Dear Kate
Valerie CantellaDear Kate is for the woman who hasn’t started the book yet, but can’t stop thinking about it. You’ve got notes, journals, maybe a few voice memos. You haven’t said “I’m writing a book” out loud because the stakes feel real. Let's explore those things.
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Is My Story Really Enough?
There’s a belief most women carry when they think about writing their story. It has to be big. Dramatic. Resolved with a neat redemption arc that feels Hallmark complete. Then they think: Mine isn’t any of those things. So maybe I don’t hav...
Permission to take your time
Isn’t it interesting how many appeals to potential writers rush you?
It starts before you even open a document. “Just write a bad first draft.” “Don’t overthink it, just start.” “You’re thinking too much — you need to do.”
Forward motion...
What I wish someone had said to me before I began
I had been writing for years before I wrote the book. Personal journals. The Katie blog, which I’d been writing publicly for almost 25 years. But that was a carefully edited version of the story — the portion I could share without exposing...
Don't Outsource the Wrong Thing
When I opened my inbox this morning, I deleted five emails after reading the first paragraph because they were clearly AI-generated. And while I’m a fan of outsourcing many tasks to AI, I cannot support “writing” major components of your st...
The fear underneath the fear
Last time I told you about the woman who had been carrying her story for years and couldn’t make herself begin. The woman who’d told it privately but couldn’t go public with it.
That woman was me, six years ago. And what I said was: I even...
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