NaNoWriMo and Beyond — Medium

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8 Hours a Slave: Continuing to Write Despite Working in a Cubicle

Five dead-end jobs into your 20s with nothing to show for it but a scant 401(k) and the will to keep the dream alive.

Black Balloon4 min read

I Refuse.

An obscure writer’s thoughts on obscurity.

Garrett3 min read

The Push To Write

Why you should do NaNoWriMo National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, is an online writing project open to anyone who would like to attempt writing 50,000 words on a new novel during the month of November. (They also offer “camps” in April and July.) For those committed to the win, that works out to writing 1,667 words every day of the month. When talking about the virtues of NaNoWriMo, there are plenty of people that will tell you why you should write a novel and why you should do it in the 30 days of November.

Becky A-S4 min read

Are Publishing Solutions Addressing the Real Problems?

The Difference: One-Way vs. Two-Way Challenges

Snippet App3 min read

How to Get Rid of Tabs or First-Line Indents and Add Spaces Between Paragraphs

I write short stories and my novel with first-line indents and no breaks between paragraphs.

JAVIER SANDOVAL3 min read

The Power of a Timer

A writer’s secret weapon Parkinson’s law is the idea that “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” Or, to put it another way, “the amount of time which one has to preform a task is the amount of time it will take to complete the task.” So, if you give yourself a set amount of time to work on a project, you will use all of that time to get it done, even if you really could have done it in much less time.

Becky A-S3 min read