Co-Creating with a Writer Who Takes Every Rejection as a Call to Action | Laura Cathcart Robbins | Ep 1102
"I am itching to write the moment I wake up. I can't wait to sit down at the keyboard and start writing." - Laura Cathcart Robbins Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and Laura Cathcart Robbins for a live conversation. Laura's first article, published in 2018, went viral and grew into her podcast, The Only One in the Room. A connection from the podcast led her to her agent, and her memoir, Stash: My Life in Hiding, went to auction and sold to Simon & Schuster. She has since switched to fiction and sold a book that comes out in 2027, and she calls discipline her superpower. You'll walk away with: - Why Laura took every rejection as a call to action, not a rejection - Writing for yourself versus writing what sells, and why her authentic voice is what sells - Why practice makes a practice, and the daily discipline that puts gas in her tank to write Timestamps: 00:00 - Welcome to the Outlier's Edge Podcast 02:15 - Choosing to Become a Writer 03:18 - A First Article That Went Viral 03:50 - Signed by an Agent After a Few Pages 05:03 - Every Rejection as a Call to Action 05:46 - A New Genre, Said Out Loud for the First Time 07:25 - Where the Choice to Write Came From 10:27 - Teachers Who Said This Story Needs to Be Told 10:50 - Writing the Book She Couldn't Find 13:52 - How She Surfed Going Viral 15:54 - What Sells Is Different 17:08 - Why She Loves Writing 21:47 - The Memoir That Went to Auction 22:30 - I Know This Book Is Good 25:20 - Her Superpower Is Discipline 27:42 - Practice Makes a Practice Enter Laura Cathcart Robbins's World: Instagram | Website Continue into Outlier’s Edge World: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Youtube | Website | Guild Community