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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…

4 min readSep 15, 2022

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

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Kim Purcell
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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…

3 min readAug 15, 2022

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

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Kim Purcell

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…

5 min readAug 4, 2022

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

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Kim Purcell

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…

3 min readSep 29, 2021

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Should You Give Up On Your Novel?

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Kim Purcell

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…

6 min readSep 27, 2021

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

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Kim Purcell

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…

2 min readSep 4, 2021

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

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Kim Purcell

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…

4 min readSep 4, 2021

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

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Kim Purcell
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Friends of National Novel Writing Month

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

Think of It Like Smoking or Drinking

5 min readNov 12, 2020

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

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Kim Purcell
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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…

7 min readNov 9, 2020

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

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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…

7 min readMay 3, 2020

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Twenty Fun Ideas for Teaching a Zoom Class

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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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