It’s not easy to find good beta readers. You probably won’t encounter them in your group of friends, let alone your family. Those people are far too fond of you. Afraid to hurt your feelings, they won’t tell you about the gaping plot hole in the heart of your novel. Instead, they’ll let you publish…
You don’t have to go away for this to work, but it helps. Here’s where I stayed! What is pandemic brain fog? Pandemic brain fog, or as I like to call it, poo brain, has been affecting a lot of us lately. Besides making us zone out and forget things, a bad case of poo…
While not quite on a par with childbirth or interrogation by the Spanish Inquisition, finding your own voice as a writer can nevertheless be an excruciatingly painful process. Because what nobody tells you from the outset is that you suck. All writers suck when they start out. Well, okay, maybe not literary prodigies like Sally Rooney.…
