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Real Talk: New Year’s Resolutions Are Trash

Here’s Why You Don’t Need Them: Let’s get one thing straight: New Year’s resolutions are the diet pills of personal growth. They promise transformation, sprinkle in a little hope, and…

Gabriel LucateroDecember 30, 2024

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Real Talk: Why Self-Awareness Is the Real Plot Twist You Need

Here’s the uncomfortable truth about self-awareness: it’s like realizing you’ve been writing a novel with Comic Sans. Necessary, a little mortifying, and absolutely transformative. For indie writers, it is the…

Gabriel LucateroDecember 23, 2024

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Real Talk: Surviving Christmas: Without Losing Your Sanity or Sales

Ah, Christmas. The season of joy, goodwill, and… endless distractions. It’s five days away but feels like it came a month ago. For indie writers, it’s not all chestnuts roasting…

Gabriel LucateroDecember 20, 2024

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Real Talk: Goals for Writers Who Hate Goals

Goal setting. Sounds sexy, doesn’t it? You picture yourself jotting down ambitious plans in a sleek notebook you bought from the clearance section at Staples, sipping coffee like a moody…

Gabriel LucateroDecember 5, 2024

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Real Talk: I Burned The Rulebook and Write What I Want

Writing is hard. Being a writer? That’s a whole other level of masochism. But here you are, pen in hand (or fingers on keys), chasing that dream of seeing your…

Gabriel LucateroDecember 3, 2024

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Real Talk: A Writer’s Thanksgiving

Grateful for $2.50 and the Dream It Represents It’s Thanksgiving, and like most people, I’ve been thinking about what I’m thankful for this year. Family, health, a few good meals…

Gabriel LucateroNovember 27, 2024

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Book Review: American Psycho

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis: A Book Review When American Psycho came out in 1991, it horrified people—and not just a little bit. It wasn’t a mild discomfort or…

Gabriel LucateroNovember 26, 2024

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Fiction: The Ghost Lover; A Gothic, Californian Tale

Fourteen years ago, I wrote a story that was unlike anything I had tried before. Around the same time, I was penning other tales that have since found their way…

Gabriel LucateroSeptember 6, 2024

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Real Talk: My First Writer’s Symposium

Is this what it feels like to be a writer? Sitting under the spotlight of an intimate art gallery in Santa Barbara, surrounded by the hum of creative energy and…

Gabriel LucateroJuly 13, 2024

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Real Talk: Obsessed; A Love Story Gone Off the Rails

Obsessed: A Love Story Gone Off the Rails (Or Was It Ever on Them?) “She hated to be there. It was so frustrating. But it wasn’t just the waiting part…

Gabriel LucateroJune 3, 2024

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Real Talk: New Year’s Resolutions Are Trash

Real Talk: Why Self-Awareness Is the Real Plot Twist You Need

Real Talk: Surviving Christmas: Without Losing Your Sanity or Sales

Real Talk: Goals for Writers Who Hate Goals

Real Talk: I Burned The Rulebook and Write What I Want

Real Talk: A Writer’s Thanksgiving

Book Review: American Psycho

Fiction: The Ghost Lover; A Gothic, Californian Tale

Real Talk: My First Writer’s Symposium

Real Talk: Obsessed; A Love Story Gone Off the Rails

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