Get the First Draft Written and Mental Health for Writers with Erin P.T. Canning

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Episode 204 / Having trouble getting words on the page? Erin P.T. Canning has strategies to help! We delve into how to let go of perfectionism and give yourself permission to write a “bad” first draft. Erin also shares how writing helped her with depression.

• Why it’s important to look backward as well plan for the future
• Making time to write as a busy at-home and working mom
• Turning off the inner critic
• Embracing you genre
• Daydreaming: mentally draft and revise before writing
• Placeholder as the first chapter

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