HeyJaredJessica Berg
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 24, 2026
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- Jul 16, 2026
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Agent in Your Pocket: Not Every Book Is The One (opens the original)
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A writer emailed me last month about a manuscript she'd been revising for nine years. She called it the book of her heart. In the same paragraph she said that if it didn’t sell, she was done writing. I wanted to both encourage her but discourage her at the same time, because those two sentences are a big problem. The thing I know to be true is careers are built out of so many books while writers are built from one or two experiences in the trad space. Take Madeline Martin as an example. Long bef
Agent in Your Pocket: Are You Editing Yourself or Editing Your Book? (opens the original)
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Are You Editing Yourself or Editing Your Book? Before we can decide that we need to sort out some definitions. When you’re editing the book, you’re doing so in service of the manuscript. That means you’re doing your best to make the prose work well on the page. On the other hand, editing yourself means that you’re revising out of fear or self-doubt. You’re worried that your choices (which make the books yours) are going to make it stick out for the wrong reasons. One is a craft judgment and the
Agent in Your Pocket: We’re Mislabeling Burnout (opens the original)
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It’s not laziness. We’re just calling it that. It’s unclear to me when we started equating burnout with having a discipline problem. As if you’re burned out on a project because you suddenly became lazy, stopped caring, or somehow lost your work ethic. When identity is wired to output, there’s no room to rest without it feeling like a moral failure. So you keep pushing far beyond your point of actual capacity because stopping doesn’t feel like you’re taking a break. It feels like you’re losing y
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