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Battling Discouragement in Writing

June 2, 2023 | by Mary Hamilton| in confidence, Writing

Tasked with writing our organization’s monthly newsletter, I submitted my first month’s draft for my supervisor’s approval. She took out her red pen and proceeded to slash and burn my draft—crossing out, circling, drawing arrows, writing in… I left her office fighting tears and thinking, "Why doesn’t she just write it herself?"

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Life Critique

January 26, 2013 | by Mary Hamilton| in Uncategorized, Writing

Would you continue to meet regularly with a group of people who criticized your work and pointed out flaws in your thinking, then told you how to improve? Welcome to a writer’s critique group. Few, if any, writers make it into print without submitting to this refining process. When I first visited a local critique …

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