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When a Friend Criticizes Your Writing
May 20, 2019May 1, 2021 Kelsey Horton

When a Friend Criticizes Your Writing

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Three Steps to Find Your Voice
November 5, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Three Steps to Find Your Voice

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Have you ever scrambled around trying to find your glasses, only to realize twenty minutes later they were perched on your head the whole time?

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September 10, 2018July 30, 2019 Kelsey Horton

You Don’t Have To Blow Their Minds

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“I have written 11 books but each time I think ‘Uh-oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody, and they’re

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Seven Books I’m Loving Lately
August 27, 2018October 29, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Seven Books I’m Loving Lately

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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be

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Curious and Positive: Taking the Pressure Off Your Future
June 9, 2018October 29, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Curious and Positive: Taking the Pressure Off Your Future

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Do you ever feel like your arms are being stretched in two directions, caught in a tug of war between worlds? Like you used to

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March 23, 2018October 29, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Your Art Is Not Meant For Everybody

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Your art is not meant for everybody. Some people just aren’t going to like it. And the sooner you can accept this + embody this

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Back to Our Roots
February 26, 2018October 29, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Back to Our Roots

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“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” ~ Edgar Degas   My very first blog post was the best

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October 26, 2017October 29, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Start Before You Know Your Target Market

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“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the

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Listen To Your Impulses
September 1, 2016October 29, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Listen To Your Impulses

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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.” ~Sylvia Plath   Epiphanies. Insights.

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May 17, 2016October 29, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Taking Our Talents Seriously

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“What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it

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February 1, 2016October 29, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Robot Coconut Trees: A Creative Timeline of My First Book

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Every creative project has a backstory, a truth behind the curtain, a core reality that deviates from the flashy final product we see at the

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October 5, 2015October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Let It Be

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  Let it be easy. Let it happen slower than you wanted, let it frustrate you, let the existential realizations hit you in the produce

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January 13, 2015October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

My Liebster Award and Shining the Light on Others

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Rachel Stolzman (an amazing writer at rachelstolzman.wordpress.com and author of The Sign for Drowning) nominated my blog for a “Liebster Award.” I didn’t even know

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September 23, 2014October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

A Prayer for Writers

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By Kelsey Horton   May you remember that there is no perfect word — just like there is no perfect boyfriend, no perfect eyelash, no

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August 7, 2014October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

For Writers Who Don’t Know What to Write About

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“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” – Andy Warhol   My blog has been frozen in

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April 22, 2014October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Don’t Think: When Writer’s Block Meets Self Doubt

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I have dozens of half-written blog posts that linger on my computer, posts on beautiful topics like post-graduation devastation, the insecurities that emerge in our

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December 2, 2013October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

So You Feel Called to Write: A Compassionate Creative Manifesto

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“I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.” – Mary Oliver I have spent

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February 26, 2013October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Empowered Creativity

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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The

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October 24, 2012October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Help Me Write a Memoir!

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Hello beloveds,   I have severely neglected my posting on my blog — however, I have several half-written posts that I am looking to beef

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September 3, 2012October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

Because We Love It

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“I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time

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August 1, 2012October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

On Writing

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“When I write, I feel like an armless legless man with a crayon in his mouth.” – Kurt Vonnegut   On my daily and nightly

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July 15, 2012October 26, 2018 Kelsey Horton

When You’re Holding onto Me

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“Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can’t see the tiny outstretched

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