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Do you ever feel like an impostor? Do you struggle to take yourself seriously? Are you uncomfortable talking about your writing or identifying yourself as a writer? Andrea Sims PhD, author of The Impostor Affect, describes this phenomenon as “the inability of high achieving people to internalize their successes or to believe that they are capable of or responsible for their own accomplishments. …
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I love the idea of dream logic – how dreams can go, and how even though they’re very abstract, you can understand them. – David Lynch from Thomas Caldwell’s ‘Living Inside a Dream: The Art and Films of David Lynch’ Despite all the insight modern science has given us, it still hasn’t solved the mystery of dreams. The field of neuroscience is unlocking secrets of the brain every day, but it …
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The blue screen of death. It’s every writer’s worst nightmare – that fatal system error that wipes your computer and all your precious work along with it. I sincerely hope this has never happened to you. But it could, and the only defense is to be ready when it does. It’s not so long since authors were accidentally leaving the single, bound copies of their manuscripts on trains, never to be …
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Romeo and Juliet. Scarlett and Rhett. Allie and Noah. Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy. Ron and Hermione. Jane Eyre and Rochester. Just a handful of the many memorable couples in literature. I bet you could add a few of your favorites to this list. What do these couples have in common? What is it about their stories that captures readers’ imaginations across the years, decades, and even centuries? In …
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Children are some of the most unique, misunderstood, and infuriating creatures on the planet. One moment they’ll astonish you with words of wisdom beyond their years, and the next, they’ll exasperate you with their stubbornness. It’s hard enough to write about children, but to write from a child’s perspective can sometimes push writers to the limits of their imagination. So, how can you …
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Happiness. It’s not – at face value – a likely theme for the novelist. – Robert McCrum, ‘Where is happiness in 20th-century fiction?’ from The Guardian Conflict is the fuel of fiction, the engine that keeps the story surging forward. But ‘all drama, all the time’ makes for an unrealistic reading experience and a pace that will have readers struggling to keep up. Narrative needs a natural …
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