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What Your Last 10 Years of Writing Have to Tell You

2019-11-18
By: Colleen
On: November 18, 2019
In: Finding & Following Your Voice, Uncategorized

Where were you as a writer 10 years ago? What was important to you then? And how does it compare to what’s important to you now? I got to thinking about this the other day after watching a TED talk by Dan Gilbert called “The Psychology of Your Future Self.”Continue Reading

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Your Scariest Writing Future and How to Avoid It

2018-10-22
By: Colleen
On: October 22, 2018
In: When Writing Is Hard

If you were to write a story about a writer’s worst nightmare, what would it be like? You’ve probably already imagined it. When you were slaving away on your novel, worried that you’d never find a publisher, you thought of it then: What will happen if this story never seesContinue Reading

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