Book Tour ~Your Writing Matters by Colleen M. Story

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Join us for this tour from June 7 to June 28, 2021!

Book Details:

Book Title:  Your Writing Matters: How to Banish Self-Doubt, Trust Yourself, and Go the Distance by Colleen M. Story
Category:  Adult Non-Fiction (18+),  260 pages
Genre: Non-fiction Writing/Publishing
Publisher:  Midchannel Press
Release date:  July 2021
Content Rating: G

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Book Description:

Does your future as a writer feel uncertain?

You write day after day. You dream of bestseller’s lists and royalty checks, but despite your best marketing efforts, those dreams remain out of reach.

You wonder if you’re wasting your time. Does your writing even matter?

Author Colleen M. Story, a long-time professional writer and writing coach, helps you decide whether you truly have a writer’s DNA. She examines why you feel pressured to make money with your work, why the search for a readership is both motivating and discouraging, and why it’s so common to doubt yourself along the way.

Step by step, you’ll gain a clear-eyed view at the challenges a writer faces in the outside world, while taking your own journey inward to discover what writing really means to you.

Should you continue on this path, or adjust your course now before it’s too late? Don’t waste your precious time in indecision. Let Your Writing Matters guide you to your truth and you’ll
never look back again.  

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Excerpt

Book Excerpt from Chapter 1

 Perhaps one of the most torturous questions in a writer’s life is, “Should I be doing this?” Learning how to write well is difficult enough without adding the pain of indecision. Yet that’s what most of us endure—and for some of us, it can last for years.

For my first full decade of writing stories, I questioned whether I was wasting my time. There was no outward indication that I should be a writer. Teachers had praised my writing in the past, but no one had ever told me I should consider “being” a writer. I had started writing stories on a whim, feeling a strong urge to do so after graduating from college. But despite garnering some early publications and landing a full-time writing job, I still wondered if I had the talent to be a novelist . . . or if I was wasting my time.

Part of my indecision stemmed from failing to get a publishing contract early on. Another part of it was rooted in my own self-doubt about any talent I possessed. The feedback I received on submissions to editors, magazines, and contests didn’t always help either, since some of it was positive and some, negative.

Like many writers, I went back and forth for years, sometimes thinking I could do this and other times thinking I would never reach my goals and that my writing didn’t matter anyway. In the middle of it all was indecision—a difficult state of mind you may be experiencing right now.

How Indecision Can Be Painful for a Writer

Writing while remaining unsure about whether you should be writing is like riding a bicycle while dragging a 100-pound block of lead. The weight of indecision not only interferes with the act of writing. It’s also the source of a never-ending supply of chronic stress and psychological suffering.

When you’re not sure if you’re a real writer, every writing session is tainted with insecurity, guilt, and tentativeness. You’re not sure if writing is the best use of your time. Before every session, you wonder about doing something more useful. Maybe you tend to other duties first because you’re not earning anything from writing, so how important can it be? Perhaps even if you do write, you may feel guilty for wasting time you could have been doing something more rewarding like enjoying the afternoon with your partner, children, or even your dog.

The urge to write, coupled with this sort of guilt, results in a lasting state of stress and pain. The internal push and pull it creates can affect you for years and hold you back from reaching your full potential, as many now-successful writers can confirm.

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