Easily, the biggest emotional challenge of being a writer is the rejection. No one likes rejection, no matter the circumstance, but with creative arts such as writing, it is unavoidable and painfully frequent. It’s Hard Not to Take Rejections Personally Since falling back in to writing in 2014, I’ve queriedContinue Reading

Hands down, rejection and self-doubt have been my biggest emotional challenges. Of course, those are intertwined. The more rejections I get, the more self-doubt I experience. Writing is so full of rejection –after probably 80 queries I finally found an agent, but then the agent queried 25 editors and receivedContinue Reading

I’d say my biggest emotional challenge started for me after I wrote my first novel. I sat at my computer staring into the illuminated screen and said, “Now what?” At first, I hadn’t a clue about self-publishing or traditional publishing. I researched and tried to wrap my head around theContinue Reading