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A Year of Writing Dangerously

Posted on September 22, 2017 by Abigail Welborn

OK, I don’t know that my writing qualifies as dangerous, but it has been a year since I started this crazy experiment of being a full-time author. It’s been a while since I did a retrospective, so now seems like a good time! When I quit my day job, my counselor warned me that for…

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Motivation I Didn’t Know I Had

Posted on October 16, 2016October 16, 2016 by Abigail Welborn

I’m starting my fourth week of writing full-time. Fourth! Wow. As expected, I’ve had some days where it’s hard to get into the “groove” of writing, and some days where I didn’t manage my time well. I’ve also had some amazing days where I don’t want to stop writing. One benefit of writing full-time that…

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Being a Full-Time Author: First Week Retrospective

Posted on September 30, 2016October 16, 2016 by Abigail Welborn

Looking back over the past week is a habit widely recommended for evaluating progress and productivity. In my past life as a software developer, we called them “retrospectives,” and along with listing successes and problems (or “opportunities,” as my husband says), we would come up with one experiment we wanted to try for the upcoming…

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