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Self-Sabotage In The Writer’s Life

We all have subconscious habits limiting our creative potential, but we might not all know how to identify these habits, let alone change them. Here’s how to do both.

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How To Stop Wasting Time As A Writer

Stop wasting time as a writer by ditching waiting. Discover how holding out for the perfect conditions is holding your writing life back.

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When To Keep Writing And Resist The Urge To Quit

Sometimes there are excellent reasons to quit a writing project. Sometimes it is best for us to push on through and finish a novel or a story, even though everything inside is begging us to quit.

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Read This Before You Buy More Writing Courses

Writing courses can only teach so much. The real learning that all writers need to go through comes from actually writing.

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How To Be More Creative? Try Kaleidoscopic Creativity

Kaleidoscopic Creativity is combining different creative practices, patterns, processes and tools in order to create a rich, infinitely detailed, ever changing and always astoundingly beautiful creative life.

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Write What You Know? Write What You DON’T Know

Write what you know is valuable writing advice to a point. Writing what you DON’T know is the gateway to discovery, creativity, and growth.

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What’s The Biggest Writing Mistake?

All writers make mistakes, but there is one huge mistake that’s often hard to see that all too many writers make.

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You Don’t Have To Use An AI Writing Assistant

AI technology will continue to move through and change writing and publishing, but you can continue to write, just as you always have, without using AI, if that’s your choice.

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How To Use An AI Writing Assistant (And Stay Human)

AI is a writing tool that can help authors expand their creative thinking, while still being an authentic human writer.

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How A Play Project Can Inspire Your Writing

Play Projects are a system of pursuing ideas purely for the sake of creativity and fun, and are the antidote to writer’s burnout.

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