Lately, I’ve been journaling before bed, and it’s been doing WONDERS for my mental health. I thought I’d share some of the prompts I’ve been using that have helped me shift my mindset.You won’t believe what a difference 15-30 minutes of writing can make to improve your mindset! Below are a few prompts to get…
Questions Made Famous by Marcel Proust – Self-published Author Edition
What is your idea of perfect happiness? Completing my last proof of my manuscript and submitting it for approval. What is your greatest fear? Finding typos in my work after publishing it. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Not being confident enough in my work. What is the trait you most deplore…
Self-Publishing Manifesto
As a citizen of the digital publishing world, I have created a list of six principles that reflect what I believe about self-publishing and what I want to believe/manifest about self-publishing. Here is my self-publishing manifesto:
10 Books on Self-Publishing if You’re an Interested Beginner
I want to start by saying that no, I have not read every one of these books. In a way, this blog post serves as a reading list for me, too! Here are some books that I have come across in my research on the process of self-publishing. They cover topics ranging from why you…
5 Things You Need to Know Before Self-Publishing
Most of my early days writing my first self-published poetry collection involved printing out the poems I was working on and taking a pen to them. I’d do this a thousand times in a single week. The finalized poems would be completely different from the originals and better. Spending time with your writing is incredibly…
Why the Self-Publishing Stigma Needs to Go
You might have thought about self-publishing before, but something stops you from going through with it. Do you know why? Well, it might have to do with the nasty stigma circling self-publishing and self-published authors. This post will discuss why the stigma surrounding self-publishing is fruitless. And hopefully, over time, people will come to fully…
Hello blogging world!
This is my very first blog post. I’m excited! My name is Emily Curtis, and I’m a writer. I’ve considered myself a writer since high school. But to be truthful, I’m not always writing for pleasure. And that’s okay. Things change. You get busy, and you forget. And writers block is way too real. However,…
Here’s How I Realized Self-Publishing was an Option for Me
I was a junior in high school. The summer before school started, I had been reading a LOT of poetry–and writing a little too. So, I decided to take a Poetry Independent Study with one of my favorite high school English teachers, focusing on reading and analyzing poems. Just me, my teacher, and a big…