I’ve been having a hard time finishing my current work-in-progress. That’s really begun to bother me in the last few weeks. Granted, enrolling in an advanced degree program of any kind is not necessarily conducive to finishing any non-school-related projects. (I started the second semester of my Master of Arts in Creative Writing program this [...]

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This week I received some feedback on my thought-I-was-so-close-to-being-finished WIP. The feedback pointed out a problem that I knew was there but I was hoping wouldn’t matter. Grrr. Lesson here? Listen to your gut. In this case, I had made certain choices because I was trying to keep my manuscript in the realm of middle-grade [...]

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