Writerland, Chapter 23: The Two Worst Storytelling Words
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Writerland is a newsletter from The Delacorte Review whose mission is to help writers tell the stories they need to tell. New year. New start. New story? Oh my. If you are like me and 99 percent of the writers I know, a new story means once again confronting the existential crisis that can suck the joy out of our work: will this be the story that exposes me as a no-talent fraud, an imposter, a failure waiting to happen. (Yes, there is that one in a hundred who wake up, stare into the blank screen or page and think, the world awaits my prose. Yes, you can hate them; you have my permission.)
Writerland, Chapter 23: The Two Worst Storytelling Words
Writerland, Chapter 23: The Two Worst…
Writerland, Chapter 23: The Two Worst Storytelling Words
Writerland is a newsletter from The Delacorte Review whose mission is to help writers tell the stories they need to tell. New year. New start. New story? Oh my. If you are like me and 99 percent of the writers I know, a new story means once again confronting the existential crisis that can suck the joy out of our work: will this be the story that exposes me as a no-talent fraud, an imposter, a failure waiting to happen. (Yes, there is that one in a hundred who wake up, stare into the blank screen or page and think, the world awaits my prose. Yes, you can hate them; you have my permission.)