How To Prevent and Combat Burnout As An Author With Brooklyn Knight
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How do you combat burnout as an author? With deadlines to meet and edits to make, it often gets overwhelming and creatively stifling to deal with all these. To tackle this, host Ella Barnard chats with interracial romance author Brooklyn Knight. After a recent burnout episode, Brooklyn quit her job to become a full-time author. Here, she talks about her experience and how she’s managing her work now to prevent further episodes. She also offers advice on how to keep growing as a writer, plus gives tips on how to write shorter and faster. Tune in to get more insight into her writing process and how she builds her characters.
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