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The Best Way to Stop Being a Perfectionist

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By Kent Sanders

As I mentioned yesterday in my podcast intro, I’m forgoing the usual weekend introduction and just diving right in. This weekend, I’m doing a couple ...

Tips for Writing at a Coffee Shop

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By Kent Sanders

A few months ago, I left my job as a full-time college professor after doing that work for 17 years. Even though I had a ...

Dreams Are Made, Not Found

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By Kent Sanders

One of the most pervasive ideas in Western culture is the concept of “finding your dreams.” No one knows for sure where this idea came ...

Bring Your ‘B’ Game

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By Kent Sanders

Do you struggle with being a perfectionist? If so, here is a strategy that can help you overcome it immediately. But first, what is perfectionism? ...

Why Not You?

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By Kent Sanders

One of the most helpful perspectives we can adopt as writers is understanding that we don’t have an objective view of reality. This is hard ...

Life is Not a Multiple-Choice Test

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By Kent Sanders

There is a common trait among successful writers, and it has nothing to do with skill, talent, genre, or style. Instead, it has everything to ...

Most People Will Love It

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By Kent Sanders

We writers often talk about the reasons we write. But what are the reasons we don’t write? What keeps us from writing? Several things probably ...

The Whole World is Your Writing Desk

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By Kent Sanders

If you have ever worked on a deadline, you understand the frustration of writing conditions that are not ideal. This can be a challenge if ...

Is It Helping You Get the Writing Done?

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By Kent Sanders

Here is a question to consider: what activities actually produce writing? This is not a trick question, but a serious one. Why? Because it’s easy ...

Commit to Doing the Work

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By Kent Sanders

We writers love to create stories. And why not? There is something fun about creating a fantasy world, living in it for a while, and ...