This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 513th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors podcast.

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Anyway with all that said I hope you particularly enjoy this

week's episode seven misconceptions about being a writer. Like any good story, the

writing life is a tale of deceptive depth.

At first glance, it offers up a shiny, artsy, fun cover,

become a writer, its title beckons, and its first chapters lure us in by

fulfilling all these initial promises. But the deeper we get, the further we we go the more we realize there's more to this story than meets the eye

There's more adventure more conflict more drama and more comedy than we could ever have realized.

In short, there are many different misconceptions

about being a writer.

At the beginning of the year, I rereading my old journals starting from when I was 14

because at some point I got embarrassed and burnt everything prior to that.

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