How to Celebrate Your Writing Wins and Set Yourself Up for a Confident 2025

How to Celebrate Your Writing Wins and Set Yourself Up for a Confident 2025

The 2024 writing season is winding down, and I have a question for you… 
Have you taken a moment to acknowledge everything you did in the last year? 
Have you looked at what you are proud of and really let it sink in—deep into your heart and bones?
If you're like me, I bet you haven't done that yet; maybe it's not even on your radar, but I'm going to invite you (both of us) to make it a priority before the clock strikes twelve on January 1.  

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Why Every Word Matters: Even the Crappy Ones

Why Every Word Matters: Even the Crappy Ones

Encouragement for the frustrated writer.

Writing can be maddening when the words won’t come, or we don’t like what we write. Sometimes, it can feel like a waste of time to plot story events that we can’t see clearly because they’ll probably all change anyway. 

And what about when we write a handful of chapters and realize the story started in the wrong place, or we didn’t quite have our main character’s trajectory as mapped out as we thought, and we need to start over?

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