Blog note: This post is kind of embarrassing. Don’t read it. Especially if you are Colleen Hoover. There are two realities I’ve been living in lately – one of total frustration and impatience, and one of sheer excitement about possibilities. It’s whatever one I’m focusing on that dictates how I live. Right now, I have […]
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If you’re not familiar with Cheryl Strayed, you should be. She’s the face behind the popular advice column “Dear Sugar,” who doesn’t mince words when it comes to giving advice on matters of the heart, life, and everything in between; as well as the author of Tiny Beautiful Things, a novel that holds some of
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Check out more NaNo comic like the one above at nanotoons.net. For as long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to write a book. It’s been my deepest desire, the dream that topped my bucket list. I wanted it so bad that sometimes, when I thought hard enough about it, I could barely breathe. I
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Through my years of writing, I have written a total of three novels. And yet, I’ve only just published my first novel this year. So what was the difference? What made this story easier to clean up and publish than the other two? I knew my characters. Before I even wrote the story, I took
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Since writing and publishing my book, I’ve had numerous people tell me how they have a book inside of them, just screaming to get out. “I think I can write a book,” they say. And you know what? They CAN write a book. YOU can write a book. But it’s not as simple as that.
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“If you’ve FINISHED writing a novel you are amongst the elite!!! You ARE NOT A FAILURE IF YOU CANNOT LIVE OFF YOUR BOOKS. You only fail by NOT TRYING.” – Nadia Cornier I needed to read that quote today. If you’re a struggling author of your own book, I bet you needed to read that
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