You’re wiped out and feel like you could rip out your hair. Yes, you finished the first draft, but now you’ve come to the ginormous task of editing. Do you want to just run away? Today, I want to talk to you about how you can survive the editing process, whether you’re a fiction or […]
Chronic illness. For some, it has been a term haunting them their entire lives, while for others, this new set of words just sent their lives spinning out of control. Writing is hard. Chronic illness is harder. Putting the two together may simply seem impossible. Can writing with a chronic illness work? I have been […]
When I was 13, I had no idea how to be a writer. Well, that’s not quite accurate. I was writing at the time, so technically I was a writer. But I didn’t know how to grow as a writer. I didn’t know where to find motivation. I didn’t have a strategy for success. I […]
First time writers suffer from a big problem (especially young writers). Not all young writers suffer from this problem–and it isn’t just young writers who suffer from this problem either. But many first time writers I know suffer from this and you may also struggle against it. Let me first tell you a story about […]
Many people say you can’t make a living as a writer. Here’s why they’re wrong. Most young writers I talk to want a writing career. Or to put it another way, they want a career built around their writing. But that goal feels… elusive? Unrealistic? Far-fetched? The path forward is murky. The outcome is far […]
