The Debutante Ball

Seven debut authors. Seven books. One big dance toward publication.

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Tag: failure

  • Posted on Wednesday, October 30, 2019Tuesday, October 29, 2019
  • by Karen Osborne

Fight or flight, fear and failure

Do you want to know my number one writing fear? Writing this blog entry. Ha, ha. I’m mostly kidding. I…

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  • Posted on Thursday, October 3, 2019Sunday, November 10, 2019
  • by Yodassa Williams

Rejection and failure

When I was in the tense time of life in which I was sending out queries of my novel, I…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, October 1, 2019Monday, September 30, 2019
  • by Kathleen West

You Can’t Win the Game If You Don’t Play

Real talk: I’ve spent most of my life as a fixed-mindset perfectionist who is afraid to take any risks.  Also…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, June 13, 2018Wednesday, June 13, 2018
  • by Kimmery Martin

Winning and Losing and Writing: Kimmery Talks About Failure

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing you are not innovating.—Elon Musk Let’s just stipulate that I’m…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2018Tuesday, June 12, 2018
  • by Lara Lillibridge

Navigating Failure is Easier Than Navigating Success

Trigger warning: depression, anxiety.   People who have experienced trauma may associate the excitement of success with the same physiological…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2017Wednesday, November 15, 2017
  • by Kimmery Martin

Kimmery’s Defense of Contest Losers

This week we are talking about writing contests, which is going to be an interesting discussion for me because I’m…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, November 1, 2017Monday, October 30, 2017
  • by Kimmery Martin

Kimmery’s Top Five Writing Fears

1. Fear of Being Considered a Grey’s Anatomy Knockoff: I hear this a lot. My book contains some similarities to…

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  • Posted on Thursday, November 10, 2016Friday, August 25, 2017
  • by Jenni L. Walsh

The Day Jenni L. Walsh Quit Writing

This week’s Deb topic is about big decisions we’ve made as writers. I’d like to talk about that time I…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, February 18, 2014Monday, February 17, 2014
  • by Natalia Sylvester

3 Things I’ve Learned About Writing & Competing Against Others

#1: If you must compete, compete against your peers.  The first writing contest I ever won was for a local…

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  • Posted on Tuesday, December 17, 2013Tuesday, December 17, 2013
  • by Natalia Sylvester

Fail Big? Succeed Bigger.

The thing I’m most proud of stemmed from my biggest failure. The first book I wrote and finished (before Chasing…

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