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Liz Medford - lizexplores.com's avatar

TRUTH: “Don’t lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith. Be true blue. You are a writer because you write. Keep writing and quit your bitching. Your book has a birthday. You don’t know what it is yet.”

Thank you for all the insights you shared with your younger self, Cheryl, but especially for this one. I’m in my early stages of calling myself a writer (I started my Substack blog because of you!). My audience is small but growing, and every time I write something and share it, someone new finds me. Someday it will turn into the book I’ve always dreamed of writing. I will remember your words, and I’ll keep writing and quit my bitching! 😉

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Dana Leigh Lyons's avatar

This essay captures—more than anything I know how to articulate—what I long to read, how I aspire to write, and why I spend time on Substack. Just, thank you.

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