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TODAY I'LL READ the final essay in David Sedaris's newest collection, The Land and Its People. I'm looking forward to reading it...and putting it off for the same reason: it's the last one. When I finish it, I'll have fi...

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FOR ABOUT SEVEN YEARS, I researched a novel I was writing.

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HOW MUCH PROOF does a woman need before she can stop becoming a writer and just be one?

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I RECENTLY WROTE AN ESSAY for my fiction-author website called What I Couldn't See About Home. It began with a conversation about historical research and ended somewhere I hadn't expected, with me examining a story I'd b...

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Happy National Quitters Day!

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Yesterday I wrote a little something online and I talked about how successful businesses use OND (October, November, December) to plan ahead—not to wait until January to figure things out. I was using business as an anal...

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Being visible is part of entrepreneurship. For some, showing up, posting, sharing, speaking, or presenting is simply that. A natural part of growth. Just another box to check.

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It Can Look Like This:

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To my lovely, brilliant friend who shrinks instead of shines when it comes to her big dreams,

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