Word Magic
You’re a self-publishing author. Want to make more sales? Of course you do. This weird trick (I wouldn’t call it a strategy) will boost your sales, almost painlessly. It doesn’t cost anything except maybe ten minutes of your time every few days. I discovered the trick when I was working with students in one of my fiction plotting classes. As … Read more
Here we are in a brand new year. A question: is your writing process effective—and stress-free? If you’re stressed and panic regularly, chances are your process needs a little fine-tuning. Several days into the new year, a writing student called me in a panic. She queried a website last October, with an idea she thought might work for them. Their … Read more
Writing more is always a challenge. You wish you could write more—but the holiday season might be the worst time to think about productivity and your writing. Many writers crash and burn over the holiday break. Not only do they frustrate their paying clients and editors, they may well destroy their careers. Many of my writing students, and my colleagues, … Read more
Is writing hard for you? If you want to make writing easy, you need to stop struggling. Seriously. Your brain will happily help you to write, because it naturally uses its Default Mode Network (DMN) whenever it can. You can leverage the DMN to make writing easy. So, what’s the brain’s Default Mode Network? Basically, it’s what your brain does … Read more
Do you wish you could be a more confident writer? Would confidence help you to: Write more, more often? Approach more clients if you’re a freelancer? Treat your writing as a business? KNOW how to develop plans which work for you and your writing business? Be happier? As a writing mentor and coach, I often work with writers with amazing … Read more