Six Month Novel Scholarship 2024

Six Month Novel Scholarship 2024

Perhaps the hardest part of writing a novel is reaching the end of a first draft, bringing into solid being something that doesn't actually exist yet except as shards of ideas in your mind. Doing it alone with no support, accountability or people to tell you to just have faith and keep going is even harder, and that's what the Six Month Novel...

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Writing a novel alone with no support, accountability or people to tell you to just keep going and have faith makes a really hard job even harder. Your novel doesn't exist yet, and some support along the way to making it a reality can make all the difference. That's what the Six Month Novel is all about. it includes: 4-week intensive plotting...

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Burnout and the importance of rest for writers

Burnout and the importance of rest for writers

We don’t expect trees to produce chestnuts to have a bumper crop every year. Equally, we don’t expect them to bear fruit all year round, just like we don’t expect roses to flower all year.
But we seem to expect ourselves to be able to flourish year round and in any circumstance. To work, to produce, to create to the same standard, to get inspiration and have the energy needed to write.

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Yes! You can do *insert big scary writing dream here*

Yes! You can do *insert big scary writing dream here*

I started running writing retreats in 2008. 2008! There are kids in secondary school who weren't born when I started running retreats. That's mind-blowing. *sobs in grandma* And I've met a lot of writers in 13 years. I've seen people who hadn't even finished a book yet not just finish but go on to get agents, get published, get multiple-book...

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