S2 EP 12: New Kid on the Block

This week, Write Where it Hurts covers the challenges of feeling “new” at every step of publishing, and how to combat the anxieties and triggers that come up with it. Eva reinforces her newfound role in the BTS Army and Katryn gets philosophical (and, dare we say, cross-stitchable?) about the pressure to push down sensitivity.
*Content warnings: Anxiety, depression, and please note a trigger warning for queerphobia (Katryn discusses an incident with far-right protesters at drag queen story hour and how it impacted her and her family)
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Katryn is on a full-sail fangirl ship for Elijah Wood’s character in Yellowjackets with Christina Ricci’s psychopathic Misty

Eva was right about Joey, but there also IS a Jonathan in New Kids on the Block! Go down the rabbit hole on this kinda meh boy band.

Eva’s brilliant inspirational quotation this week from Adventure TimeKatryn talks about her run-in with far-right phobic protesters on Instagram
We talk a lot about the broad experiences of self-publishing, and how it can be very easy to start with little effort (i.e. you can post a book on Kindle with far less effort than trad. publishing) but is extraordinarily time consuming and VERY hard to do well. If you’re considering self-pub, check out the major success story of Andy Weir for inspiration!