The Next Novel
On using a character's birth chart as a writing constraint
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I’m writing and reading every day, but barely, because I am also unpacking and settling, and that’s okay. Two pages of Magda Szabó’s The Door before…
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My writing goals for 2022
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I know what the novel needs next, which is for me to go back to my old Scrivener file and untangle all the pieces, but it won’t happen until January. We…
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This week I had the same epiphany I apparently had in March, but it still feels like progress.
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Returning to an old short story to unlock something in the novel
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Are you a writer, too?TNN’s first discussion thread! Tell me — are you a writer, too? What are you working on, and where can people find you online if they want to le…
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Once, in Vermont, I went on a run on a wooded path that I was certain, having looked at it on a map ahead of time, was shaped like an oval and roughly a…
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