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How One Writer Got Paid to Develop a Novel

Posted on August 21, 2014 by in Fund Your Passion Project Series, How to Write, Mei Li

To get answers for the Fund Your Passion Project series, I turned to Shruti Swamy. Her passion project? A fiction novel exploring themes of blindness. And as the 2012 W.K. Rose Fellow, she got paid $50,000 to work on it. Here, she spills on the habits that got her living her dream. MY WRITING REGIMEN […]

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Battling Your Limiting Beliefs

Battling Your Limiting Beliefs

Posted on August 7, 2014 by in How to Write, Mei Li

Fiction writer Yuri Tanaka* thinks she’s nearing the end of her novel. When she’s busy being mom to her two kids or working part-time to support her family, she’s slaved away at this novel. Yet its completion actually worries more than thrills her. “I think I’m actually afraid of finishing my novel,” she says. “When […]

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Four Ways to Bulk Up Those Writing Muscles

Posted on July 28, 2014 by in How to Write, Mei Li

Day one of returning to my novel after a three-week hiatus. I can’t wait. No excuses. Novel-writing is ON. This is how the day goes. 8:30 a.m. Hit the snooze button one last time. 9:00 a.m. Ooh, breakfast time. 10:00 a.m. Sign up for dubious offer in email inbox. 10:15 a.m. See that friends got published. Have to give […]

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How To Fund Your Passion Project Series

Introducing: The Fund Your Passion Project Series

Posted on July 14, 2014 by in Fund Your Passion Project Series, Mei Li

Anyone else take the road less traveled by… and then run out of gas money? I quit my steady if not lucrative job to go back to school at the ripe old age of 38. I sat through classes with twenty-year-olds. I realized with age comes not so much wisdom as way slower brain processing speeds […]

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