One of the scariest things about being a writer is that you have to create something that inevitably, somebody will misunderstand. This has never been more clear to me than when my husband was beta-reading my books. He can be downright critical about some of the character choices, even after I explain them to him in person. …
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I‘m a stubborn person. That’s not to say that I don’t like to listen to advice. I frequently look into other people’s opinions all the time, because that gives me a lot of ideas and how doing things one way may yield results of a certain nature. But, at the end of the day, I …
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This is written on November 9, because, obviously. Instead of pouring my heart out on social media or checking articles and news, I chose to write a lot. I ended up with about 3100 words before the morning was over. When my husband was little, he liked to draw comics. One day, his father took …
A while back, I posted about how I don’t like “keeping to word counts” because it messes with the quality of my writing. I feel like I should go back and be clear about one thing: I’m talking about forcing myself to write only for the sake of meeting a word count. I do keep to …
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The eternal dilemma of every writer is the nagging self-doubt in the back of your mind: “What if what I have to say has no value to anyone? What if I go down this road and it’s all for nothing?” But for a lot of us, it isn’t a choice now, is it? I’ve tried …
