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 […]
I remember typing the last sentence of my first manuscript at 2 a.m. My coffee was cold, and my cat was on my keyboard. I felt proud and thought, “Now what?” For weeks, I wondered how to turn my 60,000 words into a book. Writing was hard, but making a physical book seemed even harder. […]
I remember the night I typed the last sentence of my first manuscript. My fingers hovered over the keyboard, my heart pounded. I hit that final period like I was planting a flag on the moon. I leaned back in my chair and thought, “I did it. I wrote a book.” That rush lasted about […]
