Write for your readers. Aspiring and published authors hear this advice more often than any other publishing wisdom. But no one warns that following this advice can dampen your passion for writing projects or leave you feeling creatively off course. Worse, it stops you from listening to your wise inner voice. When you lose your writing mojo or feel frustrated, hopeless,…
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Following Your Obsessions Helps You Write with Ease, Joy, and Speed
If writing feels difficult, unpleasant, or slow, it’s time to refocus. After all, slogging through a writing project means you aren’t excited or passionate about the subject. But if you change the subject to one you are obsessed with, writing will feel easy and joyous, and you’ll write quickly. I know this is true. When I sit down to work…
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How to Reap the Benefits of Making Friends with Writing Deadlines
Deadlines are my friends. While many people despise them, I’ve cozied up to deadlines since I began getting published in high school. They inspire and motivate me while keeping me focused and productive. If you want to succeed as a writer, you need all those things—inspiration, motivation, focus, and productivity. I know this because I’m a journalist, blogger, and author,…
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Get Out of Your Writing Funk by Making Writing Fun Again
Have you found yourself in a writing funk? You don’t have writer’s block, but writing feels hard, unpleasant, and a “should” on your to-do list. What’s up with that? After all, you love writing and dream of publishing your work, right? Yet, you just can’t get motivated or inspired to write, and when you do sit down at the computer,…
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Is It Really Possible Write a Nonfiction Book in a Weekend or a Month?
If you are like most writers, I bet you’ve seen more than one ad or email that said, “Write that book already!” Or perhaps it promised, “You can write a book in a weekend!” In response, perhaps you thought, “Maybe someone else can write a book, but not me.” Or maybe you said, “Yeah, right. It’s impossible to write a…
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How to Make 2023 The Year You Finally Start Writing Consistently
How many years in a row have you resolved to write consistently? Maybe you started a book or article manuscript or even a blog and then lost interest. You started out strong and wrote daily, and then wrote sporadically…and then stopped. Or perhaps you never managed to write consistently enough to get more than a few pages written. Whatever the…
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How Your Excuses Block Your Ability to Write and Publish Successfully
Let’s be honest, shall we? The reasons why you claim you can’t write consistently or publish a book are excuses. Plain and simple. And everything you desire—like being a successful writer, blogger, journalist, or author—could be yours if you take responsibility for and commit to self-mastery. No…not writing, skill, or craft or even submitting or marketing. Self-mastery is the same…
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