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4 Signs You're No Longer A Beginning Writer

4 Signs You’re No Longer A Beginning Writer

On August 23, 2019November 19, 2021 By K.M. Allan31 Comments

When you decide to be a writer, you've got to start somewhere. That somewhere usually includes a place where you have no idea what you're doing, hate everything you write, don't feel as if you're a writer—let alone a good one, and someone who feels like it's a constant struggle to even get words down on the page. …

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Signs You're Afraid of Finishing Your Manuscript

Signs You’re Afraid of Finishing Your Manuscript

On January 25, 2019 By K.M. Allan40 Comments

Every writer has either a desk drawer or a folder on their computer with a manuscript they started but never quite completed. It might be because the idea was only good for two chapters, they could never dig their way out of a major plot hole, or life became more important than writing the final …

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K.M. Allan

K.M. Allan

YA writer and blogger. Author of The Blackbirch Series, The Beginning, The Dark Half, and The Ritual (books 1, 2 & 3) are out now! I'm also an identical twin, but not the evil one.

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