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A short and mostly accurate guide to mental health for writers

"Whether it’s medication or meditation, as your needs demand, get the support you need."

Let's get out of here

Why is the book set somewhere else? Have an answer for that and your journey has begun.

A moral dilemma

"The only way I would know was to ask the very people I wanted to base my novel on."

Imagining the Past: the Purpose and Pitfalls of Research

"Far from helping me to enrich my novel, research was stopping me from writing a good one."

Who are your characters?

Do you actually know your characters, or are they yet to emerge?

It's not about the desk

There are benefits to be found in removing the notion that writing requires writing space, and in writing fiction around ongoing human life.

Gonna get myself connected

Writers dig alone time. It’s our bread and butter. It gives us time to write, to think, to observe, to read…to walk around in our pants.

How to find creative inspiration when you're bang out of ideas

'Writing about a writer’s block is better than not writing at all.' - Charles Bukowski.

How to get to the end of a first draft

"Tell your new idea you appreciate it but explain firmly and kindly that you are busy right now and will get to it when you are done wi

Fall in love with writing and the results will follow...

'The start of your writer’s journey is not the time for limitations; it’s the time for possibility.'

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