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Why You Should Always Publish Your Work

Posted on April 22, 2022April 23, 2022 by Andrea

Even When You Don’t Think It’s Good Enough I’m a wuss. There, I said it. I don’t publish nearly as much as I write. I suffer from imposter syndrome and publisher block. Nobody is going to want to read my stuff, I tell myself. Who do I even think I am, anyway? Right? Wrong! If you want…

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Emotional Gold

Posted on February 11, 2021April 5, 2022 by Andrea

How to mine your emotions to fuel your writing “The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.” ― John Champlin Gardner Jr., The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers My husband is a very vocal person. I suppose growing up alone can produce different outcomes….

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The Writing Obsession

Posted on February 7, 2021April 5, 2022 by Andrea

Why you should sometimes take a break from writing and how to go about it It is my goal to be an accomplished writer. I use this word deliberately: accomplished. To me it says two things: Skilled Recognized I tend to steer clear of the word “success” because to me it has become tainted. It is…

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5 Excuses Not to Write

Posted on December 17, 2019April 4, 2022 by Andrea

Why would you want to be a writer anyway? “A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it” ― Roald Dahl Right after my Medium Milestone — my first 500 followers…

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The 500

Posted on December 8, 2019April 4, 2022 by Andrea

What my first 500 Medium followers mean to me “I am I: and I must follow that furrow, not copy another. That is the only justification for my writing, living.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary When I first — tentatively — started writing on Medium, I could not believe my good fortune when I…

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I am failing NaNoWriMo

Posted on November 25, 2019April 4, 2022 by Andrea

And why that is OK I had made my plans. Found my resolve. My abandoned fantasy novel well and truly on my mind at the start of this month. I was ready to go NaNoWriMo. And then I didn’t. Still a week to November 2019 and I haven’t written a word of my novel. There’s…

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  • Why You Should Always Publish Your WorkApril 22, 2022
    Even When You Don’t Think It’s Good Enough I’m a wuss. There, I said it. I don’t publish nearly as much as I write. I...
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    A Dream There’s a Mothman in my room, over by the window. I think I must be dreaming. He’s just standing there, a large dark...
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    Letting Go of Your Mother “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.” ― Oscar Wilde, The...

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