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– how to get momentum back into your writing
– what does a draft mean? How best to approach re-drafting?
– how to approach writing/Dream Author if you feel there’s not enough time left?
– how to recover from a disappointing first publishing experience
– when can/should you feel joy, as a writer, and when is it not required?
– should you set a more ‘realistic’ impossible Dream Goal?
– what to do about busybody neighbours who make you furious
– does it matter if publication of your book is delayed by a year? And what to do in the meantime…
– should you write the next book in your series even if your editor doesn’t want it/should you fire your agent if they keep failing to find out whether your editor wants it or not?!
– is it okay to take a long break from a difficult novel and write other things first, before going back to it?
– how to approach a brainstorming and pitching session with a new editor without anxiety or dread.

“The experience of having a book rejected and then realising later that you wouldn’t have wanted to put it out there as your first published book anyway… that’s a really valuable experience. It enabled you to practise failing, practise feeling the painful feelings that come with disappointing results, and learn that actually events ended up working in your favour despite the pain – because you wouldn’t ultimately have wanted that book to be published. So, you learned how to take your writing to the next level and (although there was some pain) nothing actually went wrong. In this way, we can learn to associate pain and disappointing results (which are always part of any writer’s life, no matter how high-earning or bestselling they are!) with exactly what needs to be happening in order to get us to the next level of our writing lives/selves, rather than (as most people do) with something having gone wrong.”