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Recipe For Losing Your Voice

March 28, 2021 by Leanne Sowul 3 Comments

How to Lose Your Creative Voice Preheat the environment with a year-long global pandemic. 2. Mix together despair, grief, and self-doubt. 3. Add several dashes of social media. The seasoning will become extra strong if you combine vitriol directed at your profession (teacher), and criticism directed at your identity (mom). Fold in frightening news coverage. […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: block, doubt, faith, pandemic, writing

I Got Knocked Down: A Story of Rejections and Hope

December 8, 2015 by Leanne Sowul 6 Comments

The original title of this post, as I planned it on my editorial calendar, was “How to Stay Sane and Keep Writing During The Holidays.” I still think that’s a great title. Problem is, I don’t feel qualified to write it right now. I’ve fallen off my writing horse this past week. I’ve stumbled, and I’m […]

Filed Under: Perspective, Writer's Life Tagged With: agent, doubt, fiction, journaling, novel, pitch, query, short story, writer's block

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