The Blog
Writing craft, product updates, and thoughts on the creative process.
The blank page is a liar. It promises you total freedom but often delivers a dead-end by Chapter 4. In this first Loom breakdown, I dive into why writing 'by the seat of your pants' almost cost me my first book and how I transitioned to a high-utility outlining workflow in Quill Loop. If you’ve ever had to delete an entire chapter because you lost the thread, this one is for you.
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Build a daily writing routine that actually sticks by rewarding your bad days with just one word.
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Hey there! Welcome to Quill Loop, or as I like to call it the thing I wrote so I could avoid writing my own book! Quill loop started as a passion project, I wanted a piece of softw...
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AI can predict the next word. It cannot predict the next feeling. That's the whole story.
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Quill Loop is equal parts passion project and procrastination project, and it would almost certainly not exist if I hadn't tried to write a novel.When I started my manuscript the w...
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We get it. You've got Google Docs, Microsoft Word, and Scrivener. The world needs another word processor about as much as it needs a hole in the head.But here is the thing: Quill L...
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There is no way around it: writing has changed over the last few years, and one major driver is causing that change - AI.AI has, for better or worse, changed the very fabric of the...
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When a lot of writers start their first novel, they assume the process is pretty simple: you open your text editor of choice, type out "In the beginning..." (or some variant), hamm...
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Picture this: You are deep in Chapter 2. The monsters are coming out of the cave, the terrified villagers are watching from the background, waiting to see what will happen, hoping...
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Don't lie. You and I both know you're guilty of this.You say you'll sit down to write as soon as the muse strikes. But when you finally sit at your desk, you suddenly realize you d...
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