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Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 4.3.24

Words for writers from Virginia Woolf

 

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Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 3.27.24

Words for writers from Nadine Gordimer

 

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Getting It Together Before You’re Gone: Estate Planning Tips for Authors and Freelancers

Tips for estate planning to make it easy on your heirs

Photo by Robert Eklund on Unsplash

Have you thought about what your heirs or executors need to know about your writing business when you’re no longer around, when the fickle finger of Fate hits the delete key and you vanish into the vast unknown?

I have always considered myself a fairly proactive person, someone who plans for the future and has everything organized to make it easier for those left behind.

But when I was reviewing my will and...

Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 3.20.24

Words for writers from Ann Patchett

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Some backstory about FINDING FRAN

Want to know how my latest novel, FINDING FRAN, came to be?
My interview on Gillian Felix’s Plain Talk Book Marketing gives you some behind-the-scenes insights!

And don't miss my FINDING FRAN book trailer, live on my Midlife Moxie Novel Series YouTube channel!

The FINDING FRAN eBook is now available, or if you prefer paperback, preorder it now and get it on May 24th! Sales links here: https://www.nancychristie.com/midlife....

Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 3.13.24

Words for writers from Molly Giles

 

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Thoughts on writing and life for March 2024

Just a few thoughts on why we have to believe that our creativity, like a barren garden bed, can produce results.

This is an edited excerpt from my March 2024 newsletter, The Writing Life. (Subscribe here.)

You can also listen to it on my Living the Writing Life podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.

Lately I’ve been reading Monty Don’s The Complete Gardener and found myself thinking of having a garden again.

Perhaps it was the warmer weather—or at least, warm for February and March in Ohio...

Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 3.6.24

Words for writers from Rosellen Brown

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Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 2.28.24

Words for writers from Joyce Carol Oates

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Thoughts on writing and life for February 2024

Just a few thoughts on why we shouldn’t let milestone birthdays stop us from pursuing our creative goals.

This is an edited excerpt from my January 2024 newsletter, The Writing Life. (Subscribe here.)

You can also listen to it on my Living the Writing Life podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.

A few weeks ago, I found myself singing the “Milestone Birthday Blues.” Everybody has one of those birthdays—the ones where the number stops you dead in your tracks and you look in the mirror and ask...