Your Writing Matters : How to Banish Self-Doubt, Trust Yourself, and Go the Distance

Lingvo: English

Eldonita je 26-a de decembro 2021 de Midchannel Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-9990991-4-8

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Does your future as a writer feel uncertain?

You write day after day. You dream of bestseller’s lists and royalty checks, but despite your best marketing efforts, those dreams remain out of reach.

You wonder if you’re wasting your time. Does your writing even matter?

Author Colleen M. Story, a long-time professional writer and writing coach, helps you decide whether you truly have a writer’s DNA. She examines why you feel pressured to make money with your work, why the search for a readership is both motivating and discouraging, and why it’s so common to doubt yourself along the way.

Step by step, you’ll gain a clear-eyed view at the challenges a writer faces in the outside world, while taking your own journey inward to discover what writing really means to you.

Should you continue on this path, or adjust your course now before it’s too late? Don’t waste your …

Does your future as a writer feel uncertain?

You write day after day. You dream of bestseller’s lists and royalty checks, but despite your best marketing efforts, those dreams remain out of reach.

You wonder if you’re wasting your time. Does your writing even matter?

Author Colleen M. Story, a long-time professional writer and writing coach, helps you decide whether you truly have a writer’s DNA. She examines why you feel pressured to make money with your work, why the search for a readership is both motivating and discouraging, and why it’s so common to doubt yourself along the way.

Step by step, you’ll gain a clear-eyed view at the challenges a writer faces in the outside world, while taking your own journey inward to discover what writing really means to you.

Should you continue on this path, or adjust your course now before it’s too late? Don’t waste your precious time in indecision. Let Your Writing Matters guide you to your truth and you’ll never look back again.

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Stephanie Jane recenzis Your Writing Matters : How to Banish Self-Doubt, Trust Yourself, and Go the Distance de Colleen M. Story

A thoughtfully introspective book

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I was eager to read a copy of Your Writing Matters by Colleen M Story because I so much appreciated the advice in her previous self help book for authors, Writer Get Noticed! While I didn't come away from reading Your Writing Matters feeling quite so fired up and enthusiastic, this new book has certainly got me thinking deeply about my own writing motivations and the kind of writing I am keen to undertake in the future. Story delves deeply into the psychological aspects that drive writers to create their stories, characters and even whole worlds. I found the variety of scientific and sociological studies she quoted to be particularly interesting, especially when their conclusions didn't follow what would seem to be the most obvious line. Story concludes each of her sections with a question and answer exercise so that readers can immediately apply the theories she has just discussed …

I was eager to read a copy of Your Writing Matters by Colleen M Story because I so much appreciated the advice in her previous self help book for authors, Writer Get Noticed! While I didn't come away from reading Your Writing Matters feeling quite so fired up and enthusiastic, this new book has certainly got me thinking deeply about my own writing motivations and the kind of writing I am keen to undertake in the future. Story delves deeply into the psychological aspects that drive writers to create their stories, characters and even whole worlds. I found the variety of scientific and sociological studies she quoted to be particularly interesting, especially when their conclusions didn't follow what would seem to be the most obvious line. Story concludes each of her sections with a question and answer exercise so that readers can immediately apply the theories she has just discussed to their own writing journey. This was very useful for me because I could use the time to reflect on how these subjects directly affected me.

Your Writing Matters is a thoughtfully introspective book. It is primarily focused on fiction authors who dream of actually getting their work out to a significant audience but, as a nonfiction author and blogger, I also found it useful and I think it could also be motivational to writers who only ever intend to keep their creations to themselves. Chapter themes overlap so I did notice some repetition of ideas, but overall this was useful for reinforcing the points that Story makes. I was most intrigued by the discussion around the mental and physical health benefits of a daily writing habit just for the sake of it. I hadn't really considered this before, but I certainly value my daily blogging ritual and notice my mood lowering on the rare days I miss out.

I think Your Writing Matters will be a valuable resource for writers temporarily heading into writing doldrums and also for those of us who question the validity of what we do, especially when we are persuaded to view our writing from external perspectives. As Story demonstrates within this book, there's many more reasons to keep on writing than there are to be discouraged.