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Three Lessons James Clear s Atomic Habits Offers Authors for Reaching Their Writing Goals Jen B Green Since it was published in 2018 James Clear s book Atomic Habits has sold over fifty million copies and been translated into fifty languages The book offers tips for any adult looking to improve their lives with better habits but hellip
For Three Authors and Their Partners a Writing Career Offers a Chance to Show They Care In the solitary world of indie authorship where the journey of crafting words into stories is often a lone endeavor the role of a supportive partner becomes immeasurably valuable Beyond the quiet hours spent typing away at keyboards and hellip
Having coached more than six thousand individual authors I see burnout on a daily basis The biggest cause of burnout in this industry is not overwork It s unrealistic expectations Let s look at the mental math involved One work equals one outcome in our brains sort of like how if I plant water and weed one plot hellip
For Creatives Doing Nothing Can Be Essential to the Process Can you tell the difference between wasting time and giving an idea space to develop Creativity coach and poet Mark McGuinness has a simple rule of thumb Procrastination happens before hard work he writes in his book Productivity for Creative People and incubation happens after hellip
Now that we re more than six months in can you say you charged into this year replenished and ready With a barrage of external stressors including political divisiveness inflation weather related tragedies and health concerns it would be easy to guess that affirmative answers to that question are low Compound that with the flurry of life hellip
A thought came to me the other night while I was down on my knees Alas I was not praying but cleaning out the litter box and while ten percent of my brain pondered the eternal verity of dust to dust the other ninety percent was in a fit of frustration after a misunderstanding with hellip
What to Consider When Shiny Object Syndrome Threatens Your Work in Progress Having a surge of creativity can be a great feeling Everywhere you look you seem to find new ideas But while this can be exciting it can also make it draining to progress in your current work Your half written drafts will be dropped You may hellip
When Building a Relationship with Your Fans It s OK to Share About Life Beyond Your Books Authors everywhere want fans to love and purchase their books We spend every day marketing our books to readers and potential readers but sometimes we forget we need to market ourselves to our readers as well Fans want to hellip
Turn on the news Read a paper Scroll through social media No matter where you go it s hard to avoid today s world It seeps in through your pores even when you try your best to switch everything off Go to the grocery store and mawkish headlines greet you near the entrance On the radio advertisements hellip
It s All Been Done Before But Only You Can Do It Your Way What makes a story original The question seems simple enough until you try to answer it Plot alone certainly can t make a book feel unique Most writing resources agree that the world s stories can be distilled into one of a distinct set hellip
Angie Martin When dealing with mental illness it s often hard to power through the low points let alone write your next book But there are several things you can focus on during these times as well as every day to bring normalcy to your life as much as possible The National Institute on Mental Health hellip
Angie Martin With one in five Americans dealing with mental health problems mental well being is becoming a bigger and more important topic than ever before Mental illness has been suggested to share a link with creativity with famed cases such as Edgar Allen Poe Sylvia Plath Mark Twain and Stephen King and a plethora of hellip
When your creative career is designed solely around stability you may be tempted to resort to strict word counts long hours and crushing deadlines That s a classic make more to earn more model A creative career works best when it s diversified Steady eddy income 8211 however small at first 8211 is a worthy goal But how do you make it grow Once you hellip
Four R s to Find Your Essential Work Instead of Rabbit Holes You ve heard people talk about creating a minimum viable product How about a minimum viable process Your time and energy are valuable and limited resources How much work do you really need to create and market your books Use these 4 R s to hellip
The Power of Slow in the Writing World The indie author life can easily swamp authors with opportunity The writing life can turn into a weary slog that never seems to bring success any closer What if there was another way to supercharge your career Rest Rest is the key to making connections gaining insights and hellip
Practice Gratitude nbsp Instead of comparing yourself with others try comparing yourself with where you were a year ago Focus on how far you ve come not how far you have to go and you ll realize how successful you already are We ve all been there We ve all done it We ve all compared ourselves with others We look hellip
We can t escape it we all lead busy lives and we only have a finite amount of time and energy to fit everything in It s little wonder our writing ends up getting pushed further and further down the to do list So how do we give it the priority it deserves in the time we have available hellip
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Gill Fernley Indie authors have so much to think about and learn and that s before you even tackle the world s most enormous to do list There s writing editing finding beta and ARC readers social media emailing your list and on and on Oh yes and having a life So how do you get it all done hellip
Changing Hats to Match Your Mindset Elaine Bateman What hat do you wear to start your working day No I m not asking about your workwear fashion choices this is about mindset It s about being in the moment and training yourself to focus on the right things at the right time It s well documented that the hellip
The What Next of NaNoWriMo Merri Mayweather December is finally here and we have crossed the NaNoWriMo finish line First and foremost regardless of the final word count congratulations This is where we take a self inventory How are we feeling Do we want to celebrate because we re happy Or is there a strong urge to hellip
The Psyche of a Psychological Thriller Angie Martin We ve all heard of Gone Girl The Girl on the Train and Shutter Island among others We open the front cover of those heart pounding nail biting books with trepidation and shaking fingers as tension floods our veins We know we ll be up all night because we simply cannot hellip
Arm Yourself to Beat Imposter Syndrome In this final article on imposter syndrome we re going to take a deeper look at the psychology behind it and offer a tool kit for healthier thinking Everyone has a mental filter built from our experiences our personality and our environment It 8217 s this filter that leads us to unknowingly hellip
In last month s issue we looked at what imposter syndrome is now we ll examine what it might look like why we have it and what we can do about it in order to better understand it Identifying Individuals react and respond differently to their experience of imposter syndrome Researchers found five common types they are hellip
We ve All Seen The Quote We are what we repeatedly do Excellence therefore is not an act but a habit Will Durant Not Aristotle Habits are funny things aren t they In Atomic Habits James Clear defines them as a routine or practice performed regularly an automatic response to a specific situation There are good hellip
Recognizing Imposter Syndrome This is part one of a three part Mindset mini series focusing on imposter syndrome You may or may not have heard of it you may or may not have experienced it but it s said to affect seven out of ten people Defining It s a term first coined by psychologists in 1978 and hellip
Resetting and restarting By the time you reach the editing stage you ve been working on your project for a long time Your creative brain might be tired Maybe you have doubts distractions overwhelm or you can t see your way forward Give yourself a fresh start with this M I N D S E T check up Motivation In the editing stage you are hellip
How to survive and thrive during the editing process One of the greatest challenges of becoming an author is getting your book edited without having a panic attack around Is this good enough and the even harder question Am I good enough I have three tips around conquering crippling criticism during the editing process 1 hellip
Being an author is often considered a lonely existence But secluding yourself to write feverishly and drink yourself to angst ridden death is now terribly out of fashion The authors of today are a new breed We have Facebook groups and accountability groups and meet at book fairs Clubhouse rooms conferences and writing retreats At any hellip
When the shine of a new story idea fades and the muddy middle beckons it is easy to lose interest especially with a shaky or problematic plot Giving up would be easy to do so how do we keep going The actions in the middle often depend on the story s outcome When the two cannot hellip
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