A Writer’s Year

David W. Berner, The Writer Shed
The Writer Shed
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4 min readDec 15, 2023

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The things I learned writing in 2023

Photo by Ivan Bertolazzi

Enough with the year-end listings. Best books. Best music. Best movies. On and on. It’s fun, to some extent. But yet, there’s this expectedness that comes with it. As if a year is not complete unless we rank it.

What I have learned this year, 2023, is that in the writing life, ranking is not the best approach for your creative sanity. Meaning, don’t rank your work. Don’t…

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David W. Berner, The Writer Shed
The Writer Shed

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