The Novel Writing Podcast

What Drives You to Write?

Colleen Mitchell Episode 128

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What drives you as a writer?

Internal fulfillment, or external rewards?

While neither is wrong or right, it's important to know your primary driver so that when you get into a writing slump, you have a proven way to break free.

Listen to this episode for how to identify that primary motivator, the differences between the two, and ways to tap into the opposite if you need to shake things up.

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