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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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Niche Down or Branch Out? Which Creative Career Strategy is Best?

Most of the widely heard publishing success stories come from writers who specialize over the long term. But creative diversification is an equally valid path to publishing success.

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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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How To Expand Your Creative Comfort Zone

How can we think about expanding the limits of our Comfort Zones into new and exciting dimensions, without stressing ourselves into failure?

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What’s The Worst Writing Advice?

All writing and publishing advice is subjective. Except this one piece of writing advice….

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Moving From “I Want To Write” To “I Have Written.”

Many of us WANT to write but really struggle to get the words onto the page. Here are a few scenarios that might explain this conundrum, and solutions to overcome them.

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Ways to Invest in Your Author Life

Just like any other area of our lives, our writing requires investment, too. Not just financially, but emotionally, mentally, and physically.

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The Writing World is Overcomplicated: Here’s How To Simplify It

In the modern writing and publishing world, the simple essence of what writing is really about too often gets buried under tangled layers upon tangled layers of complexity and extraneous demands. Here’s how to simplify it all.

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Are You Drowning in Writing Advice? 

With so much advice and guidance, and so many options for writers, it’s easy to drown in writing advice overwhelm. Here’s how to handle it.

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Are You Trying To Clear The Decks Before You Write?

Are you a writer who wants everything to be in order before starting your writing? Here’s how to get the writing done first, and why that might make all that other stuff even easier to complete.

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