Many writers know that dreams and stories go together. Dream analyst Megan Mary helps people interpret their dreams, but she also uses dreamwork in her novels. Discover her tips for creative writing below! by Megan Mary From a young age, I’ve been captivated by dreams. As a child, I oftenContinue Reading
Author and musician Gregory Duncan shares his journey from trauma to authorship, including the ups and downs on the way. Writing can seem like having an illness. The writer carries around something that mainly they are trying to get rid of, like a bad cough that won’t go away. IfContinue Reading
My biggest challenge has always been that I’m not patient enough. I used to write fast and put it out fast. And the feedback every time was very clear—‘I rushed my work’, ‘I didn’t develop my characters as much as I could have’, and I knew they were right. IContinue Reading
I feel so excited while I’m writing, but when it comes time to share my work, I freeze. I’ve had to get over that, but rejection is difficult for me, as it is for a lot of writers. What Helps Me Deal with Rejection Rejection hasn’t stopped me, but I’veContinue Reading
The biggest emotional challenge for me has been self-doubt. It took me SO LONG to give myself permission to write the book of my heart. I have been in love with words and the effects of words all my life. Every book I’ve ever loved made me want to createContinue Reading
I always thought the hard part of being a writer would be getting published. And that was a challenge; I was rejected over a hundred times for my first two books, books I ended up trunking. I got my agent with my third book, Jester, and after lots more rejectionContinue Reading
The biggest emotional challenge of being a writer has to do with the uncertainty of the effect of my work on an unknown reader. As a physician, I had regular feedback, sometimes immediately, from my patients. It was gratifying to know I had helped someone. As a writer, the firstContinue Reading
The biggest challenge I face as a writer is that I’m not a writer. Let me unpack that. I’m a Writer, In the Sense That I Write I am a writer, in the sense that I write. A lot. I must be a masochist. I love “having written,” but theContinue Reading
In all honesty—and without sounding like a Pollyanna—I haven’t encountered any emotional challenges in my writing, or in my life, for that matter. I suppose I owe much of that to a lifetime of meditation, over some fifty years now, which has kept me on an even keel through anyContinue Reading
Easily, the biggest emotional challenge of being a writer is the rejection. No one likes rejection, no matter the circumstance, but with creative arts such as writing, it is unavoidable and painfully frequent. It’s Hard Not to Take Rejections Personally Since falling back in to writing in 2014, I’ve queriedContinue Reading
Hands down, rejection and self-doubt have been my biggest emotional challenges. Of course, those are intertwined. The more rejections I get, the more self-doubt I experience. Writing is so full of rejection –after probably 80 queries I finally found an agent, but then the agent queried 25 editors and receivedContinue Reading
I’d say my biggest emotional challenge started for me after I wrote my first novel. I sat at my computer staring into the illuminated screen and said, “Now what?” At first, I hadn’t a clue about self-publishing or traditional publishing. I researched and tried to wrap my head around theContinue Reading