Holiday downtime can prove enormously productive for writers—especially those who begin to focus on writing projects they might want to take on in the New Year. In this guest post, book editor C.K. Bush (@theladyck) provides tips on how to use that downtime to brainstorm and evaluate new writing projects. The end of the year is a great time to…
Read More
If your inner critic regularly stops your attempts to write, it’s time to get the upper hand. Today Emmanuel Nataf (@EmmanuelNataf), co-founder of Reedsy, provides the basic steps to get your writing flowing by using a tried-and-true technique that keeps the critic at bay. Your greatest enemy and critic when writing is often yourself. While there are countless articles and…
Read More
The end of the year can feel like an impossible time to write daily. There’s holiday shopping and cooking to do, parties to attend, and, for some people, travel plans to complete. Your regular writing schedule seems to get disrupted entirely from Thanksgiving until the first week of January. Many writers participate in 30-day writing challenges in November. If you…
Read More
You set a goal—write a book in 30 days. And you’ve been writing every day, cranking out the words and moving toward meeting your deadline. And then…life happens. Your kids (or you) get sick. Someone close to you dies. A natural disaster occurs. The basement floods. Your boss throws a new project at you that is due ASAP. Your car…
Read More
You’re in the homestretch… Less than two weeks left to complete your Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN) Challenge project. But you’re slowing down. Maybe the pressure, late writing nights, early writing mornings, or overwhelm have made consistent writing seem less than doable. You know you must increase your productivity—and fast!—if you want to finish your book in 30 days. That…
Read More
For those who have struggled to write a book—without success, a 30-day writing challenge can prove an enormously effective way to finally get the project done. The reason for this comes down to a habit—generating urgency. Specifically, a book-in-a-month event, like the Write Nonfiction in November Challenge (WNFIN), provides you with a sense of urgency. Your mind shifts to “I…
Read More
If you are like most aspiring writers, you write inconsistently. You might even call yourself a “sporadic” writer. If you’d like to change that fact and write consistently, you need to use one tool religiously: a calendar. A calendar provides the key to a consistent writing practice. And when you write consistently, you stop aspiring to become a writer and…
Read More
Halloween. Time to take the kids trick or treating, dress up for your friend’s party, and cue up The Night of the Living Dead. But when you wake up tomorrow morning with a sugar hangover, you’ll wish you’d spent some time accumulating tricks and treats to help you tackle your Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN) Challenge project. After all, WNFIN…
Read More
You’ve put your first big nonfiction book project to bed. What’s next? And how will you approach the second book project so it succeeds and you advance your nonfiction writing career? Good questions. Today, book editor C.K. Bush (@theladyck) answers them based on her experience with long-time editing clients. One of the greatest pleasures of my work as an editor…
Read More