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in precarious weather
this via bookninja has comforted me immensely, particularly the following points: 24 The writing life, like life in general, has a sacramental and a secretarial side. As years pass and duties accrue, the secretarial, clerical mode can grow like a lymphoma and start to squeeze life from the sacramental. 25 So learn to be irresponsible…
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EWF reader: Critical Gratitude
I just got my Emerging Writers Festival reader in the mail. hooray for writerly advice and emergentsia in-jokes! i’m reposting my piece from the reader below, with permission. Critical Gratitude “If you promote yourself, you will have no success.”– Lao Tzu Your dream has come true. Your debut novel is in the shops, you’ve been…
