write a Novel



Seven Steps to Starting a Novel



Novels, on Starting Them



How I Prep for Writing a Novel



How Many Words/ Pages Should my Book Be? also Making your book longer than 30 pages



Staying Focused on One Project



Rough drafting



Writer's Block



On treating readers badly





CHARACTERS



Knowing Your Characters



Purposeful Characterization



Why Normal People Can't Be Characters



On Stylizing Characters



On Harming Characters





AFTER THE NOVEL: REVISING



Revision, Part 1



Revision, Part 2



Revision, Part 3



Questions on Revision



Revising for Mood



Death to Line Editing



Finding a critique partner





AFTER THE NOVEL: QUERYING



Courageous Querying



10 Rules for Query Letters





INSPIRATION



Being a writer, but also being something else



Books that feed me



Reading as inspiration



On Writerly Confidence:



On Writerly Angst



More on being a writer







MISCELLANEOUS





Writing for your audience



My early terrible writing



Miscellaneous Writing Questions