I’m so grateful for the Pitch Wars community and my mentorship with them in 2019! For those unfamiliar, Pitch Wars was a mentoring program where published/agented authors, editors, or industry interns chose one writer each, read their entire manuscript, and offered suggestions on how to make the manuscript shine for an agent showcase. The mentor also…
Comments closedAbout five years ago, I did the first public reading of my non-academic writing. I was a 40-something-year-old physician, and I was terrified. It was at a narrative medicine event, and I’d been selected to read one of my personal essays. A few days earlier, an experienced performer had given me some pointers. Identified which…
Comments closedIt’s Okay Not To Write Every Day Many people are proponents of writing consistently every day and setting goals. For example, 1000 words a day. But what if you can’t write every day. If you have a demanding day job or a busy family, or maybe, I don’t know, you just don’t like writing every…
Comments closedIn one word, humbling. I am 49 years old, and my first novel, a speculative thriller called The Algorithm Will See You Now, published on 3/2/2023. I started writing it when I was 43. When I was 46, I ventured into the online writing world, mainly via Twitter. A social media newbie (I know, I know,…
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