The Takeaway From NaNo 2017

National Novel Writing Month isn’t easy, but it’s worth it. Here are a few things I both learned and re-learned during this year’s challenge. 

Writers Write (Forever and Ever and Ever)

The truth of the matter is that writing has become – or perhaps always been – an industry where working too hard, too much and too often is only the first step to success.

The Fanfiction Question

What’s the big appeal of writing what some consider fiction to fall on the wrong side of the fair use question? Why spend hours – and hours and hours and hours – playing house with another author’s characters? Well, there are many answers to that question.