Consistency, Courage, Creativity

Latest on Consistency, Courage, Creativity

Bring Your ‘B’ Game

lilgrac333 imdb Do you struggle with being a perfectionist? If so, here is a strategy that can help you overcome it immediately. But first, what ...

Life is Not a Multiple-Choice Test

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

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 ...

Become a Better Version of Yourself

For new writers, one of the most surprising elements of the craft is how much editing and revision it takes to produce good work. Until ...

3 Quick Lessons on Evaluating Your Writing

I’ve talked about this a few times here on the podcast before. But, just in case you haven’t heard, I left my teaching job at ...

Go Ahead and Jump

Van Halen was one of the greatest rock bands of the 1970s and 80s. Although they had a number of popular songs and albums, they ...

Been Rejected Lately? Join the Club.

We deal with a lot of obstacles as writers, but one of the biggest is rejection. Rejection can come in many forms. A publisher or ...

Learning from Happy Little Accidents

If you’re of “a certain age,” you probably remember watching Bob Ross on his TV show “The Joy of Painting,” which he hosted on PBS ...

Learning to Let Go

Courage is a theme that seems a lot of us have been talking about lately. For many people, the last couple of years have been ...

Put Yourself in Their Orbit

How do you respond to successful writers? The ones with bestselling books, large platforms, or lots of influence? When it comes to dealing with them, ...