What Keeps You Motivated While Writing A Novel?

The Snowflake Method? Bourbon? Classical music? TELL US YOUR SECRETS! Congratulations! You've decided to write a novel! unsplash.com You're convinced your idea is pretty genius, you have parts of the plot figured out and now all you have to do is write the thing! NBC So now what? How do people discipline themselves to write every single day? HBO How do you combat the fear...

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The Making Of "The Magicians"

Syfy Lev Grossman’s Magicians trilogy — about a group of young people with magical abilities — has climbed a difficult path to get to viewers. So Sera Gamble and John McNamara, who are bringing the books to Syfy, have been scrupulous in their vision, and a tour of the Vancouver sets reveals their thoughtful precision. The settings created for Brakebills University, the magical...

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I Built A Goddamn Bookshelf With My Bare Hands And You Can Too

Daniel Dalton / BuzzFeed Books are ace. Just like reading on a Kindle, but with a souvenir at the end! The trouble with books is that they multiply. Before you know it, you're an octogenarian hoarder squeezing through tunnels of books and collecting jars of your own piss. This, storage fans, is where shelves come in. By far the easiest and cheapest way to get shelves is to...

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What Percentage Muggle Are You?

Or maybe “YER A WIZARD, HARRY....

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Which Hogwarts House Would You Definitely Not Be In?

“Anything but Slytherin....

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49 Things You Probably Didn't Know About The "Harry Potter" Books

You’re really going to want to read Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-To-Dragon. Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images / BuzzFeed 1. J.K. Rowling abandoned another book that she was writing in order to start working on the Harry Potter series. 2. The series wouldn't exist without Alice Newton, the (then) 8-year-old daughter of the chairman at Bloomsbury Publishing, who read the...

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You Can Personalize Your Own Adult Coloring Book With Your Name On It

Keep calm and color on. The popularity of adult coloring books has never been more evident — they're clearly having ~a moment~. Photo courtesy of Put Me in the Story And now there are even adult coloring books that you can personalize with your own, individual names on them. Photo courtesy of Put Me in the Story Put Me In The Story is a company that sells different kinds...

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