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Getting Over Perfectionism
The absolutely best writing advice I ever heard came from a writer friend of mine who’s much more successful (about a million billion times), much better looking, and with a genius mind. She said,...
View ArticleIt Doesn’t Have to Be Good, It Just Has to BE
I’m a firm believer that the first draft of a manuscript does not need to be good. It just has to BE. A first draft is not the time to agonize over le mot juste, or try to come up with perfect...
View ArticleWhy Writers Irrationally Dislike Their WIPs
A very typical response to a manuscript you’ve written is to at times dislike, or be critical of it. (Or to love it to death, but for now we’ll look at the days you dislike it.) You look at what you...
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