Picture this: you’re sitting at your desk, staring at a blank page. A spark of a story idea ignites in your mind, but it feels like trying to catch smoke with your bare hands. Every writer has been there. The thrill of creation can quickly turn into a fog of confusion without a clear path. […]
In 2005, Sara Gruen started writing “Water for Elephants” during National Novel Writing Month. She wrote 50,000 words in 30 days. This rough draft became a bestseller and a movie. Starting to write a book can seem scary. Novels usually have about 100,000 words. That’s a lot of pages. When I first wanted to write […]
