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How Do You Know Your Book Is Done?
Not when you've written a certain number of pages.
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Why Starting a Book Feels Impossible
And why it might already be started.
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Stop Serving Your Audience. Start Serving Your Book.
The quiet shift that changes everything
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The Wonder of 100 Empty Pages
How blankness reveals what’s already here.
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This Post Is NOT for Aspiring Authors
It’s for the ones who write, quietly, occasionally, without pressure.
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Writing Happens As the Shadow of Being Alive
You never need a reason. Just a moment.
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5 Redefinitions of a Book
If you think you’re writing a book, you’re probably not. And that’s a good thing.
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Writing isn't self-expression. It’s self-excavation.
Letting the self fall away, one sentence at a time.
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Why You’re Still Not Writing
You’ve done everything right, except disappear.
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Why Writing a Book Will Always Be a Fairy Tale
And still, we write them.
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Your Book Could Be Half As Long
And it would probably be twice as clear.
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How the Author Dissolves, Book by Book
Not through mastery, but through the quiet falling away of what was never needed.
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