Building Resilience and Creative Lies Writers Tell Themselves with Katherine Collette

About this episode

Katherine Collette discusses the creative lies writers tell themselves and the importance of resilience in a writing career.

312 / What are the creative lies writers tell themselves, and how can reframing your mindset lead to a long-lasting, resilient writing career? Katherine Collette shares her insights and lessons from both podcasting and publication. ✨ This week’s sponsor is Vellum: http://tryvellum.com/wish Why resilience matters more than talent or craftThe pitfalls of tying self-worth to external validationReframing the role of social media and visibilityThe archetypes of post-publication responseFinding joy...

People in this episode

Guest: Katherine Collette

Topics covered

• resilience
• creative mindset
• self-worth
• social media
• post-publication response

Keywords

• writing career
• validation
• visibility
• joy

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Vellum

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