The Girl in the Red Rubber Boots

Tag: writing

  • Moving to Substack

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    TL;DR—I’ve decided to move my blog to the Substack platform. You can find it at https://emilysmucker.substack.com/ If you want to know more details, along with the journey that led to the switch, keep reading! Why Substack? Sometimes I feel like I’ve given every website/social media platform a try at some point or another. Not just…

  • Why I Became a Writer

    Why I Became a Writer

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    When I started college in 2010, I thought I’d end up as a missionary, a housewife, a teacher, or some combination of the above. I assumed I’d write a little, but I didn’t foresee writing as my main career. By the time I graduated in 2017, I’d cast aside my missionary, housewife, and especially teaching…

  • How to sound like you don’t know what you’re talking about

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    So I was reading this bit of historical fiction. The author had obviously done a lot of research into the time period she was writing about. She included all the details. But I still found it almost impossible to suspend my disbelief. I had this nearly overwhelming feeling that the author didn’t know what she…

  • MOP April 13: Vindication

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    I was pretty bad at academic writing when I started college, which was hard on my ego. I mean, I’d published a book and stuff, how dare my teachers make notes in the margins of my papers telling me to take a writing class? Humph. Still, being of a practical frame of mind, I signed…

  • MOP April 7: Making the Most of the Life Stage You’re Currently In

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    Right now, I want to write another book. I know exactly what I want to write. I sit and daydream about pulling out my pencils and digging into a stack of old notebooks and organizing my ideas. I research how to write book proposals. But. I am not at a life stage where I can…

  • Writing is Just Hard

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    Uggghhhhhh writing is so haaaaaaaarrrrrrd. Why? Shouldn’t it be easy, so long as you learned how to type in high school? Just put your fingers on the keys, and, “beep beep boop!” Transfer your thoughts to the electronic equivalent of paper. Right? I mean, come on, fingers. You haven’t posted in a month and a…

  • Writers who Don’t Care

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    I’ve decided that there are two types of writers: writers who care, and writers who don’t care. Writers who care write in order to be heard. They post Facebook status updates about the bickering matches they’re writing for their characters. They spend hours pounding away at the keyboard, and go to writer’s conferences, and endlessly…