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✍️ Are You Ready to Make Yourself Accountable to Your Writing?

or, How Procrastination Got One Author a Free Hotel Room in Devon and Why That Won’t Work for You - Accountability is a surprising antidote for…

Nov 28

✍️ How to Get Satisfaction from Your Writing

or, How a Throwaway Song Became a Classic Hit – and What It Means for Writers | Mick Jagger and Keith Richards didn't like "Satisfaction" though they…

Nov 14

October 2023

✍️ How to Overcome Your Busy Day and Motivate Yourself to Write

or, Yes You Can Juggle Priorities Without Losing Your Marbles! Waiting for motivation? You need to make it yourself. Here are some pointers on how to do…

Oct 31

✍️ How to Fall in Love with Writing

or, How I Went from Hating to Loving the Writing Process - An interview with Stephen Merchant got me thinking about my own writing journey from hate to…

Oct 17

✍️ How Constrained Writing Can Help You Creatively

or, Why Total Writing Freedom Isn’t - Constrained writing is an approach that helps us go from infinite creative choices to just a few for easier…

Oct 3

September 2023

✍️ Showing Up to Write

or, We Can’t Control the Fish, Only the Fishing Rod | We can't directly control the ideas flowing, but we can show up to catch them. Here's how.

Sep 19 •

✍️ You Don’t Need Permission to Be a Writer

or, How to Jump Off a Cliff and Know You’ll Dive Safely into the Deep End | Do you need permission to be a writer? Here's some compelling proof you…

Sep 5

July 2023

✍️ Fear of Putting Yourself Out There in Your Writing

or, How to Get from “The End” to “Send”

Jul 25

✍️ How to Sing Blue Silver

or, How to Recognize – and Capture – the Ideas that Will Inspire Your Writing (Part 2) - some tips on how to find the good ideas in the background…

Jul 11

June 2023

✍️ All That Shimmers

or, How to Recognize Ideas that Will Inspire Your Writing (Part 1) Different writers compare great ideas to "shimmer". What is it and how can it help…

Jun 27

✍️ How to Write Bad Words

or, Breaking Writer’s Block by Writing - It may be counterintuitive, but one of the best ways to overcome writer's block is to just keep writing, even…

Jun 13

✍️ Why We Struggle With Writer’s Block

A Bonus Quick-hit Post - I've danced around the causes of writer's block, self-admittedly not ever being able to give exact reasons for it. Until now. I…

Jun 6

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