HeyJaredAnxious with Jesus
Writing from the messy intersection of faith and clinical anxiety, but also, doing English-teachery things like contemplating "life and love and why."
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I didn’t break even at the book festival. And it was beautiful. (opens the original)
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It’s better to think,17 people will be touched by my bookthan it is to think,I sold 17 books.This occurred to me yesterday as I drove home from tabling all day at the KPBS book festival down here in San Diego. On one hand, 17 sales in a day is waaaay more than I’ve sold online in the last few months. On the other hand, 17 wasn’t enough to break even given the $250 fee for my half-booth. That would really suck if I were a career author, but that’s not what I’m trying to do. While I’m realizing mo
Apparently I'm celebrating one year as an author by telling you about the time I cried at a writers conference. (opens the original)
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Words are hard. (opens the original)
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My therapist told me to write this. (opens the original)
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