Overcoming Writing ResistanceEvery January I set ambitious annual goals, and every March they are rubble, buried under client deadlines and surprises. A year is simply too long to hold focus. What actually produces books for me is daily goals and task-based deadlines.…
Overcoming Writing ResistanceWriting resolutions rely on motivation, and motivation is gone by late January. Write more is not a goal. What replaces willpower, and why the resolution was usually the wrong shape to begin with.
Fiction WritingThe attention that will not sit still is the same attention that makes connections nobody else makes. How to build a writing practice around that instead of fighting it into a shape it will never hold.
Book ReviewsCraft books teach you to write; this one addresses why you don't, the systems, habits, and mindset behind actually getting work done and sustaining a creative life. It targets the real bottleneck for many writers, consistent practice instead of talent,…
Author TalksKim Groshek joins Author Talks to discuss the Pause Power Movement, a year off her phone, and her framework of pausing, time-boxing, and agreement.
Career StoryThe September 11, 2019 Born to Write interview: celebrity ghostwriters versus the credibility mid-market, the wrestler predecessor and the Afghani client's escape from a prison of 15,000 skeletons, vomit-on-the-page drafting from 4:30 a.m., three promotion hours in every eight, BookBub…
Book CoachingThe May 21, 2019 farewell hour: category research, pantsers versus plotters, 5,000-word days in walk-broken sprints, professional editors and specific beta readers, AutoCrit far superior to Grammarly for fiction, the category-one launch push, the yes-yes hypnosis of webinar traps, consignment…
Author BusinessThe December 18, 2018 hour on confidence: publish the imperfect first book, the freelancer as salesperson, approaching agents through conversation, Richard Branson's accept-and-figure-it-out, fear as fiction, the pretend-no-savings mind game, Bonnie's 80,000 words at 78, the pop-and-lock dancer nobody clapped…
Author TalksProlific ghostwriter Cheryl Merz joins Author Talks to discuss collaborative ghostwriting, email lists, networking, and owning your platform.
Author BusinessPart two with Sage the Poet, broadcast as a nor'easter closed in: why writing and editing at the same time causes writer's block, the scheduled professional day, 12,000-word workdays via dictation, light outlining with story and character arcs, daily promotion,…
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