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Why Not You?

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 ...

Listen and Learn

Have you ever sat in a coffee shop and listened to the conversations happening around you? It’s fascinating. 99% of the time, people are only ...

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 ...

The Whole World is Your Writing Desk

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?

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

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 ...

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 ...

Louis L’Amour’s Writing Secret

Has this ever happened to you? You block out time on your calendar, you get your pen or pencil—or computer—ready, and you sit down at ...

Do You Love to Write?

Citizen Kane is universally recognized as one of the greatest films of all time. Orson Welles and his collaborators created a masterpiece that was well ...

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 ...