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Stop listening to people telling you you can’t

by | Jul 22, 2021 | Writing

My whole life everyone has told me I can write on the side of whatever it is I do to make real money. They’ve said I’ll hate writing if it ever turns into a job. That I belong in science. Or medicine. Or whatever dead-end desk job I can get so long as I’m bringing...

How to get yourself to do The Work

by | Jul 21, 2021 | Writing

Short of duct-taping yourself to your chair and asking someone to change the wifi password on you, how do you face the dreaded blinking cursor? Of course, to some people, this is a silly question. “What do you mean, force myself to write? I can hardly stop...

How do you write a whole ass book?

by | Jul 20, 2021 | Writing

You know the joke about how you eat an elephant? One bite at a time? That’s how I’ve heard people talk about finishing a novel.  So, I set a goal to write at least 300 words a day. Because it’s achievable even if it’s midnight and I still haven’t started yet. In...

My identity as a writer

by | Jul 19, 2021 | Writing

When I was heading into my junior year in college, fresh off a two-month-long vacation study abroad trip to Spain, I found out I’d lost my 4.0 GPA. Worst of all, it felt more like a technicality because, in Spain, the grades I received would have been counted as...