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Read more about the article Will AI Take Over Freelance Writing?

Will AI Take Over Freelance Writing?

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:November 21, 2023
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What does AI mean for the future of creative writing? I decided to ask it.

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Read more about the article How I Finished My Novel … 10 Years Later

How I Finished My Novel … 10 Years Later

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:November 14, 2023
  • Post category:Blog/Core Concepts/Craft
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Ten years of writing, re-starting and editing, and then it happened last week: I finally finished my novel’s Sh*tty First Draft™️.

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Read more about the article The Best Thing I Read This Week

The Best Thing I Read This Week

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:November 9, 2023
  • Post category:Blog/Craft/Joy
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I have a list of general questions I start with in most interviews, but often just let my curiosity lead me. This NYT opinion piece added so many more to my list.

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Read more about the article What it Means to Connect at Every Level

What it Means to Connect at Every Level

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:October 27, 2023
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You can do what AI can't — build relationships!

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Read more about the article Can Your Writing do These 3 Things?

Can Your Writing do These 3 Things?

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:September 22, 2023
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What we can learn from words that make us uncomfortable.

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Read more about the article Writing on Vacation

Writing on Vacation

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:September 2, 2023
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When I take any type of vacation, I try to leave all the “shoulds” of my writing life behind. Then the biggest question is, “Should I write at all on vacation?”

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Read more about the article Pitch, Please!

Pitch, Please!

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:August 15, 2023
  • Post category:Blog/Business/Craft
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Your writer senses tell you “Hey, this could be a story.” But wait! There are steps to getting your idea actually accepted.

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Read more about the article I Hate Pitching (But I Want Fancy Bylines)

I Hate Pitching (But I Want Fancy Bylines)

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:August 8, 2023
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If we want those fancy bylines, we have to get past the pitch. 

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Read more about the article Put the Spirit of Summer in Your Writing

Put the Spirit of Summer in Your Writing

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:July 25, 2023
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How often do you write something just for the joy of writing?

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Read more about the article How to Get Your Writing Joy Back

How to Get Your Writing Joy Back

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:July 18, 2023
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Take your writing life from striving to thriving with the ultimate life hack: remembering we're all going to die anyway.

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Read more about the article Beat the Summer Writing Slump

Beat the Summer Writing Slump

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:July 11, 2023
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We don't want to look back in the fall and think, "Bleh, I have to start all over again!" Inertia is a b-word.

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Read more about the article Die, Procrastination!

Die, Procrastination!

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:November 17, 2022
  • Post category:Blog/Core Concepts/Craft/Joy

There is just something magical about starting your writing with a short mindfulness practice.

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Read more about the article Facing the Beast

Facing the Beast

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:November 9, 2022
  • Post category:Blog/Craft/Resources for Students

If you've taken time off from writing, it's never as simple as just sitting down to write. Here's how to get back in the seat and back to business.

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Read more about the article Julia Cameron Taught Me to Pray

Julia Cameron Taught Me to Pray

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:October 27, 2022
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In my spiritual life, an attempt at still openness has been central. I never prayed into that openness, until my conversation with Julia Cameron.

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Read more about the article The Solution You Haven’t Tried…Yet.

The Solution You Haven’t Tried…Yet.

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:October 13, 2022
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What could happen if you committed yourself to asking, and asking everyone, until you found what you were looking for?

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Read more about the article Why You Have a Shelf of Unread Books (and What to Do About It)

Why You Have a Shelf of Unread Books (and What to Do About It)

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:August 12, 2021
  • Post category:Blog/Joy

Join us here in the Bookshelf Shame Club.

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Read more about the article 5 Ideas to Cling to as Writer Living in a Pandemic

5 Ideas to Cling to as Writer Living in a Pandemic

  • Post author:Dinah Smithey
  • Post published:September 21, 2020
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"How's your humanity?" That's the question we focused on when I recently had the pleasure of joining Courtney Maum and Parneshia Jones in conversation as part of “Virtual AWP: The…

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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 Read This to Learn That: Gaby Dunn’s “Bad with Money” and Starting as a Writer from Nothing

Read This to Learn That: Gaby Dunn’s “Bad with Money” and Starting as a Writer from Nothing

  • Post author:Paulette Perhach
  • Post published:July 9, 2019
  • Post category:Blog/Read This to Learn That

One thing I know about the writing life is that you get better at the thing by doing it. I started out hoping to be invited to do the thing…

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