Sometimes You Have to Regroup In the book “Bird by Bird” by Anne Lamont, there’s a funny scene about writers accepting criticism. I’m paraphrasing here, but she describes how she has friends who read drafts of her books and then call her to give her feedback. She talks about how great it is that they’ve […]
The Writing Journey: Breakdown #2 It was September, 2014. My mother, who had been diagnosed with cancer in 2012, was in Intensive Care in the hospital. “Come now,” my father had said on the phone. So, of course, I did. And, that was the beginning of my week in ICU hell. My mother was on
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Writing on the Road For years, my husband and I have taken what I call a “Summer Adventure.” Basically, that entails packing up the car and the dog (or dogs) and driving from Arizona to Wisconsin and back (along with some “side” trips) to see family. Since Mr. PW and I both grew up in
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Breakdown #1 It was the year 2012. Looking back on it now, I can see exactly what happened. It was the perfect storm: I continuously ignored the whispers from my soul to get my books out into the world, and my anxiety and worry spun out of control. I’m a six on the Enneagram scale.
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Lost in the Wilderness After I made the decision to cut off my writer’s soul (to stop writing fiction and focus exclusively on building my copy and marketing company), I basically found myself lost in the wilderness. Although, I didn’t realize it at the time. What I DID know was that I kept finding myself
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Cutting Myself off from My Writing Soul The early 2000’s were not kind to my writing career. In 1998, I quit my job to become a freelance copywriter. Part of the reason why I wanted to start my writing business is because I thought I would have more time to work on my novels. I
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How the Eclipse Changed My Writing Life 2017 will forever be remembered as the year I became a writer. That likely sounds strange to you. After all, I’m a professional copywriter. I’ve been earning a living as a writer since 1998 when I started my freelance copy business. I began the transformation into owner of
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Stepping into My Fiction Author Identity There’s a strange phenomenon I occasionally witness at my copywriting and marketing company. Clients will hire us for copy and marketing support, pay in full, and then either disappear or not actually use what they paid for. When I would reach out to ask them why, I would typically
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