One of my absolute favourite things to do as a writer is attend writing events. There is something in the air that calls to me (it’s possible it’s the collective inner hum of imposter syndrome that everyone talks about, but let’s imagine for a moment it’s not!) As a burgeoning writer, working hard to develop my skills and learn all I can about the industry, writing festivals in particular are a treasure trove of information…
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When you get into this business of writing, people always talk about how difficult it is to get published. Truth be told, this is a conversation that happens all around you before you even begin to so much as think about trying to get some writing published. So it’s not as though you go into things blind to the challenges ahead. Yet, for all that people go on about the difficulties – the countless rejections that leave you heartbroken (if you’re anything like me anyway), the constant battle to get your work in front of someone willing to give it some time to be read, the vicious catch-22 where you need to be published to have some work looked at, but you can’t get work published if no one will look at it. It’s an industry that almost seems as though it has been designed to be especially difficult. Which, in a way, makes a certain kind of sense, because surely readers what to have quality writing to read.
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Until recently, this was a phrase I had never heard used aloud before, let alone considered for myself. After all, it has only been in the past few months that I've really started to allow myself to consider that I am a legitimate 'writer'. That I might focus on this passion so much that I could potentially turn it into a viable business option was definitely something I had daydreamed about, had imagined that moment that I would see my name in print alongside a piece of writing I was infinitely proud of (perhaps even that novel that I've been working on for so many years now). Yet I had never taken any actual steps to put the daydreams of a business into motion, so I certainly hadn't considered the part where I would need to develop some kind of personal brand of my own.
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