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The Best Way to Stop Being a Perfectionist
On today's episode, I dive into the topic of perfectionism. This is an area where so many writers struggle. We have this ideal of what we should be writing, or the kind of success we should be having, and then we get...
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Tips for Writing at a Coffee Shop
A few months ago, I left my job as a full-time college professor after doing that work for 17 years. Even though I had a fair amount of discretionary time in that job, and I also worked from home during the summers,...
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Dreams Are Made, Not Found
One of the most pervasive ideas in Western culture is the concept of āfinding your dreams.ā No one knows for sure where this idea came from. The idea goes something like this: the main purpose of your life,...
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Bring Your āBā Game
Do you struggle with being a perfectionist? Perfectionism is the tendency to get paralyzed by the idea that your work is never good enough. Perfectionists imagine there is a standard out there and they can never reach...
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Why Not You?
One of the most helpful perspectives we can adopt as writers is understanding that we donāt have an objective view of reality. This is hard to hear because most of us naturally believe we see things as they are. We...
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Life is Not a Multiple-Choice Test
There is a common trait among successful writers, and it has nothing to do with skill, talent, genre, or style. Instead, it has everything to do with taking responsibility for your own life choices. Most people are...
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Listen and Learn
Have you ever sat in a coffee shop and listened to the conversations happening around you? Itās fascinating. 99% of the time, people are only talking about themselves. Almost everyone in every social situation makes a...
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Vincent Pugliese: Generosity is the Key to Book Marketing Success
There are many keys to your success as a writer and author. Writing a great book is an important part of it, but there are other important things as well. One of those components is book marketing, which can seem like...
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Chad Allen: Secrets to Building Your Author Platform
Platformā¦ it's one of those words that feels mysterious, intimidating, and maybe even confusing to many authors. You've heard that you need a platform and you're willing to do the work, but why do you need one and how...
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Most People Will Love It
We writers often talk about the reasons we write. But what are the reasons we donāt write? What keeps us from writing? Several things probably come to mind: procrastination, not enough time, and not feeling creative,...
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The Whole World is Your Writing Desk
If you have ever worked on a deadline, you understand the frustration of writing conditions that are not ideal. This can be a challenge if you think you can only write in certain conditions. The weather has to be just...
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Is It Helping You Get the Writing Done?
Here is a question to consider: what activities actually produce writing? This is not a trick question, but a serious one. Why? Because itās easy for us to fall under the spell of doing writing-related activities...
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