No one can tell me when I’m getting overwhelmed. Pretty much anyone can tell when I’m getting overwhelmed. These two facts are in my mind the moment I open my eyes Tuesday morning. They have taken me more time to acknowledge than I would like to admit. And yet if there’s one thing I know, it’s that the things we
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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou For a long time, I believed the common wisdom about being a more productive writer. I took the usual advice about setting small steps, getting on a schedule and visualizing the end goal. But I could never follow through. Was there something wrong with me? Why couldn’t I stick with the
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I received a reply email from an author. “Looks like I have my work cut out for me,” she wrote. She’d been a client for several months and I’d sent my final edit laying out several things she’d need to do before and after sending it to the publisher. Yes, you do have your work cut out, I wanted to
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Writing a book is hard work. Everyone knows that. But what most people don’t realize is that it’s also a skill. And if that’s true, it can be learned. That’s why I love teaching my story course. You have to admit, the fact that it’s so easy to email a lesson, show how to apply it, and then evaluate what someone
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