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Beta Readers

Looking for Beta readers to help with proofreading to catch misspellings, punctuation errors, sentences that make zero sense, echoing phrases, etc.

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Spaghetti Thoughts

How did my family and I get through one of the toughest periods of our lives and balance my writing life during this dark time?

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Back on the horse…

How Netflix’s “Julie and the Phantoms” helped me tap back into my creativity after the darkest period of my life.

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Loss

Loss and grief are not the same for everyone. Death has followed me from a young age and certain things are difficult to reconcile.

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Rejection

30 years of rejection have familiarized me with the question of fitting in, be it me as a person or my work as a writer. These thirty years have also prepared me to be strong during any rejections.

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Querying

Today I sent out my first round of queries and it wasn’t as scary as I thought it would be.

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Time

I wanted to participate in #PitDark this week, but I am waiting on feedback, therefore I’m not ready. It was a hard decision to come to, and I really had to check myself.

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Struggling

It's dark but funny to think that I've waited almost 11 months to see my husband and now we are stuck together like sardines and in need of a break.

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In between

The time in between when you are finished writing your novel and waiting for the final feedback from critique partners is the worst.

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Acts of service

Having someone who believes in you and in your dreams is the most amazing thing in the world.

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Beach

The sounds of the waves crashing reminded me of everytime I came up against a negative thought about my writing or a block I was having trouble getting past.

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3k followers

I just hit 3k followers on Twitter and I know it doesn’t seem like much in the scheme of things, its something I never imagined would happen.

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After

Yesterday was the first day I didn’t pick up my MS and it felt oddly calming.

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Finished.

I never thought I would write a novel, but here I am and it feels amazing.

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