Jennifer Perrine
Read. Geek out on the books you love best. Memorize parts of them. Save some room to fall in love with other books, other genres, the ones you haven't met yet.
Learn how to do something crafty: knitting, gardening, carpentry. When writing feels like a mysterious, unending process, turn to your craftiness. "Aha," you will say as you look at that scarf, those pea vines, that deck. "That's what satisfaction feels like." Remember that feeling when you return to the writing that waits for you.
Treat writing like a scientific experiment. Accept that failure is part of the process, that failure gives you valuable information for the next experiment. Keep testing your hypotheses. Leave a trail of failure in your wake.
Be kind to yourself. Be kind to other writers. Just be kind, dang it.
Learn how to do something crafty: knitting, gardening, carpentry. When writing feels like a mysterious, unending process, turn to your craftiness. "Aha," you will say as you look at that scarf, those pea vines, that deck. "That's what satisfaction feels like." Remember that feeling when you return to the writing that waits for you.
Treat writing like a scientific experiment. Accept that failure is part of the process, that failure gives you valuable information for the next experiment. Keep testing your hypotheses. Leave a trail of failure in your wake.
Be kind to yourself. Be kind to other writers. Just be kind, dang it.
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