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Joy E. Rancatore
Five Lessons My First Draft Taught Me

Five Lessons My First Draft Taught Me

by Joy | May 10, 2018 | books, doubt and fear, dream of authorship, goals, readers, writing, writing community, writing process

Last week I typed “The End” on the first draft of my literary fiction novel. I’ve mentioned before to my newsletter subscribers (Click here to join this amazing Fellowship!) how much I’ve been learning through this process, so I decided to...
What Do You GET to Do?

What Do You GET to Do?

by Joy | May 3, 2018 | dream of authorship, writer mom, writers, writing, writing process

“I get to write tonight, ladies!” After I sent that text (and the appropriate corresponding gif, of course) to three of my amazing fellow writer moms, I got to thinking about the word get. That’s when it hit me: I GET to write! This is a privilege; not a right. Not...
Chat with Poet Mea Smith

Chat with Poet Mea Smith

by Joy | Apr 12, 2018 | doubt and fear, goals, poem, poet, poetry, writer mom, writers, writing process

Happy National Poetry Month!! As promised in this post on what I consider to be the most personal kind of writing, we’re continuing a monthlong celebration of POETRY in an interview with a poet. This isn’t any old poet, though! She is one of my dearest...
To Fear or Not to Fear: Finding Myself in My Fiction

To Fear or Not to Fear: Finding Myself in My Fiction

by Joy | Mar 29, 2018 | doubt and fear, goals, inspiration, Uncategorized, writers, writing process

Today’s focus is my fourth writing fear—finding myself in my fiction. This aspect of writing brings good and bad with it, so I’ve come to the decision that it’s all in how you handle it. Write what you know. If you’ve spent any time around...
To Fear or Not to Fear: World-building

To Fear or Not to Fear: World-building

by Joy | Mar 22, 2018 | C.S. Lewis, creativity, doubt and fear, genre, goals, Indie Authors, inspiration, J.R.R. Tolkien, world-building, writing process

Fantasy—the one genre I swore I would never, no how, no way write. Guess what I’m writing? In order to write fantasy, I have to do something incredibly more difficult than piecing words together to make a book; it’s called world-building. This is the third...
To Fear or Not to Fear: How Can I Write an Entire Book

To Fear or Not to Fear: How Can I Write an Entire Book

by Joy | Mar 8, 2018 | books, doubt and fear, writing, writing process

When I began writing books, one of the biggest concerns I had was could I really pen that many words? Depending on the genre (and who you talk to), books run anywhere from 70,000 to 120,000 words! That’s a whole lot of characters, Friends! So, back to...
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