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What You Didn’t Know Can Hurt You
Six Train’s sequel is decimating me. What I thought was a good second draft isn’t. And I’m trying to balance my vision for the story against my betas’ comments. I’ve run the emotional gamut from let’s burn this entire manuscript … Continue reading
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A Week Without My Laptop
Last week my laptop went down. A major hardware problem made it malfunction. I still had Apple Care protection so I called in and then sent my laptop off to the Apple Engineers. It completely derailed my week. Because despite … Continue reading
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Posted in Personal
Tagged anxiety, frustration, laptop hardware problem, stress, working without a laptop, worst case scenario, worst work week
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Reblog: The Fear
Here’s a reblog of something I posted in 2011 about writer fear. Thought it might be useful to hear what happens inside my head in that moment. 🙂
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Posted in Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged anxiety, failure, fear, loss, muse, not good enough, self doubt, writer's block
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Why do I say Um so Much?
Seriously. Whenever, I am giving a brief presentation or talk “Um” slides into the pauses. Why can’t I just freaking pause?! I was practicing a 10 minute overview of charity auctions for writers today. And of course, I said Um … Continue reading
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Posted in Events, Personal
Tagged anxiety, giving a presentation, nerves, Practice, Public speaking, Rocking, Um
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The Fear
It’s not an everyday thing. But some mornings, after I finish my breakfast, FB, emails. It comes. The Fear. That today I won’t know where to begin my writing. That I’ll sit at the laptop frozen in terror. That my … Continue reading
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Posted in Writing
Tagged anxiety, failure, fear, loss, muse, not good enough, self doubt, writer's block
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Nerves
So I signed up for a query and a manuscript critique at Killer Nashville. Both I will receive this morning. I’m a little bit butterflies in the belly. I also signed up for verbal pitches. Think godzilla in the belly. … Continue reading
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Posted in Conferences, Uncategorized
Tagged anxiety, Killer Nashville, nerves, novel, pitching
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