publishing
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A Writer or an Author?
There are hundreds of websites out there that will tell you that to be a writer, all you need to do is write. I used to read this advice, nod sagely, and then think “This is pablum.” All a writer needs to do is write sounds like something you say to comfort yourself because you haven’t…
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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 