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Guest Post: Janni Lee Simner on Setbacks & The Writing Journey

Guest Post: Janni Lee Simner on Setbacks & The Writing Journey

Posted on December 12, 2017January 4, 2019

By Janni Lee Simner

In writing, as in many professions, there’s a lot of emphasis on getting that one big break.

This is the story we tell about writers: that we slave away for months or years or decades and then—at last!—that first story or first novel sells. Our career is launched,

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