Category: Motivation Monday
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Making friends with my inner critic
The following is an excerpt from Kerry Crisley’s 6/20 guest blog post for Westveil Publishing. I’ve always wanted to write a novel. During college, as I churned my way through literature essay after literature essay en route to an English degree, I kept thinking someday I want to write a novel. But the story didn’t come. […]
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Books that make me want to be a better writer
Every Monday, Kerry Crisley shares passages from books that inspire her. Serendipity is an interesting thing. If some anonymous person hadn’t abandoned a copy of Nick Hornby’s Juliet, Naked in an airplane seat pocket, and if the next person to sit in that seat wasn’t a fabulous lifelong friend who picked it up, read it […]
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Books that make me want to be a better writer
Every Monday, Kerry Crisley shares passages from books that inspire her. I was reader long (LONG!) before I was a writer. Now that I’ve published my first novel and started working on my second, I read with the added filter of “author.” Sometimes I read something so clever and engaging that I’m irrationally jealous that […]