Category: Writing life
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Surrender Your Dreams
It’s hard to watch someone else live your dream. Maybe it’s a book contract, an agent, an opportunity, a job. It can be so hard to watch someone else get what you’ve longed and strived for. I know—I’ve wrestled with those flashes of envy and the accompanying discouragement. But you are exactly where you are…
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Fight for Your Story
Sometimes the person you have to fight with hardest for your writing is yourself. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my current WIP, it’s how to fight for my writing with myself. A year ago, I was literally *this* close to shelving this project and possibly giving up on writing altogether. I was burned…
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Don’t Let Your Editorial Letter Be Your First Experience with Edits
Last October, I sent in my manuscript for my first professional content edit, and received my editorial letter back in December. Like probably almost every writer, I was scared and nervous about it all. But there’s one thing I did that prepared me for the feedback—and no, it wasn’t eating ice cream and chocolate (believe…
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My Writing Journey
Six years. Thousands upon thousands of words. And the adventure has just begun. What’s not listed among these bullet points? -the numerous short stories and flash fiction pieces I’ve written. -the regular doubts that I was really supposed to be a writer. -the weeks and months spent brainstorming. -the small bouts of burnout. -the general…
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Grab your headphones!
Have you heard? Yes, I’m intending a pun with “heard.” But what is it that you’re supposed to know? That I have a story narrated on the Havok Story Podcast! Ever since I started writing for Havok, I hoped to be featured on the podcast. And to my great honor and surprise, my story “For…
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Conference Thoughts
With summer wrapping up, the season for writing conferences is coming to an end. But as I think over my time at Realm Makers, I have a few thoughts on conferences that I want to share. 1. It won’t be perfect. Every Realm Makers I’ve been to has had its personal ups and downs—imposter syndrome,…
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Realm Makers 2023
This was my fifth year going to the Realm Makers writing conference. For those of you who don’t know, Realm Makers is a Christian speculative fiction writers’ conference. And this year, it was full of timely encouragement in my writing journey. If you want to see all the pictures from my time at Realm Makers,…
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Be Patient and Faithful Where You Are
I used to dream of being published before I graduated high school. Then I dreamed of being published while I was still a teenager. Those dreams have passed. I still dream of having a book published, of course. But I haven’t attached a time frame to that dream. Because writing, editing, and publishing all take…
Hailey Huntington 