Curriculum
Module 01 of Brand New And Still The Real Thing.
Beginners treat "newness" like a stain. It isn't. It's the job. Every writer you admire had a year one. We name that — explicitly — and install the working definition: "new" is not a category beneath "writer." It's a tense. We're going to retire the apology.
DARE →
Catch yourself apologising for being new this week. Don't. Notice nothing bad happens.
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✦ MANTRA
New is a tense. Not a category beneath the noun. I am here. I am the noun.
Newness is not a stain on the title. It's the proof you're using it on purpose. Wear the title. The newness wears off on its own.
— L.A. Walton, The Book Maven