Being Nice: Who Do You Think You Are?
carriejonesbooks I spend almost all my time trying to be a nice person. It’s always been like this; I kid you not. Like in fifth grade I was voted MOST COURTEOUS…
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Writing Heroes Who Don’t Suck
Who do you root for? In your own life, this question is easy. We root for ourselves. A lot of the time we root for our friends, our family. We…
Writers, Be Simple
We’ve all heard the statistics: Writers take ten years to get their first novel published, on average The average children’s book writer makes 5k a year, if she’s lucky. If…
Dogs Are Smarter Than People Podcast – First Drafts Suck, But It’s Okay
Hard writer truth time: First drafts suck. Almost everything stinks the first time you do it. That’s because it’s THE FIRST time you do it. But, we tend to expect…
First Drafts Suck But So Do A Ton of Other Things
Hard writer truth time: First drafts suck. Almost everything stinks the first time you do it. That’s because it’s THE FIRST time you do it. But, we tend to expect…