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The Roller Coaster Writing Life: How to Stay Encouraged When the Highs and Lows Hit
by Julie Lavender @JLavenderWrites
Do you ever feel like your writing journey is a roller coaster? I certainly do.
Recently, my husband and I flew from South Georgia to Colorado Springs for an interview about our newest book release. We packed for Colorado weather.
Well, we thought we did. But, boy did we overpack!
When we mentioned the unusually warm weather to a native Coloradan (it was two degrees warmer in the mountains of Colorado Springs at that moment than it was in our hometown in Georgia), he laughed and said, “Well, what we say in The Springs is, ‘If you don’t like the weather at this moment—wait fifteen minutes. It’s bound to change.’”
