STORYTIME! In the spring of 2025, I wrote a novel – the greatest creative rush I’ve ever experienced in my life. I lived inside that story 24/7. I could hardly sleep because I was so excited all the time. It came after a long spell of writer’s block, and I felt as though I’d stepped…
Author: madrynea
How To Overcome Writer’s Block (When Nothing Else Has Helped)
If you google “how to overcome writer’s block”, you’ll find anything from lectures on performance anxiety to suggestions as cheerful as Light a candle for your next writing session or Just keep writing anyway! Neither are helpful, and some I consider downright harmful. Writer’s block exists for a reason, and it doesn’t need to be…
How I Lost My Hands (And Got Them Back)
In 2011, I participated in Milwordy, a challenge to write 1,000,000 words in a year. For those of you who know NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), that’s about one and a half times the NaNo amount: 2,740 words every single day for the whole year – so, nothing to sneeze at. I came out of…
How To Cheat, Trick and Fuck Over Your Readers
So I visited this seminar on online marketing, mostly because there was a section on e-books and that caught my interest. Within two minutes, I disliked the guy who took the stage – just a gut feeling. But hey, I’m trying to stay non-judgmental here (spoiler: turns out my gut feeling was right). Here are…