When finished the second draft of my novel, The Perfect Traveler, I had a sludge of slow cooked emotions in my pot. Relief, pride, discouragement, frustration, embarrassment, achievement....never has …
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This weekend marked an enormous milestone for me: I completed the first working draft of my novel. I did not celebrate. In fact, I cried. Here's why. I've been working on this story …
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Two years ago I started work on a novel that I thought would be easy to write. I'd dreamed the entire plot and cast of characters. It seemed the only work would be in getting it onto the …
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