The Novel Startup | Ben Werdmuller | Substack

Reader, I stalled. I got some great advice from a published author and literary expert over Christmas which changed the trajectory of my story. This is a good thing: feedback is always a gift. But in the midst of end-of-year holidays, an ongoing move that is taking forever, and a…

Jan 21

I’m at the point in my plotting where I’m considering who my characters are. What are their hopes and dreams? What motivates them? How do they sit…

Nov 20, 2022

When I was nine or ten, I would wake up early before school and draw comics. At that time of the morning, our family’s apartment was all mine: a quiet…

Nov 5, 2022

Thinking of a novel as a product

Oct 30, 2022

Moving from writing code to words.

Oct 27, 2022

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