We hear from two writers today who suffer from some pretty common obstacles when it comes to what holds them back from their writing. The first talks about her submission anxiety, a fear of both failure and success. The second wonders how she can write character-driven prose instead of plot-driven prose that pushes her characters into unlikely scenarios. We’ve got writers and performers Liesl Swogger and Kathleen Flynn to help us out.
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Liesl Swogger is a graduate of Novel Incubator, with a new pretend deadline of March for her current revision of her novel, A Single Season. Her novel is based in part on her own experience in the world of ballet.
Kathleen Flynn is a classical singer, educator at Berklee College of Music and Tufts University, and an alumna of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program.
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Submission Anxiety & Character Development with Liesl Swogger and Kathleen Flynn