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Neil Gaiman’s Top 10 Rules for Success

10 Rules for Success As we’ve discussed in previous posts, and here and here, November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Participants try to write 50K words in 30 days. We all need a little writing love during this month, so I’ve brought you a video of Neil Gaiman’s top 10 rules for success. I…

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The dreaded internal editor

I met with someone the other day who brought up an interesting point.  What do you do when you can’t turn off the internal editor?  When she/he is ruining all attempts to get words written? Here’s what I do: Black out your computer screen.  If you can’t see the words, you’ll be less tempted to…

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