Dealing with writing feedback is something we all struggle with. It can be hard and upsetting to receive a critique that points out the problems with your work, no matter how nicely worded that critique is, because you’ve more than likely poured a lot of yourself into it, and spent weeks, months or even years
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Is your story idea strong enough to become a book?
Just having an idea isn’t enough when you want to write a book. You have to decide whether your story idea is strong enough – can you turn it into a book of 50k words or more? If you choose a weak idea, you could find yourself giving up on the book while writing it,
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Why it’s okay to have unfinished projects (and ideas you’ll never write)
I was looking through some notebooks and folders on my laptop this weekend, and it got me thinking about ideas and unfinished projects. I’m preparing to flesh out some new book ideas to pitch to my agent. (I’m waiting for feedback on another draft, and I hate having no “current” writing project on the go.)
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