Overwhelmed? Break Down Tasks for Writing and Life — Guest: Augustina Van Hoven
If we’re overwhelmed, that stress isn’t good for our creativity. Let’s explore how to break tasks into manageable chunks—for writing and for our life.
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Finding Book Recommendations Beyond the Usual
If we don’t know where to go to get book recommendations beyond the “usual,” we might get stuck in a reading rut, so let’s share ideas for other resources to try.
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Do We Know What We’re Capable Of?
Self-rejection is thinking we can’t succeed because it’s hard, the chances are low, or we’ve struggled with it before. But we’re often capable of more than we think.
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Is Your Writing Plan Ready for a Crisis? — Guest: Lisa Bell
At some point in our writing career, we’re likely to struggle with writing when “life” happens. How can we plan for the unexpected and survive life’s chaos?
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Can We Take a Break from Online? (& Blogiversary Winners!)
The online world can be wonderful or overwhelming (or sometimes both at the same time). What does it mean to go offline in our super-connected world?
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Can We Run Out of Stories to Read?
A tweet along the lines of “I ran out of books in my to-be-read pile” shocked me. How do we find books to read and how can we can expand our choices?
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How Can We Make Sense of Our Goals and Priorities?
With everything we think we “should” do, it can be hard to know what our goals really are. How can we figure out our priorities—our most important goals?
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The Importance of Balance in Our Lives
Finding a good work-life-writing balance is a never-ending struggle. Despite the difficulty, we need to pursue balance or suffer in multiple ways.
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The Pressure to Write: You Do You
Stories about super-productive authors can make us doubt ourselves or think we’re not doing enough, but we shouldn’t worry about measuring up to impossible standards.
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The Pros and Cons of Experimenting
The processes that worked on our last story might not work on our next one, but we want to think about the pros and cons before experimenting.
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