The Novel Rocket Writing Blog is 10 Years Old and Celebrating!

Edie here. Don't panic, you didn't click on the wrong website. As many of you know, I'm the Senior Editor and a monthly contributor to  the award-winning Novel Rocket writing blog. I wanted to help them celebrate—and let you in on the give-away fun. Be sure to stop by and wish them Happy Birthday!

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Happy birthday, Novel Rocket!

We’re turning 10 years old this September! It was in September of 2005, our very first author interview was with Deborah Raney. To celebrate this 10-year milestone, we have 2 announcements:

First: we hired a VA to go back and catalogue all the interviews from the past 10 years. Now you can access those by going to the Interviews tab on Novel Rocket. There you’ll find a linked alphabetical listing of every author, agent, publicist and publisher we’ve interviewed. And for 10 years, it’s quite a substantial list!

Second: September will be Giveaway Month. Every week, one lucky winner will receive 5 autographed novels (unless they are an e-book. You can’t autograph one of those) by the Rocketeers of that week.

Every comment you leave will give you one chance in the drawing. If you leave one every day, you have 7 chances that week.

So get ready to celebrate Novel Rocket’s 10^th birthday with us!

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Life Lessons—Silence the Voices in Your Head Once and For All

by Edie Melson

As writers we all hear voices. Often times they’re the characters who inhabit the worlds we create. But almost as often, they’re the voices of naysayers, reminding us how horribly we’re going to fail. I call these the You Can’t Voices.

And even worse than the You Can’t Voices, are the voices that try to remind us of all the good things we’re neglecting when we self-indulgently steal time to write. I call these the You Shouldn’t Voices.

Today I’m going to share some thoughts about those last two categories and how to silence the voices in your head.

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