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Why Do You Write?

If someone told you right now that you’d never be published, or that wherever you are as a writer now is the most you would ever achieve…would you stop? Recently…

Why You Can’t Rush Your Process

In a couple of years I’ll be celebrating my thirtieth anniversary of entering the publishing field as an editor. It kind of blows of my mind to look back over…

A rational antidote for emotional thinking

If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. “Mom I’m afraid that I’ll never be good enough, that I’m a failure.” “You may be right.…

Write like a writer; edit like an editor

If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. Recently I spent an exhilarating hour and a half talking to an author about editing—not his manuscript…

Impostor Syndrome

If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. Did those words send a little worm of self-doubt turning in your belly? Did they bring up…