You can publish your writing in so many different places. However, the place you need to publish your content is on your own website. I’ve said this many times, but it bears repeating: Do not use social media or someone else’s publishing platform as your blog or author website. A blog belongs on your author website. You can share the…
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Why You Need to Publish Your Writing on Your Website
Why Slowing Down Offers Writers an Effective Goal-Achievement Strategy
We live in a fast-paced world where quickly achieving goals is perceived as a virtue. We are taught to strive with unwavering determination and consistency to reach our goals. Slowing down is considered unacceptable or a weakness, yet it provides a better goal-achievement strategy for everyone…including nonfiction writers. Slowing the pace at which you pursue your writing dreams can mean…
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7 Steps to Becoming a Successful Nonfiction Author
Lots of people offer advice on how to become a successful nonfiction author. But only one tried-and-true process exists to achieve that goal. If you follow its seven steps, you will reach your writing and publishing dreams. How do I know this process works better than those taught by other experts? I have used it in my career and landed…
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How Writers can Use Disappointment to Motivate New Action
For writers, disappointment is inevitable. Maybe that’s a negative belief, but you’d probably agree that most writers experience disappointment at some point—especially if they take risky steps to realize their publishing dreams. But you don’t have to allow disappointment to stop you from continuing to move boldly toward your goals of writing and publishing successfully. I know this well. As…
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How Changing Your Environment Helps You Develop New Writing Habits
There is a way to make changing or developing new writing habits easier. Change your environment. When you alter the context in which you write, developing new behaviors becomes simpler. Your current environment supports your everyday writing habits. For example, if your desk sits in a dark corner of the house and is covered in bills, dirty tissues, and books,…
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5 Important Lessons Writers can Learn from 2024 Grammy Performances
What do the Grammy Awards have to do with writing? A lot…especially if you are of a “certain age” or haven’t written or published anything in a while. This year’s ceremony provided a powerful reminder that you’re never too old to write a book. And it demonstrated that you can restart your writing career even after many quiescent years. You’re…
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How Writers Get Out of Their Comfort Zone
You’ve heard the advice: Get out of your comfort zone! Indeed, life takes on a different quality when challenging yourself to go beyond what feels easy now. And if you have writing goals and publishing dreams, you probably realize that achieving them requires stretching past your current competence and confidence levels, and that can feel uncomfortable. It’s no wonder many…
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