Some of these are a bit pettier while others are more serious, but I’ve heard a lot of advice in my time, and not all of it is great.
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The worst writing advice I’ve heard
Tag: novel writing
Act 1 May 26, 2021, at three in the morning on a stormy night, lightning struck and I was lying awake in bed. Thunder boomed and my mind was alight with a new story. I had just started writing a Romcom, but this new idea was beyond alluring. It was of adventures and action, love […]
The Golden Heart, the third book I have ever written, is unlike anything else I have ever created. While my process for it has been much the same as it has been in the past, now it feels more streamlined. While there are many, many flaws in this first draft, I am proud of my […]
Originally posted to Instagram on July 11, 2021. Edits for clarity and grammar have been made. What is filtering? Filtering is when you add unnecessary words to your document explicitly telling the reader what the character sees, hears, feels, and thinks. It’s the most obvious in first person POV, but it occurs in third person […]
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Avoiding Writing Burnout
As we near the end of November, many of you will be feeling a little frazzled and burnt out on your projects. But with plenty of time left to go, you need to try and avoid burnout as much as you can. As some background, this past summer I hit some of the worst burnout […]
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2020, Writing, and Me
Do you remember how we all had such high hopes for a year with such a swanky number? This past year was disastrous for many reasons, but it pays no fool to focus on the negative. There were only two obvious things that weren’t terrible for me this year, and one of them was my […]
I think that when I’m older, when I have a better grasp on characters, plot and plot structure, and how to write emotionally charged scenes effectively, I’ll give this another shot.
J.V. Montague 