Creative Work (is Real Work)
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Adventures in the creative process and the wilds of publishing. Opinion, commiseration, tools, tips, and community.
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About Sara Read
Novelist, nurse, hedonist, mom. Compassionate misanthrope.
GenX-level unfiltered. Join me for the gory details of the creative process and adventures in the wilds of publishing.
Author of Johanna Porter Is Not Sorry and Principles of (E)motion.
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