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No MFA. No Worries.
To MFA or not to MFA. That has occupied my mind since learning of the MFA as a young writer and undergrad. To me, the MFA had always held...
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Apr 19, 20177 min read
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#10. Passionate Love
No one loves your writing more than you do. You do not hate your writing, or even better, you are not agnostic towards your writing....
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Apr 15, 20172 min read
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#7. Scheduled Pragmatism
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”– Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft...
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Mar 30, 20173 min read
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#5. Thick Skin
No one wants to read your stuff. Not even your mom. You are too politically incorrect. You can’t write. Who do you even read? “I think...
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Mar 24, 20173 min read
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The Better Fruit of Rejection
Oh, rejection. It’s a shriveled orange. It’s the spider inside the banana. It’s a human’s lot and a writer’s eighty-acre wood. And if...
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Mar 14, 20174 min read
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#2 Persistence. Tenacity. Perseverance.
If you are not in this for the long haul then you will break before you get there. You might break before anyway. Can you write through...
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Dec 31, 20153 min read
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