Cut to a year later—I started to feel a tiny sense of dread each time I had to come up with my next piece.
People ask me often how I get over bad reviews and keep going even when people are unimaginably cruel. It all goes back to a simple parsing of semantics we aren't taught in school.
The stench of charred flesh filled my nostrils as we made our way down the dirt roads of Hell.
The surest path to improving your writing is to finish writing the thing you are writing through to completion,
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Why I Still Believe in Publishing Despite its Flaws
Months ago, a writer friend of mine asked me if it was worth it to start a Substack. Like me, she was working on a memoir. I told her yes, but it's a bit more complicated than all that.
Having consistent income every month helps create safety for authors, but how can we build that recurring revenue when it feels impossible to get anyone interested in peeking behind the paywall.
Dis was nothing like I had imagined. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it was a happy place, but the monsters living there certainly didn’t seem any more miserable than they did on Earth.
Life happens and learning to accept that can sometimes turn a disaster into something even better. This is true of our writing as well.
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