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What To Do When You Fail

Thoughts on falling short in writing. It's how we grow.

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John Wiswell
Dec 08, 2023
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Hey, it’s December! Year’s Best lists are dropping, and National Novel Writing Month is over. Congratulations if you wrote a novel in November, or if you wrote 50,000 words of one. Congratulations if you wrote anything in November, or anything during this entire year.

If you think you’re a failure as a writer because you didn’t write the Great American N…

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