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Cup of Coffee: June 1, 2021

Cup of Coffee: June 1, 2021

I finished my book and my brain is cooked

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Good morning!

The good news: I got my manuscript done! It’s out of my hands, baby. Now I just sit here with crushing doubt about my abilities as a writer and thinker for months, at which point the book comes out and, when it inevitably receives even the mildest sort of criticism, I find even lower levels of self-doubt and self-loathing into which I can …

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