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“Il faut cultiver notre jardin,” —Voltaire
For those of us who don’t do fancy French, this means:
“We must cultivate our garden,” says Pangloss at the end of Voltaire’s Candide.
No sentiment could be truer for women who write. Stop focusing on the whole wide world. Instead, maintain a space that is your own and encourages the fruits of your labors to blossom.
But the process of growing our garden requires the right tools. Reading this blog and learning how to revise your own stories could help you cultivate your garden, obtain peace of mind, and establish your writing legacy. Happy reading and writing!
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What to Do if Someone Steals Your Writing?
Eeeeeeekkkk. The fear of someone stealing your intellectual property.
It’s a real worry for many new writers. But is it a justified fear?
Like so many other issues in the writing world, the answer is maybe.
Use This Empathy Check When Writing Your Problematic Characters
It’s been long established that your memoir shouldn’t be filled with Disneyesque do-good princesses and wicked villains. That’s lazy writing.
You know and I know that people have nuance. So how should you handle a bad guy in your memoir?
5 Things to Do When You Can’t Write
Unfortunately, downtimes will happen as a writer. Don’t fret!
These writing breaks or hiatuses are necessary. They’re the pauses in a piece of music. The silence that’s necessary for us to hear the notes. Or sleep at the end of a challenging day.
In short, writing breaks are a needed rest. So what do you do when you can’t write?
Everything I Know About Writing, I Learned from the Science of Reading**
Were you duped into believing people naturally learned to read and write? That these skills were reserved for the naturally gifted?
I was.
Find out why explicit instruction is so vital and also why how you learn to read can impact your future as a writer.
Why I Quit Social Media—It’s All About Knowing Your Audience
I still have social media icons on my website.
And you can look up my social presence. Weeeeelllll, you can find an older version of me on platforms like Facebook and Instagram, but I don’t update my social media much these days. Maybe that will change. But my writing pause during COVID caused me to rethink my social media identity. Not only did I have less time to post with a toddler at home 24/7, but I also needed to clarify my audience.