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...

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....
Burnout and the importance of rest for writers

Burnout and the importance of rest for writers

Every few years some species of trees will generate bumper crops of seeds. It’s known as a mast year, and last year I spent a day in an ankle-deep carpet of spiky green cases picking glossy sweet chestnuts from them and trying (unsuccessfully, I’m sad to...
Win a scholarship for the Six Month Novel

Win a scholarship for the Six Month Novel

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...