So, What Happens Now?

David W. Berner, The Writer Shed

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The Writer Shed

4 min readFeb 8

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The journey of a new book

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A friend asked the other day . . .

“How’s the writing going?”

I wasn’t sure how to answer that.

“Oh, it’s going.”

Truth is, the writing was pretty much done and about to go to the editors. It’s an unsettling time in the progression of a book. Unnerving, truthfully. You are about to put it out into…

David W. Berner, The Writer Shed

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Award-winning writer of memoir and fiction. Creator of Medium publication: THE WRITER SHED and author of THE ABUNDANCE on Substack..

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