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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Turning Writing Rejection into Triumph: Talking Middle-Grade Horror Novels with Wendy Parris

Turning Writing Rejection into Triumph: Talking Middle-Grade Horror Novels with Wendy Parris

Imagine…you’re heartbeat away from getting a phone call from your dream agent only you don’t know it and right before that can happen you decide to hang it up, put your story ideas and writing dreams away.

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It’s Never Too Late to Start Writing Your Novel: Tips on Mindset and Story Development From Two Certified Book Coaches

It’s Never Too Late to Start Writing Your Novel: Tips on Mindset and Story Development From Two Certified Book Coaches

Do you ever feel like it’s too late?

Think that maybe you missed the boat heading toward your writing dreams?

Maybe you should have started in your teens, twenties, thirties, fifties, or some other decade before where you are now.

If you said yes to any of that, then episode twelve of the Write It Scared Podcast is where I will prove you wrong. Well, me and my guest, award-winning YA Fantasy Author and Certified Book Coach, Cassie Newell.

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