HeyJaredWrite It Anyway
Craft struggles, publishing highs and lows, and what keeps me going when things get tough (which is often)—and how to keep writing anyway.
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The time I queried before I was ready (opens the original)
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September always feels like a fresh start. I still carry that childhood sense of starting a new school year and fall being a reset. September is also the month when, two years ago, I started querying far too soon. I’d left my agent four months prior and, while I was nervous to jump back into the query trenches, I was excited, too. After all, lots of people had told me I’d have an easier time this go-around!To that, I say: thank you for believing in me, but LOL. For some background, I was publish
I forgot writing was supposed to be fun (opens the original)
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I’ll be honest—I didn’t feel like writing a newsletter this month. I didn’t feel like I had anything to say, or anything important going on, especially when it came to writing. Summer is a slow time, and for me, it’s also been a stressful one. It makes sense why I hardly wrote at all in July.But now that things have calmed down, I really wanted to get back to my manuscript. I started it at the end of May and have been writing in fits and starts while querying, managing my day job, and dealing wi
The waiting is the hardest part (opens the original)
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Thank you to everyone who’s reached out to me about my last newsletter. It was a vulnerable topic, but I received comments, emails, and DMs from plenty of people who could relate, and the post is still finding people a month later. To see that piece connect with others has been deeply meaningful to me.A lot of the time, I feel like I’m screaming into the void every time I put something on the internet—whether it’s a Substack newsletter, an Instagram post, a Threads post, etc.—and most of the tim
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