What Your Day Job Brings to Your Writing (and vice versa)
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What Your Day Job Brings to Your Writing (and vice versa)

Once, during a job interview, one of the interviewers confessed that she had google-ed me.

Then, she asked me if, as a creative writer, I actually had time for any other work—including that potential job.

This wasn’t friendly small talk between two just-met strangers.

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Fair Pay: 6 Tips for Writers (and writing teachers)
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Fair Pay: 6 Tips for Writers (and writing teachers)

Last month, as I filled my dining room table with receipts and mileages and 2022 credit card bills—all to prepare and file my 2022 taxes—I noticed a pattern.

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Ditch that Messy Draft. Embrace the Blank Writing Page.
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Ditch that Messy Draft. Embrace the Blank Writing Page.

Should I write a new draft? Or throw my writing away?

Yesterday I decided to dust off an old, Thanksgiving holiday-themed essay. It had already been drafted and re-drafted, so (I convinced myself) it would only take an hour to edit, fix and pitch.

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