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How I Finally ‘Won’ NaNoWriMo After Years of Feeling Too Overwhelmed to Start

I’ve wanted to be a fiction writer since I was old enough to hold a pencil. And while I have created tons of content over the years in the form of blog posts, sales copy, and non-fiction ebooks, I have yet to publish a novel. I’d wanted to do National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) for…

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Everything I Learned About Writing Fiction From Reading Brandon Sanderson’s Books

I’ve been in my fantasy book era for the past six months or so, and recently, I discovered The Cosmere — a collection of books and series by the prolific Brandon Sanderson, who is best known for The Mistborn Trilogy and Stormlight Archive series and one of the world’s most successful modern fantasy authors. (His latest Backerkit…