Give Yourself Permission to Suck: A Writer's Long Road to Publishing with Russell Anders
Russell Anders has been telling stories since he was four years old, interrupting his mother's bedtime reading to ask "Then what happened?" After a decade spent finishing a manuscript that publishers praised but never bought, he let it go, restarted, and finally received an offer letter a year later, with a new approach: give yourself permission to suck, you can always fix it later.
In this episode, Russell shares what it was like receiving universal praise for a book no one wanted to publish, the moment he realized studying writing less and simply writing more was the missing piece, and why…
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