This isn't a highlight reel. It's the actual process — the manuscript breakthroughs, the weeks nothing happens, the ugly cries in Target, and everything in between. I'm writing a book about what it looks like when competent women outgrow the life they built. These are the field notes.

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The messy middle, documented in real time.

Out the Who-Ha
Becca Thompson Becca Thompson

Out the Who-Ha

One rejection. One "resubmit." One manuscript I accidentally sent unedited. Weird, but true anomaly: querying and volleyball tryouts run on similar odds. I did the math.

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