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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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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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