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Five Tips for Busy People Who Want to Write a Novel During #NaNoWriMo

We’ve all heard that if you want to get something done, get a busy person to do it. Maybe your to-do list is really long, but you want to…

Sep 15, 2022

Five Tips for Busy People Who Want to Write a Novel During #NaNoWriMo

Sep 15, 2022

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The kids are going to back to school and you want to finish your novel. But how?

We’ve all been there. You’ve taken a chunk of time off of writing your novel this summer to spend time with the kids and now you have no…

Aug 15, 2022

The kids are going to back to school and you want to finish your novel. But how?

Aug 15, 2022

8 Things Kids and Teens Learn When They Write a Novel (Besides Writing)

As a young adult novelist and novel-writing teacher, I believe kids and teens should be encouraged to write and finish novels, and no, it’s…

Aug 4, 2022

8 Things Kids and Teens Learn When They Write a Novel (Besides Writing)

Aug 4, 2022

Should You Give Up On Your Novel?

Maybe you’ve been writing a draft of a novel for the last three years and it’s still not sounding like Falkner or Atwood or, well, any…

Sep 29, 2021

Should You Give Up On Your Novel?

Sep 29, 2021

18 Time-Saving Tips For Messy, Scattered, Disorganized, Creative Parents

Maybe you’re like me: a creative who would much rather dive into their imagination than clean the damn house. Like many creatives, I have…

Sep 27, 2021

18 Time-Saving Tips For Messy, Scattered, Disorganized, Creative Parents

Sep 27, 2021

Side Writing: The Key to Finishing Your Novel While Raising Kids

It’s easy for life, children and work carry you away from your writing like a runaway horse. Pretty soon, it’s been a few days or a week…

Sep 4, 2021

Side Writing: The Key to Finishing Your Novel While Raising Kids

Sep 4, 2021

How can parents write a novel in a pandemic (without going mad)?

Even in the best of times, parents worry they’ll never have the time or bandwidth to write a novel. Now they might be thinking this dream…

Sep 4, 2021

How can parents write a novel in a pandemic (without going mad)?

Sep 4, 2021

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How To Develop a Writing Habit (And Jump on The Writing Train)

Think of It Like Smoking or Drinking

Nov 12, 2020

How To Develop a Writing Habit (And Jump on The Writing Train)

Nov 12, 2020

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“You’re Pregnant? You’ll Never Be a Writer Now.”

When I was six months pregnant with my first child, I was accepted into a writing class taught by a famous novelist in his home in Los…

Nov 9, 2020

“You’re Pregnant? You’ll Never Be a Writer Now.”

Nov 9, 2020

Twenty Fun Ideas for Teaching a Zoom Class

Do you want to laugh your head off while teaching? Do you want engaged students who aren’t going on their phones? Let’s all have fun with…

May 3, 2020

Twenty Fun Ideas for Teaching a Zoom Class

May 3, 2020

I Was So Jealous of My Friend’s Writing Success…

Have you ever read a book and thought I can do better than this?? Or maybe a friend got published and you thought her book sucks and how…

Mar 6, 2020

I Was So Jealous of My Friend’s Writing Success…

Mar 6, 2020

V Day is Vagina Day

Happy V Day to all the females out there. (V means Vagina for our purposes today.) This post is specifically for about our vaginas and…

Feb 14, 2020

V Day is Vagina Day

Feb 14, 2020

To Mom Writers: How to Keep Writing Over the Holidays

The holidays can be tricky for us writer moms. Let’s face it, every time a mom goes for her creative dreams, it is an act of defiance…

Dec 18, 2019

Dec 18, 2019

NaNoWriMo

It’s Day One of NaNoWriMo. I am actually doing it this year, not just writing about it, but for real, doing it. At the end of the month, I…

Nov 1, 2019

NaNoWriMo

Nov 1, 2019

Five Ways to Encourage a Budding Kid Writer (And Five Things To Avoid)

Today a friend contacted me and said, “My daughter is in love with books and writing. How can I encourage my budding writer?”

Oct 20, 2019

Five Ways to Encourage a Budding Kid Writer (And Five Things To Avoid)

Oct 20, 2019

5 Steps To Prep Yourself Before #NANOWRIMO

Eep! It’s nearly National Novel Writing Month. I told myself I’d do it this year, and I’d blog about the process. First, should I get a…

Oct 14, 2019

5 Steps To Prep Yourself Before #NANOWRIMO

Oct 14, 2019

Writing with Your Kids

One of my favorite things to do with my girls is to go on a writing date with them. They don’t get much creative writing time in school and…

Oct 14, 2019

Writing with Your Kids

Oct 14, 2019

So you’re an author and you’re going to do a school visit? No problem, right?

I hear your scream of terror from my desk.

Oct 8, 2019

So you’re an author and you’re going to do a school visit? No problem, right?

Oct 8, 2019

The Mom Writer

I was six months pregnant with my first daughter when I started a novel-writing workshop at the home of a famous LA novelist, a male, who…

Oct 3, 2019

The Mom Writer

Oct 3, 2019

An Open Letter to My Daughters on the Day After the 2016 Presidential Election:

To my brave, smart, imaginative and kind girls,

Nov 10, 2016

Nov 10, 2016

Kim Purcell

Kim Purcell

Author of TRAFFICKED (Penguin, 2012) and THIS IS NOT A LOVE LETTER (Disney-Hyperion, 2018), novel-writing teacher for kids, teens and parents. kimpurcell.com

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