Just Keep Writing: Know Your Limits (and take a break)
Sometimes your goals are not achievable. That’s okay.
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Just Keep Writing: When You Feel Behind
We’re not limping behind writers who have gone ahead but standing on the same platform, cheering each other on. Every published author is doing what you’re doing today: sitting down to write.
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Just Keep Writing: How to Get Unstuck (Without Falling Asleep)
From my experience, if I continue to sit at my computer and stare at the screen until I have an idea, I will fall asleep. Every time.
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Just Keep Writing: When You Find a Book Identical to Yours
“Just Keep Writing” is a series of pep talks I’m writing for myself in hopes that it will help you as well. I wrote this post in 2021 while I was working on my book, Fight or Flight. New Fearless Writing posts will be shared every other Wednesday, which include this series, book reviews, and writing…
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Just Keep Writing: How to Keep Writing Through Self-Doubt
Some stories come out nearly perfect, but others need more time to simmer. That doesn’t mean that this story is bad. It just needs more work before it becomes as good as it can be.
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Just Keep Writing: Journey Before Destination
We all have to decide what success is for us. This isn’t so that we lower our standards, but so that we identify when our standards rest on a shaky foundation.
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Setting and Tracking Writing Goals (with downloadable Excel sheet)
New Courageous Writing posts will be shared every other Wednesday, which include book reviews, writing inspiration, and writing tips. Setting writing goals Setting daily word count goals has helped me tremendously over the years, particularly when writing my MFA thesis. These goals made my writing time more focused, and tracking those goals made the end of…
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Just Keep Writing
Last year, I struggled to keep writing. I was working on a middle-grade novel that is currently in the “cooling” phase of revisions. Some days the words came, and some days they didn’t. The only sure thing was that I would eventually come to doubt every word on the page. This is the fear that…
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Emily Brooks 