HeyJaredAUTHORiTEA
Craft advice, industry truth, author mental health, and the occasional rant steeped fresh from someone who's been in publishing since 2008.
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Community and Creativity (opens the original)
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I’ve talked about this before on the podcast, but it’s on my heart because of some things I’ve been reading in seminary as well as some things I’ve been experiencing as we get closer to the midterms. I am sure I will talk about this again because it’s one of those topics that I keep coming back to and will never quite leave. Community, as a whole, is of vital and essential importance for humanity. We are creatures of small groups, tribes, and families. While we live in a society that has consist
Why Being Edited Is Hard (opens the original)
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Something a lot of new authors discover quickly is that being edited is painful. We open our freshly edited manuscripts and see changes everywhere, comments in the margins and, depending on the type of the edit, have a multi-page editorial letter to read telling us all the things wrong with our books. Ouch. The fact that this stings is not a surprise, really. Take a moment to feel the feeling of rejection, of imposter syndrome, of all the things that come up for us when we get our books back. Th
Who Do I Trust When There Is No Vetting? (opens the original)
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Man, we’ve all had this experience: we hire someone to do some work for us on our writing/editing and discover suddenly that the person we hired has somehow left our work in worse condition. Or they didn’t do what they claimed they would. I’ve had mentors in my writing career whose advice was wrong, abusive, and they took terrible advantage of me. I trusted them because they had what I thought was sufficient street cred or, alternatively, people I trusted, trusted them. I’ve also had editing cli
Writing While Wrung Dry (opens the original)
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As I sit down to write this today, I am fighting a migraine, body pain, exhaustion, and deadlines for projects that are due. I have a meeting with someone in a few hours that I don’t know if I have the energy for, and I was up late last night working on a paper with someone. My depression is being a bastard, my joints ache, and I just want to lie down and sleep. However, I still have to get the words down. It’s just necessary. Despite how I’m feeling today, I can’t call in sick to a blank page.
What Reorganizing and Cleaning My Office Is Teaching Me (opens the original)
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A brief announcement: As an aside, on September 17th at 5pm Eastern, I am teaching a seminar on short-form video for the EFA. If you’re curious, give it a look! It’ll be $48 for members, $60 for non-members and cover some of the basics of video creation and using the platforms in a way that isn’t intimidating. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GUB9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.a
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