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September 2025
READERS DON’T WANT POLISH.
THEY WANT YOU
Have you ever been told that you should write your life story – or a
part of your life story? Or perhaps you were/are really good at
making up bedtime stories for your children and have toyed with the
idea of writing them down and seeing if you can get them published?
If your answer to either of those is yes, I’m willing to bet that, for
most of you, your next thought was something like: I couldn’t
possibly produce enough words to make an entire book!
I get it. That was me (and still is to a certain extent).
THERE’S MORE STORY
IN YOU THAN YOU
THINK...
The first novel I wrote started out as a 2,000-word
short story. My writing coach at the time said,
