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Author Mindset

There’s Only One Writer You Need To Compare Yourself To

Reflect on the last year (or another set period) of your writing life. Look at how far you’ve come in your writing, your creativity, your life. 

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Write To Create Deep Value

You make your writing mean something by making it valuable. How do you create real value in a world of noisy, pointless content?

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Why Your First Novel Is The Most Important Book You’ll Ever Write

Your first novel will teach you something that no other novel you write ever will.

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Writing to Market and Authentic Creative Expression

We all deserve to have readers and get paid for our writing, but how do we write to market and stay true to our creative integrity?

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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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Are You in Your Comfort Zone or Your Zone of Genius?

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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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