Hey everyone, I am incredibly grateful that I get to make my living putting words on the page and making up stories. I’m even more grateful on the days that I wake up bitchy and curmudeonly and have the gall to complain that “it’s too hard.” An eight-hour shift waiting tables is hard. An hour-long […]

Hey everyone, How fast could a fast writer write, if a fast writer could write faster? Tongue-twisting theatrics aside, the question is a relevant one: How fast can a fast writer actually write? To answer that question, we must define what we mean by writing fast. Most writers, on average, can put 1,000 words on […]

Hey everyone, Ever heard of the Don’t-Break-The-Chain method that comedian Jerry Seinfeld used to write every day? Basically, it works like this: You write for a day, mark a big cross on your calendar, then write again the next day, mark another cross, and in this way you soon create a chain in the calendar. […]

Hey everyone, I was introduced to the idea of writing sprints by the prolific Dean Wesley Smith, an author so prolific that I couldn’t help but make him my immediate writing idol. I have to admit, however, that when I first heard about writing sprints, I wasn’t entirely convinced. Write in spurts of 15 minutes […]