What Makes a Writer a “Real” Author?
What makes someone a “real” writer or a “real” author? Let’s look at the question of what makes a writer “real” from a different perspective.
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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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Cover Design: 4 Tips to Keep in Mind — Guest: Renee Wittman
Even if we’ve read cover-design advice before, there’s always more to learn. Here are a few insights from Renee Wittman we might not have thought of before.
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Can Common Writing Advice Be Wrong?
There’s no “one right way” in writing, so how should we approach writing advice if even the most frequently shared advice is often wrong?
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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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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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Stop and Smell the Sense of Accomplishment
Milestones like graduation force a sense of accomplishment that comes from completing something. Similarly, we can “graduate” from one stage of our writing life to the next.
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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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