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Author Mindset

The Gambling Mindset and the Professional Writer

The writer with the best chance of publishing success, is the writer who adopts a gambler’s mindset.

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How To Be More Human in An AI Driven World

As we learn to live and work alongside AI, it’s more important than ever for writers to be more human. How do we even think about being “more human”?

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Will Digital Minimalism Help Your Creative Living?

What could an experiment in digital minimalism do for you and your creative life? More time to write? More time to think? Deeper thinking? Better writing?

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The Best Way To Market A Book

Marketing is actually really simple, not gross, and can be fun. But to understand how that works, we first have to understand what book marketing truly is.

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Are “Shoulds” Ruining Your Creativity?

Should statements are misaligned pressures and unfocused obligations. Left unchecked, SHOULDs can ruin a creative mind, but managed, they can be a powerful tool.

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Writing Though Stress

When life’s stresses get the better of us, how does a writer keep getting words down?

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What Does Writer’s Resistance Really Look Like?

Writers and other creatives talk a lot about Resistance. Do you really know what Resistance feels like? Will you know when Resistance has its claws in you?

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Creating Your Author Business Mindset

If we change the way we think about business, then running an author business becomes just as fun and creative as the rest of the writing life.

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Live Outside Your Writing Life

We need to live in order to have something to write about. How do writers live a life worth writing about?

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How To Write A Life Changing Book

If we want to write a life-changing book, we must write the books that will change our lives first. That’s the only guarantee.

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