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Are You Grateful for Your Critics?

This is the seventh and final entry in our mini-series on dealing with rejection. Rejection is not fun, but it still has an important place ...

Journal of a Memoir #1

In this episode, I begin a series on the making of my Father’s memoir of his experiences in Vietnam. I’ll be writing it with him ...

It Only Takes One Match to Burn a Bridge Down

This is the sixth entry in our mini-series on dealing with rejection. When your writing has been rejected—or at least, when you perceive that it ...

You Don’t Need a Gatekeeper

This is the third entry in our mini-series on dealing with rejection. The publishing world has changed radically in the last fifteen years or so. ...

Keep a Lid on It

Have you ever noticed that writers like to talk about the things they’re working on? It’s a strange habit, isn’t it? Maybe it’s because we ...

It All Goes Back in the Box

The way some of us writers shrink back from a challenge, you’d think we live forever. We hesitate to write that book because we fear ...

What’s Luck Got to Do With It?

When you begin studying the lives of the great writers, one of the most surprising things you’ll learn is how well aware most of them ...

Believe It All Over

jennifer love hewitt nude One of the curses of being a writer is that we are too rational. We pride ourselves on reporting the facts ...