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“The One Tool All Writers Need…” on DIY MFA

March 8, 2016 by Leanne Sowul 2 Comments

Hi everyone! I wanted to share the link to my most recent column over at DIY MFA: The One Tool All Writers Need This is a subject I was contemplating earlier this month, as I received rejections (or silence) from literary agents and from short story publishers. Rejections are not only common when you’re writing, they’re […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: agent, diymfa, perspective, query, rejection

Little Steps Defeat Big Fears

July 7, 2014 by Leanne Sowul 2 Comments

Fear is a big, mysterious concept. We know it when we feel it, but we find it hard to explain where it comes from. (In that way, fear is a lot like bravery, another indefinable force that I wrote about in a guest post for the Female Yoda.) Fear can often be crippling; it has a […]

Filed Under: Self Improvement Tagged With: fear, humor, introvert, mistakes, rejection

Writer’s Un-Block

March 14, 2014 by Leanne Sowul 1 Comment

I don’t believe in writer’s block. Really, I don’t. But I do believe in bad writing, and that’s what I’ve been doing for the past few days. I’ve started two different posts to publish today, and I don’t think either of them are good enough to finish. And they were book reviews, which aren’t the […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: agent, blog, editing, novel, post, publish, rejection, short story, writing

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