Co-Creating with a Writer Who Takes Every Rejection as a Call to Action | Laura Cathcart Robbins | Ep 1102

From Outlier's Edge Podcast with Niiamah Ashong Niiamah Ashong

"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

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