Reflections on the writing process: September 15, 2023

Let's ease into the weekend with some advice on the mental side of writing, from the expert blogs we follow.

• Finding your process and trusting it: Author Virginia Pye shares the process that she typically follows, but doesn't rigidly adhere to, to share the messiness that is the writing journey (Writer Unboxed).

• Five hard truths about writing: Author and professor Lori Hahnel spills the lessons she's learned in her twenty-something years of being a professional writer ... but that she doesn't dare share with her students, for fear of scaring them off (Women Writers, Women's Books).