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Author offers concrete tips for aspiring writers: routines, journals, writing groups and markets
3426319 · May 21, 2025
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Summary
Jeanette advised aspiring writers to keep daily free-writing journals, join critique groups, treat magazines as entry points, and protect morning writing time from interruptions.
At a Missoula talk, Jeanette shared practical, experience-based advice for writers trying to publish, stressing daily free writing, critique groups and realistic expectations about markets and rights.
"How many of y'all keep journals? Any of you?" she asked rhetorically before describing her own routine: she writes free for 10–15 minutes each morning, prints the week's…
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