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  • When an Author Wants to Quit

    When an Author Wants to Quit

    I want to give it all up. All the striving. All the pushing. All the trying. I just want to stop and forget I ever wanted to. I won’t. But that’s what I want right now. To quit.

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  • How’s Writing Going?

    So this month has been all author memes, which has been super fun for me (and hopefully you). But why all memes brilliantly created by others and no words from me? Here’s a mini vlog to explain! Christina Bergling https://linktr.ee/chrstnabergling

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  • The Basis for The Rest Will Come

    Christina Bergling https://linktr.ee/chrstnabergling

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  • The Hardest Part of Writing Savages

    Christina Bergling https://linktr.ee/chrstnabergling

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  • Writing Real into The Rest Will Come

    Some writers invent entire new worlds full of characters birthed entirely from their brains. I am not those writers. Instead, I like to take something real, most often from my own experience, and disfigure it with my imagination into fiction. Perhaps it means I lack the depth of other worlds inside of me, but I…

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  • What Savages is Really About

    Since this pandemic started (or more since people began reacting to it), I have heard multiple times, “Your book Savages makes so much sense now” or “I really see what you meant in Savages” or “It’s just like you wrote about in Savages.” The goal of any writer is to produce a work that is…

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  • On Writing Savages

    When you publish a book, the first thing people ask you is where the idea came from. The honest answer (that it just one day materialized out of the gray matter between my ears and started knocking on my skull until I wrote it out) always sounds like a vague copout, so I guess the…

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