Tag: novel writing
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How to Track Your Writing With a Spreadsheet
Happy New Year! It’s resolutions time, and I thought I would share a little bit about what I’m doing to optimize my writing process this month with Google Sheets. I would use Excel but this project doesn’t call for anything fancy. Why a spreadsheet? Can’t you just write a thousand words a day and call…
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World-Building Lessons from Tolkien for Sci-Fi Writers
In sci-fi, an author has to show not only cool applications of science in the future, or alternate history, or whatever branch of sci-fi the author is highlighting, the author needs to paint a picture of the evolution of culture. As the writer, you can look at Tolkien’s painstaking work…
