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062 - What it takes to finish a novel with Cat Lumb

062 - What it takes to finish a novel with Cat Lumb

Released Thursday, 13th May 2021
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062 - What it takes to finish a novel with Cat Lumb

062 - What it takes to finish a novel with Cat Lumb

062 - What it takes to finish a novel with Cat Lumb

062 - What it takes to finish a novel with Cat Lumb

Thursday, 13th May 2021
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Cat Lumb has been writing stories for over a decade: since she was diagnosed with two chronic conditions and was forced to rest more, meaning her imagination was often her only escape. Her first love is novels, and she has eight manuscripts in various stages of completeness, but also enjoys the ease of short stories for a quick fiction fix. 

Cat starts by talking me through how she became a writer and book coach. She is a prolific short Story Writer and I asked her about her method for coming up with ideas . She shares with me the what if tree as a great way to develop a plot line . And she recommends using newspaper headlines as a way of coming up with an idea. What is the Story behind the headline , or rather what is your Story behind the headline?

She gives advice for submitting your short stories to magazines and periodicals and the importance of knowing the themes in your work full stop when you understand the themes in your stories you can target your work too particular competitions and magazines. Cat also recommend the small press guide, published by mslexia as a great way to find upcoming competitions.

Cat then goes on to explain her process for writing longer form novels, and this includes using nanowrimo as a jump off point. 

We talked to about writing blocks and where they come from. Often those blocks are not to do with your writing, but what's going on in other areas of your life.

Cat runs the Write Catalyst, a coaching community. She coaches her clients one to one as well as in small groups. She hosts monthly webinars covering all elements of the writing life and in her Facebook group "The Write Catalyst", she goes live every Tuesday sharing her top tip Tuesday.

One of her mantra's is “you can do this”. Often self belief is one of the biggest stumbling blocks her clients have . And a lot of her job as a book coach is to guide her clients through their limiting beliefs 

“If it’s important to you, it's important.”

We talk about what it takes to finish a novel and again it comes down to self belief and not comparing your first draft to the finished product of another author on the shelf. 



Connect with Cat:

Website www.catlumb.com 

Twitter (19) Cat Lumb (@Cat_Lumb) / Twitter

Facebook (9) The Write Catalyst | Facebook

The Memorial Tree https://amzn.to/3mXiPUE


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