How do you write stories and characters that captivate an audience? Rebecca Serle, New York Times bestselling novelist has written multiple hit books like Expiration Dates, One Italian Summer, In Five Years, and The Dinner List. She shares the real life experiences that inspired her books, how to find gratitude for your practice, how to push through imperfection to complete the first draft, what it takes to become a bestselling novelist, and how rejection can lead you to a remarkable life that you could’ve never imagined.

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TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:

1. You don’t have to know how the process is going to change. That’s part of a creative life.
2. Everyone has the ability to be creative and experience full flow state.
3. Cultivate a narrative of love around your practice. Remind yourself how lucky you are to do it and how much you love it.
4. Fate is not a one-path solidified thing. We have directions that we tend towards, but we all have a few different paths where our life could end up.
5. Follow the feeling. Move into what feels good.
6. Thank the doors that closed. It’ll redirect you to a life that you could’ve never imagined.
7.  You don’t have to get it right. You just have to get it written.
8.  Tap into what makes us human. That’s what makes your work sing.

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