One of the most important lessons that I learned both as an author and as someone stepping out into entrepreneurship is that all of the advice that is given about how to write, market, and sell your books (or product or service) is that the advice works for that...
We’ve all heard of critique groups or critique circles where one or two authors are in the “hot seat” each meeting and everyone else will read and comment on their work. And some might think that’s what weekly author coaching looks like;...
You sit down to write, but your heart is heavy. Maybe something happened and you’re feeling hurt, alone, frustrated, or scared. Maybe something unraveled that you thought would last. Or maybe you’re in a spot where the voices in your head just aren’t...
In her book Radical Compassion, Tara Brach talks about a Buddha statue that sat dull and covered in mud for many decades, if not centuries. Everyone that it was a dull statue. Nothing much to look at. Nothing to see there. And then there was an earthquake. Cracks...
One of the biggest frustrations that authors have is when the words won’t flow. Call it writer’s block or don’t. The truth is, staring at a screen or a piece of paper and not being able to write anything sucks. There are online arguments probably...
The way my writing day is structured I get two, sometimes three, opportunities to drop 1000 words on various projects. I like writing different projects every day. It makes my brain purr. I feel like I’m accomplishing a lot and even though the progress on each...
There’s a lot going on in the world right now. There’s the nonstop political shenanigans that give shenanigans a bad name, because those are supposed to be fun, right? There’s exploding diarrhea because who doesn’t want that in the heat of...
Sitting in a writing group meeting, knowing that you have years, decades even, more experience than the people in the room, and yet feeling as passed over as dried old turkey a week after Thanksgiving hurts. It creates grief. The never-ending spiral of “what...
In my last blog I talked about how the mind-body divide, or in today’s terms, the focus on work-life balance seems to have broken career balance. And as soon as I hit publish on that blog, I could hear the questions coming. If I’m not supposed to focus on...
The common way we think about work-life or life-career balance is that there is a time for “life” and a time for your career. And like that odd mixture of cranberry sauce and gravy at an (American) Thanksgiving plate, the two really shouldn’t meet....
