Ask the Author: Rebecca Winn
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Rebecca Winn
Hi, I am sorry to hear about the demise of your marriage, but am so glad you are finding some comfort and connection with my book. As a memoir, you are right, it is my story, but as you will find toward the end, there is great healing to be found on the other side of your pain.
I wish you the best of luck, and congratulations on your daughter's wedding.
~Rebecca
I wish you the best of luck, and congratulations on your daughter's wedding.
~Rebecca
Rebecca Winn
Believe in yourself... carefully and honestly. It is as important to be a good self-editor and self-critic as it is to be a good writer. Learn to discern the difference between your inner editor who has extremely high standards, and your inner mean girl. That mean girl is a practiced mimic. But the inner critic who has extremely high standards knows when your writing is good, and when it needs work. She will tell you when something is great. The mean girl never will.
Rebecca Winn
I don't really experience writer's block, per se. But I deal with extreme anxiety that can be pretty debilitating and ultimately, is effectively the same thing. When it's really bad (as it was in the weeks before the first draft for One Hundred Daffodils was due), I increase my hot yoga practice; take epsom salt baths (sometimes multiple ones a day); I go to EMDR therapy and Network chiropractic.
Rebecca Winn
For me, the best thing about being a writer is having the opportunity to touch the lives of people I will likely never meet. It is a moving, humbling responsibility for which I am very grateful.
Rebecca Winn
Lothlórien or Rivendell, and there I would remain.
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