Real Talk for Writers

with Isabel Sterling

Why Celebration is Non-Negotiable burnout celebration confidence journal prompts Jul 28, 2025

Regular celebration is essential to crafting a burnout-free, sustainable fiction career.

Yet celebration is also the most commonly skipped -- or delayed -- parts of the process I teach.

Authors will tell me that it's "too soon" to celebrate when they get a new book deal because it's not "officia...