Advice to Writers? What if You’re Wrong?

Don’t Tell Me What I Can and Can’t Do

If you’ve been a writer for any length of time, and you’re serious about your craft, you’ve probably come across this bit of misinformation:

”Everybody has a book in them” or, more specifically, a novel.

As a veteran of the NaNoWriMo wars, I’m here to tell you as elegantly as I can, IT JUST AIN’T SO, BUBBA! For those you who don’t know what NaNoWriMo is, you can read all about it here. The basic idea is that you use the month of November to write…