Ernest Hemingway might just be the most imitated writer of the past hundred years. His signature bare-bones style has gone on to inform pretty much every aspect of what we consider best practice in modern writing, and he’s been explicitly cited by writers including Stephen King, Raymond Carver, Ray Bradbury, and dozens of others. Hell,
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An elevator pitch is a quick, punchy set of statements that you can use to sell your book to a publisher, agent, or reader. The idea is that, if the person you’re trying to sell to got into an elevator with you, you’d be able to deliver your pitch before they reached their destination. Of
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
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