Tag: creative writing

Here are six critical lessons that I learned from National Novel Writing Month in 2016. National Novel Writing Month can be a crazy cool, challenging, and rewarding experience. Leading up to this year’s event I knew that success was dependent on how well I prepared. I’m not a “by-the-seat-of-my-pants” kind of writer. I need structure. So, I took the month of October to brainstorm. I explored old story ideas and browsed through my sketchbooks looking for inspiration. Come the first of November I was ready to dive in. In the process of NaNoWriMo 2016, I learned quite a lot… Continue reading My Most Challenging And Rewarding Month as a Writer