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Read more about the article The 5 Joys of Kickass Clients (Aside from the Money)

The 5 Joys of Kickass Clients (Aside from the Money)

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:March 31, 2021
  • Post category:Blog/Business/Joy

Sure, great clients pay well, but there are so many other reasons to work for getting them as well.

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Read more about the article Don’t Let Your Feelings Go to Waste

Don’t Let Your Feelings Go to Waste

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:February 25, 2021
  • Post category:Blog/Craft

Ever wish there was a writing resource where you could house emotions to draw from? Enter the Feelings File.

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Read more about the article 3 Reasons I Write About Pain

3 Reasons I Write About Pain

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:February 11, 2021
  • Post category:Blog/Craft/Joy

One day last year, I was nearly doubled over in emotional pain, feeling directionless, asking what I should even do with all this pain. A little voice in my head…

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Read more about the article Craft Lessons from Sad Songs

Craft Lessons from Sad Songs

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:January 21, 2021
  • Post category:Blog/Craft

What is it about sad songs that makes us crave them? Do we want to be sadder? Are we trying to prolong the pain? Or, just maybe, is there a glint of healing in sharing someone else's sadness?

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Read more about the article How to Become a Writer Even If You’re Broke

How to Become a Writer Even If You’re Broke

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:January 13, 2021
  • Post category:Blog/Business/Personal Finance

The ultimate guide on how to get an education, network, and become a successful writer on a shoestring.

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Read more about the article Gritty Travel, Persistence, and Writing Old Memories

Gritty Travel, Persistence, and Writing Old Memories

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:December 8, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Craft

Read or watch my conversation with Pam Mandel, author of the travel memoir The Same River Twice.

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Read more about the article What Happens When You Stop Hating Yourself

What Happens When You Stop Hating Yourself

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:November 17, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Joy

When you start from a place of acceptance, you're more likely to find a way to stop disappointing yourself.

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Read more about the article The People You Allow Inside Your Quarantine Will Change You

The People You Allow Inside Your Quarantine Will Change You

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:October 19, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Joy

Before I moved in with her, I knew Vicki Robin only as the local author of the personal-finance bestseller Your Money or Your Life, the matriarch of the financial independence…

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Read more about the article Getting Back Up After A Creative Setback

Getting Back Up After A Creative Setback

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:October 12, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Craft

I was standing on a rock in a yard in Colombia, trying to find good reception. My friend, a novelist, was on the phone, and his words, spoken from 4,000…

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Read more about the article Why Quarantine Is A Great Time for Writers to Pick Up Yoga

Why Quarantine Is A Great Time for Writers to Pick Up Yoga

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:September 14, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Joy

Every Sunday, before I dive into my Morning Pages, I dive into downward-facing dog. I stretch myself into asanas, pushing my body up and out, channeling vitality that will power…

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Read more about the article A Writer’s Guide to Camping

A Writer’s Guide to Camping

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:June 30, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Joy

Listen, I'm a little bitch about my sleep. If I don't get my 7.5 hours, I morph into an emotional toddler. There I'll be, tearing up about the Capri Sun…

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Read more about the article Now Might Be a Good Time for Those Semesters of Black Lit

Now Might Be a Good Time for Those Semesters of Black Lit

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:June 19, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Book Lists/Craft

“White privilege is your history being taught as a core class and mine being taught as an elective.” - Ozy Aloziem Since 2011 and until February, I lived in Capitol…

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Read more about the article A Hot Date with Some Lit Mag Submissions

A Hot Date with Some Lit Mag Submissions

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:May 28, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Business/Joy

Spending an evening submitting is less like a day at work and more like a hot date, minus the sex and human connection. 🤷‍♀️

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Read more about the article How to Find the Right Lit Mag for You

How to Find the Right Lit Mag for You

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:May 22, 2020
  • Post category:Business/Craft

Every writer should be reading both the best and the most accessible literary magazines. Here's how.

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Read more about the article Buying Your Freedom to Be a Writer

Buying Your Freedom to Be a Writer

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:May 15, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Joy/Personal Finance/Podcast

I landed at the house of Vicki Robin in early February.  The plan was that I, in between apartments, would live in her island home, in a room with a…

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Read more about the article Focus and Finish with the Crown of Concentration

Focus and Finish with the Crown of Concentration

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:May 7, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Business/Writers' Gear

Here's a quick and fun way to get some more work done in close quarters with others.

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Read more about the article How to Stuff As Much Meaning in Your Verbs As Possible

How to Stuff As Much Meaning in Your Verbs As Possible

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:April 29, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Craft

How to relay an entire simile with a verb packed with meaning.

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Read more about the article An Ode to the Literary Bath

An Ode to the Literary Bath

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:April 23, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Joy/Writers' Gear

One of the bedrocks of a successful writing life is the full understanding that any research that needs to be done can be done in the bath.

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Read more about the article Organizing Your Writing Life In a World of Chaos

Organizing Your Writing Life In a World of Chaos

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:April 16, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Business/Joy/Personal Finance

If you're able to focus on organization right now, here are some projects that could serve you for the rest of your writing life.

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Read more about the article How Can We Help Each Other Through?

How Can We Help Each Other Through?

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:April 9, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Joy

It took me about two weeks to pick myself up off the floor. I'm still limping, rolling onto the bed, numbing out on scrolling, wine, and various high-fat items. Then…

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Read more about the article Cooking My Way Through This

Cooking My Way Through This

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:March 30, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Joy/Personal Finance

I was scrolling through Twitter like every tweet was a bump of coke, when a post by my friend Willie stopped me: The next day, I spent two hours taking…

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Read more about the article How to Write (or Not) During the Coronavirus Outbreak

How to Write (or Not) During the Coronavirus Outbreak

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:March 20, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Joy

It's the time of Coronavirus, which is pretty much like the bad dystopian novel plot we all can't believe we're living.  And I'll tell you what, I'm not writing that…

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Read more about the article Everything I Know About Marketing I Definitely Did NOT Learn from AWP

Everything I Know About Marketing I Definitely Did NOT Learn from AWP

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:March 11, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Business

“Yes!” said a young woman at the AWP conference for writers, rounding the corner to my all-the-way-in-the-back-corner booth. “This is where those stickers are coming from!” It was the last…

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Read more about the article Writers Get Wild: Creating Your Own Self-Run Writing Retreat

Writers Get Wild: Creating Your Own Self-Run Writing Retreat

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:February 19, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Business/Craft/Joy/Personal Finance

My rent is $350 for the next three months, and I can't tell whether it's that or the physical space around me, trees instead of buildings, cows instead of crowds,…

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Read more about the article 10 Things I’ve Learned in 10 Years of Writing the Personal Essay

10 Things I’ve Learned in 10 Years of Writing the Personal Essay

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:February 11, 2020
  • Post category:Blog/Craft

From my first essay nearly published a decade ago to the viral essay that got a million readers to the little goof essays I write now, here are 10 things I've learned about writing powerful personal essays

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