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Let It Go

Your book, not the song

Kate McKean
Nov 21, 2019
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Hi Friends,

One of the (many) suggestions I make to writers after they get a book deal is to not calculate their hourly wage. Do not try to estimate how many hours you spent writing and revising and divide that by your total advance. Writing is not measured like that or valued like that. Painters are not paid by the brush stroke. Your dinner isn’t price…

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