How I Quit My Job And Finally Wrote That Novel

The steps and missteps one person took to achieve a dream, and how you can make it work, too. The steps and missteps one person took to achieve a dream, and how you can make it work, too.It's often been said that everyone has one novel in them—and the thing that separates novelists from everyone else is that they have multiple novels in them. That, and novelists are willing to sacrifice their time, social life, and often part of their sanity to put their words to the page. But as I've found, it's not just sacrifice a novelist must embrace to write that novel and get it published.Read Full Story Continue reading at 'Fast Company'

[ Fast Company | 2016-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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