On Writing: A First Novel
AJ ClairA newsletter about facing all the ups and downs of the first novel writing process -- and other musings on books, careers, writing, dating and overall, the challenges of living a life.
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When Finishing Doesn’t Feel Like Finishing
I thought finishing my book would feel different.
For more than a year, I worked toward this moment: to write a draft from beginning to end. I told myself it didn’t have to be perfect—just finished. A few weeks ago, I wrote the last senten...
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Writing can be a lonely journey
Most of us start out writing in quiet solitude — journaling, scribbling story ideas, or working through morning pages alone. That’s how my writing began, too. And for a while, it worked. But eventually, wr...
Summer Writing Updates
After a few months away, the siren song of Substack has been calling me back. The good news? The break has been writing-related—I’ve been showing up here less because I’ve been writing more. Book writing, to be exact.
On the other hand, I’...
Maybe, This is Something
Something has shifted recently. I’m starting to feel the pulse of this book. How this happened, I’m still trying to figure out myself.
But as I write currently, I can feel it starting to come together.
Some people discuss novel creation...
Tortured Poets Department Writer
I am feeling the marathon-ness of writing a book. Perhaps it’s because I kinda hoped I’d be finished with it by now. At least semi/more finished than I am. Or maybe it’s that I had an opposite experience to writing lately where I felt a Ful...
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Writer, reader, yogi, meditator, sometime New Yorker, other times world traveler, lover of all desserts but especially pistachio ice cream. Currently working on a novel that combines some of these things.
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