Pre-work: Before you start your book (3+ hours)

Before you start your book, you need to do some pre-work on your mindset, commitment to the project, and understanding of what's really involved. Pre-work step 1: Your

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You can be an author: The myth of the natural writer

You – right now, today – have what it takes to be an author. If you're not, could this myth be getting in your way? When you hear

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Do you know enough to write a book?

Would-be authors ask me whether they know enough to write a book all the time. It’s in the top 3 concerns people have about writing a book –

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Quick fix pitfalls for authors

If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you’ve seen a lot from me about how to make writing easier and how to keep your book from

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Keep Your Work Safe

Over the last few weeks I’ve been writing the first draft of a book about writing a book about your business. As I was preparing to print the

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How a Writing Ritual Puts You in Control of Your Creativity

Have you thought about your writing ritual lately? Rituals are powerful. We all already know that. If rituals weren’t powerful, we wouldn’t see so many of them in,

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How to Write Like You Talk to Your Friends

When you learn to write like you talk to your friends, you stop getting blocked In a blog post from 2011, Seth Godin famously pointed out: ‘No one

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The Stories of Our Lives

If you’ve come across Donald Miller’s Building a Story Brand (2017) – or work by anyone who’s been influenced by him – you’ll know that story and narrative

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Half Lives

I recently asked a former client, Lucy Jane Santos, to write a post about her recently published book, Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium. I edited some

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Jump in: Be a Fearless Writer

Before a swimming lesson when I was about two years old I jumped in at the deep end of the pool. I loved jumping into the water, so

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