5 Tips for Finishing up Your Writing Year
The year is rapidly heading toward its close and usually this is a good time to take stock of what we've accomplished in the last year and look forward to what we want to get done in the coming year. I have to admit it has been a busy year for me teaching writing classes, presenting workshops and working on two new non-fiction books, one of which will be ready to be published this month. In addition I have been editing my fiction books so another can be published next year as well as writing blogs regularly, including our new Novel Concepts fiction blog which has presented two new fiction short stories. But it is also a good time to look forward and that means looking at what you need to do to be ready for the new year. Here are some quick and easy ideas to help you get ready for your writing in the new year and get you off to a fast start in 2018: 1. Look for old stories that you can polish. Is there something you might have written in the past that just needs editing befo