Writer’s Life
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Preoccupied with the rewrite of my book, researching about self-publishing, and building my author brand, I nearly forgot the most important part of all this: to keep writing. Really, the consensus, no matter which successful author you ask, is: “Did you just finish that project you’ve been working on for weeks/months/years? Great! Now get back
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I have been writing seriously since I was sixteen. Back then, I was convinced that I was going to become a published author and live the good life like JK Rowling (you know, before…). But then, I was bit by the acting and performing bug . I put my writing aside for the rest of
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Recently, there was a post circling around Reddit written by a man who felt betrayed by his wife for writing a book on her lunch break that earned $100,000. Some have said that this was a fake post, but the number of women who have spoken up on other social media sites, including Reddit, about
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Recently, I have finished a book in two months and am ahead in my word count for NaNoWriMo all while teaching full-time and finishing grad school. Because of this, a question I keep getting from my students and coworkers is “how do you find the time?” Here’s the deal: I don’t have much time for
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Exactly fifty-three days ago, I began a novel based on a single idea that had been swirling around in my head for some time. Currently, this novel sits at 320 pages with 110,000 words. While it is still very much a work in progress (the editing stages have only just begun for the first part
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This August I have been trying to compile all the writing I have done for my novels over the past couple of years. What I thought was going to be simply a matter of copying and pasting has turned into a whole scavenger hunt for my work. In order to access it whenever I want,
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It has been nearly a year since I have posted anything to this blog. With everything that’s happened over the past eighteen months or so and trying to adjust to it has left little room for creative thought. Returning to this blog is not an acknowledgement that things are better now, though in some ways
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What I have discovered about myself recently is that I set goals that are extremely hard to reach. At times, I have even changed goals that are challenging but still obtainable into larger goals that I just can’t quite meet. The problem with this is, even though I have achieved or even surpassed the original
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I have been struggling the past month or so with working through writer’s block. When I was younger, I thought writer’s block was just an excuse people gave themselves for being lazy, but over the past few years, I have had several instances of writer’s block that have taken months and months of productive writing
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