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How to Stay Miserable as a Writer (opens the original)
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What if some of the things making you miserable as a writer are actually habits you've picked up along the way? In this episode of the Books & Such Literary Podcast, Barb Roose, Jen Babakhan, and Cynthia Ruchti have a candid (and slightly cheeky) conversation about four common habits that can make the writing journey harder than it needs to be. This episode covers: Taking rejection and critique personally and you'll be encouraged to remember that your identity is not your manuscript. Assuming th
Lights,Camera,Query: Movie Quotes that Inspire Your Writing Life (opens the original)
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We spend a lot of time on our Books & Such podcast talking about craft, proposals, platform, and all the serious things and all of that matters. But this month, we're having a little fun. Host and Literary Agent, Jen Babakhan is joined by three Books & Such Literary Management agents, Barb Roose, Cynthia Ruchti, and Debbie Alsdorf for a conversation about movie quotes that could have been written about publishing. Because sometimes a single line from a movie captures something about this industr
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