Facing Your Fears
carriejonesbooks This past week, I travelled six hours to Vermont to do four days of writer residencies at a cool small school in Orange, which is the best name for a…
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Sometimes People Suck, Yes Even Parents and Writers
Being a writer is cool and weird. I’m trying to explain this to the students I’m visiting in Vermont this week, and mostly I’ve been talking about: How cool/weird it…
Word Count Troubles
I am having a hard time writing today. Understatement of the year, right there, Little Lady.Thanks Mr. Wayne, dead movie star, and inner Carrie Jones critic. Nice of you to…
Yo! We’re High Concept.
So there’s a quick and easy way to figure out who you are and who you want to be, but also figure out what your book is and what it…
Motivation and Creativity And Hand Pies
We all want to be creative. We all want to be amazing at relationships. This guy, Benjamin Hardy, PHD, wrote an article on Medium exactly about that. It’s called “21…