[Sonya Huber, inner stuff]: How your personal writing can deepen your relationships + how not to hate writing In this episode I'm talking with Sonya Huber, author of eight books including Voice First: A Writer’s Manifesto and professor in the low-residency MFA at Fairfield University about the mindset piece of writing–the thoughts, ideas, and attitudes that affect your work, even if you're not fully conscious of it, including: Ways to handle the anxiety that comes when in the months before your book is published How to deal with the fear that you’re personal writing will hurt someone in your life, or get it ‘wrong’ How writing about your own life can deepen relationships with people close to you “Sometimes books really matter to people in ways you don't even imagine they will” How getting long Covid inspired Sonya to write three books in three years For full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices