Novel-writing is a long and arduous process that requires as much discipline and focus as creativity. Poets can have as many bad habits as they like, for their lines are few and short, but us novelists need to keep our bad habits in check, for our lines are numerous. And to do that, we must … Continue reading Bad Habits for a Novelist
I think that the shorter, the better. You will have fewer occasions to commit literary blunders. It might be argued that lengthy novels like Moby Dick, Don Quixote, or War and Peace give us more time to make friends (or enemies) with their protagonists, and thus to remember them after we close the book. But … Continue reading How Long Should A First Novel Be?
If I’d lose all my stories, notes, and ideas from my Documents folder without being able to recover them, I’d be tempted to throw my hat out the window and jump after it... How can documents be lost? Accidental deletion – More likely to occur when you keep your documents disorganized. Document closes before it … Continue reading How to Protect Your Digital Documents
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