Book (& Craft) Alchemy

Book (& Craft) Alchemy

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Recent discoveries

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Caroline Donahue
Aug 02, 2023
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A woman with a tattoo on her forearm looks at a desk with a green blotting pad covered with colorful notecards and open notebooks with writing inside. She's got a bag of colored pens open.
image: Andrew Putschoegl

The novel charges ahead!

The past month or so, I’ve been using new techniques to hold myself accountable to the novel.

You may recall my sharing a goal to complete a solid draft by the end of August (now this month- eek!) and my using the chat area of my writers’ membership to check in about writing plans and goals on a day-to-day basis.

In fact, I’m running a training called Plan to Page on August 11, and tickets to join are now on sale here, if you’d like to get into the weeds about my planning process.

For the mystery, my planning approach has been working even better than expected. Here are the results:

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