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Category: Writing Life
Love Your Local booksellers Year Round
Don’t wait 364 days to support indie book stores. Don’t know why you need to support them? Here are 17 reasons, plus 8 non-book-buying ways to support them.
Balancing the Costs and Benefits of Being Creative
Creative products are undervalued by customers and creators. This writer takes a look at the numerous invisible costs and decides creativity is worth the cost.
10 Mindset Shifts to Build Your “I Can Handle This” Toolkit
Sometimes being a writer is overwhelming. So much to learn. So much to do. Here are 10 mindset shifts that will help you say “I can handle this.”
The Emotional Toll of Writing Dark Fiction
I created characters I thought couldn’t exist in America—then watched them appear on the news. How to keep writing when reality feels dystopian.