About This Writing Thing

Episode 6: Rejection & Revision

I was rejected. Twice! The first one wasn't to bad but the second was devastating for a full 24 hours...until I received their notes. I'm not wallowing here, I promise. Just chatting about rejection and maybe a little about the pressure we feel to not feel our feelings in public. 
Also, I'm revising my first novel! It's been a source of embarrassment to me for a while. A few weeks ago I decided to take the plunge and revise, revise, revise! 
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Episode 5: The Push to be a Planner

The full transcript for this episode is available at https://www.saywordbeller.com/post/episode-5-about-this-writing-thing-the-push-to-be-a-planner-transcript
Are you a plantser or a pantser and feel the constant push for you to be a plotter? Me too. That's why I'm talking about it this week. 
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Episode 4: No more "Aspiring" and other Peeves

Do you refer to yourself as an "aspiring" writer/author? Stop it!
This week I'm talking about a few things that we really need to stop doing in the writing community. First and foremost, stop minimizing what you're doing. If you're writing creative works you are not aspiring, you are writing. Want to write faster? We've all seen those videos and heard the spiel, right? I've got the answer in this episode!
**I say YouTube podcast in this episode. Sometimes my words don't work well. I meant, of course, YouTube video**
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Episode 3: Eliminating "Thought" Verbs

After reading Chuck Palahnuik's article Nuts and Bolts: "Thought" Verbs on Lit Reactor I knew I was in trouble! Time to eliminate those "thought" verbs from my narrative.