Part 3: Daydreaming for Encouragement. If daydreaming for ideas is the writer’s bread and butter, daydreaming for encouragement is the writer’s heartbeat. If a writer loses heart, the ideas won’t matter. The writer quits. If you want to be a published writer, your daydreams for seeing your book on the shelves will have to sustain [...]

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Last week my family was on vacation. We go to the same place in British Columbia every summer to visit family. (Note the picture of me trying to see my laptop screen while I try to pick up a wi-fi signal.)   We are such a bookish family; we always come home with more books. [...]

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