by Melanie Cossey | Nov 16, 2018 | The Art of Writing Fiction
Recently I had a new writer ask me about first drafts and he mentioned that even with an outline, it was taking him so long just to write the first chapter. Confused, I asked him more about his outline. How developed was it? Had he outlined the full novel? He insisted...
by Melanie Cossey | Sep 17, 2018 | Keystrokes & Coffee News, The Writer's Life
You vow you are going to get up early and write. You grab a quick breakfast, put the coffee on and blinking the sleep out of your eyes, sit down at your computer, put your fingers on the keyboard, open up your project and stare blankly at the screen, waiting for the...
