motivation
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Congratulations! You failed!
If there’s anything consistent about the creative life, it’s that you will get rejected. A lot. I’m sure you know that already, but probably, when you first started sending out work, a part of you assumed that wouldn’t apply to you. The first time I sent out a story, I had this fantasy–we all had…
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How to Make it as a Writer
Recently, a writer asked me for advice on how to “get there”, the implication being that I was somehow ‘there’ and she was somewhere else, trying to figure out how to break through the forest and get to this magical clearing of thereness. My question, hearing this, was “Where is ‘there’?” As an emerging writer,…
Sonal Champsee 