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Plotting diagrams and publishing trends
Plus the words I hope will help me through the year (Writing Journal #10)
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Do authors have a moral obligation to provide readers with hope?
Plus plotting problems, a poll, and this month's paid subscriber extras (Writing Journal #9)
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Welcome to The Resilient Author for 2025!
Grounding ourselves, and finding strength and focus for the year to come
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The Resilient Author wrap-up for 2024
It's been a year of making beautiful connections in ways that AI can only dream of!
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My eyes! My eyes! The slow return to deep work and settling my mind
On dialling things down and playing the long game (Writing Journal #8)
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Puppies, promo creep and forward planning
Plus building new resources for paid subscribers (Writing Journal #7)
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The joy of the finish line!
And why I sometimes find it hard to talk about my books (Writing Journal #6)
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Celebrating my first year on Substack
Everything I've learned over the last 12 months
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A peek inside my writing process
I don't always have a clear writing system, but I often go back to tried and tested methods (Writing Journal #5)
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Happy New Year! Now let's buckle in for the ride
My hopes for 2024, reading Atwood and Alderman, and trying to live a good life in uncertain times (Writing Journal #4)
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The grand finale of a structural edit: weeding out words and edging closer to the finish line
Writing Journal: When She Was Gone #3
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A (hotel) room of one's own. Validating and celebrating creative practice.
Writing Journal: When She Was Gone #2
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