News from Dead Darlings
The dog days of summer are upon us. It’s time to eat a little, think a little, read a little, and write a little. Dead Darlings can help with it all.
Eat
Belle Brett in I’ll Have What She’s Having: The Role of Food as a Writing Enhancer discusses the many ways you can use food to enhance your novel.
Think
Take Jack Ferris’s quiz in Is Your Novel Ready for the Great Digital Revolution to determine if your book is ready for all things digital.
Read
Ah, those ever important stakes in a novel. Marc Foster in Here’s the Beef on Stakes breaks it down, providing insight into a very basic issue in some works of fiction.
Write
Just can’t get that novel completed? Kelly Robertson in Project Manage Your Novel to Done gives you some tips on how to get it done.

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Dead Darlings is devoted to celebrating the novel, from the process of creation through revision, promotion and publication. The authors, alumni from GrubStreet Boston’s Novel Incubator, have gathered to provide support for all novelists: aspiring, developing or successful. Writing is best when it has the support of a community, when novelists share their experiences.
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