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And this is at the end when Lisa is talking about letting yourself be a beginner and also choosing to make your own rules, even when they go against maybe what you've been taught or what you think is right and trusting your process instead. So she says, every artist was first in amateur, writes Ralph Waldo Emerson. I remember hearing this quote for the first time early in my creative path and being filled with enormous relief
Rebecca Richardson
@RenGoblin · 2:38
Firstly, wow, that is accurate as heck. It's so uplifting to hear someone else, like, say it. I know. I've said to people a few times in my life like, they'll be like, oh, you write. Well, I'm like, I've been doing it since was eleven. You don't have to start a place of trying to live up to anything. Just pick up that pen or that pencil, pick up that guitar, pick up that paintbrush
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:53
We met very early in College, and both of us were just kind of obsessed with writing, and our relationship primarily existed of justice, both sitting in the library, writing things and trying to learn about submitting and the entire world and process of writing
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 4:08
Thank you so much for the swell Bowie. I was going to respond sooner, but, you know, it's just things just got a little crazy and lazy on my end. I really like this concept of how that most authors and most artists weren't born that way. Yeah. Save a few geniuses, of course. But most of them worked and worked and worked and worked
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 0:51
I am taking these positive and persistent vibes with me into the long holiday weekend, during which I'm really hoping to have some quiet time with my book. And I'm so so looking forward to it
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 3:10
Now I've had one friend of mine tell me to do the beta read first and then someone else, an author who self published, but she's doing well. She said no, you need to get a developmental editor and proofreader before you do the beta read. But what is the point of my story? Yes. Other point of my story. Yeah. The point of this whole thing is when you talk about 100 failures and all of that
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:17
I'm hoping that I can get it in enough time and read it before the book club. Would you say it's a quick read? How many days, days do you think on the inter
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 3:38
It's going to be funny. I almost want to think like, okay, what would Bowie rate this book as? Okay. Bowie's rating is going to be. Yeah, I'm not going to state it here right now. Okay. Yeah. As far as the 100 rejections goes. Yeah, I have to obviously finish the manuscript before I can even work towards getting 100 rejections. But yeah, that's something. And I was also wondering if there were other maybe you can help me
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:02
Hey Shahnaz, thank you for the quick reply. So I just had a stroke of genius because I realized in your reply that I never finished setting up my Libre FM account. And so because because I had your discount through Living Life through books, podcast promo code, I ended up being able to get both Midnight Library and Hamnet on Libra, which is great because I can start listening to them now
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 3:23
I'm a Libra influencer, so I get books from them, but the books they picked so all their influences get the same six books every month. But I've had some good books, like some really good books and some that I've been like, it's okay, that kind of thing. But yeah, I'm so glad you got both Hamnet and Midnight Library now. I'm kind of like maybe I should just purchase Hamnet. I think that's what I will do
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 0:46
Oh, awesome. I just wanted to say thank you for the recommendation. I, of course, just added it to my Goodreads list. And I've also been using Story graph, which I'm really into. I like it a lot
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 1:53
I just went and did a search for Story Graph and I couldn't find it. So because it's a beta. I don't think I can use it yet, but so I'm curious. What do you like about Story Graph and tell me more. You really want to know. I love Goodreads. And there are things where I'm kind of like, Goodreads. There are things that where it's a little lacking. I can't tell you exactly where
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 2:02
So anyways, it's definitely pretty cool to check out. Whenever you get a chance to create an account and sign in. And whenever you are on there, you can find me and add me as a friend. I think my username is Bowie Bowie. Like Bowie then R-O-W-I-E. Yes. Looking forward to talking more books and have a great, great time at the bookstore
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 4:11
So let's just restrict you to what you like, because if you have asked me, I just said, I do not like science fiction, but then I am reading a science fiction book, and I'm enjoying it. That's why we have a book club to expand our Horizons. So to say, these are the books you would like, I get it. But then I don't get it, because it would be nice to expose myself to more genres and more things within the books
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 0:18
Oops. I think I Typed your name wrong. So I did find you and I have added you still playing with this app so we shall see how it goes and I will catch you later. Alright. Bye
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 2:18
Hey Bowie, happy Thanksgiving to you. So I was playing a bit more with the app and I love the feature of stats where it breaks down all your bookshelf, calendars and your reading moods. I mean, not reading books, but the book moods and fast books. Low books, medium books. How many pages? How many book pages do you like to read in a regular book? How many fiction, nonfiction, all the breakdowns, those kinds of things. I really, really like
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 2:06
So if you discover anything that you think is particularly interesting or cool or I should say anything else because you already shared a few things, I would love to hear them pretty much anything that has like charts or stats. I usually really enjoy. And I think the fact that I know from reading their newsletter and stuff, they're really trying to figure out how to partner with places like bookshop and Libra FM and stuff
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