by Jonas Frid | Nov 1, 2020 | advice, beta readers, nanowrimo
It’s that month of the year again. To “normal people”, it’s just November. But to anyone with a writing dream, it’s National Novel Writing Month. Hundreds of thousands of writers around the world spur each other to finish a novel draft in 30 days. Is that actually...
by Jonas Frid | May 11, 2020 | advice, authors, beta readers
Writing a novel is a marathon that you have to run over and over again. An endless array of drafts and rewrites. It can be exhausting even for the most persistent of us. The good news? You don’t have to run it alone. Or, you do have to do the running, but with a...
by Jonas Frid | Mar 6, 2020 | advice, writing
Sharing your manuscript with others can be menacing. If you ask for feedback, feedback is what you will get, and even if it would be nice to hear that your writing is perfect, you are more likely to get suggestions on what to improve. This can hurt your ego, but when...
by Jonas Frid | May 22, 2019 | advice, getting published, self publishing
I get many questions from aspiring authors about what to do once they’re through that first, long stretch of word crunching and hold the first complete version of their manuscript in their hands. This post covers my usual recommendation. (Spoiler: Don’t...
