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ISSUE #42
November 1, 2022
Welcome to November!
When I started taking writing seriously over three years ago, I did something I rarely do — lept without a plan.
Jumping in with no plan came out of a feeling of desperation to make money from home and a sense of being sick of myself. Sick of not taking a chance on something that scared me.
Sick of staying small.
Instead of taking a bunch of classes or hiring someone to read and rework my writing until it was near perfect but lacking in personality, I just wrote and published non-stop for three years. This is the best way to get practice, and thanks to the internet, there are plenty of places to write publicly. Substack is just one.
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