It feels like just yesterday when I was overwhelmed and anxious about the idea of completing a novel. I was…
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At the beginning, it’s perfectly okay to have no idea what you’re doing. It’s okay to spend hours at a…
This week, we’re sharing what we’d wished we’d known when we started writing. It’s a hard question. While I tell…
When I began writing creatively—during the 1990s when I lived in Connecticut—hoping to get some short stories I had written…
I am so excited to welcome Kristin Harmel to The Debutante Ball. Kristin’s latest novel is The Winemaker’s Wife, an…
So, you want to query an agent, huh? It’s a gamble, yet an exciting one, dear writing, fishing with your…
In the grand scheme of things, writing the novel is supposed to be the hard part. Compared to writing my…
So many aspects of being a writer are anxiety-producing. I’ve basically been bathing in cortisol since I finished a first…
After I’d put my novel through dozens of revisions over the course of many years, I felt confident enough to…
Hey, let me tell you what I’m trying to do at this very moment: prep for my author marketing meeting,…