What Gives Our Story Meaning?
It’s time for another post as a Resident Writing Coach over at Writers Helping Writers, where we’re digging into the lessons we can take away from the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once.
The Best Reason to Blog — 2020 Edition
Struggling to reach your goals? We might not be able to reach our goals on our own, but the help and support of others can provide a bridge.
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Keeping Our Stories and Notes Safe (& Blogiversary Winners)!
Last week we explored our options for organizing our writing life, but even the best system won’t help us if we lose our notes, so we need a plan.
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Overwhelmed? What Do You Do? My Blog Announcement…
If we’re not careful, we can burn out or suffer serious consequences. So once in a while, we all need to evaluate our workload and reprioritize…even me.
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Is Coronanxiety Forcing Everyone to Count “Spoons”?
A month ago, we discussed how the coronavirus might affect us as writers. Since then, we’ve all had to learn how to cope with limits to our “spoons.”
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What’s Your Personal Story?
Many are struggling with anxiety, but stories have power in a crisis. Beyond the stories we write, there’s also the story we tell ourselves about our life.
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Writing in the Time of Coronanxiety
Everything in the news is currently all COVID-19 all the time. All that anxiety can make it hard to focus on our writing. What can we do to fix it?
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What Do You Do with Disappointment?
Disappointment is an unavoidable aspect of living, but how we react to the disappointment—or the failure to get what we want—can teach us about ourselves.
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Discovering What Matters: Editing and Your Life
What does the moving process have in common with the editing process? Both make us prioritize, purge, and question what matters.
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Reading Challenge: Overcome the Algorithms
If we fall into a reading rut, a reading challenge can help us expand our choices, so keeping track of what we read can be useful—for readers and writers.
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