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Your Words Are Powerful

In a world where we value equality, we usually talk about power as if it’s a bad thing. But power is like time, money, or ...

My Dad Hand-Wrote a Book in Two Months

Today, I want to share a quick story about my dad. I hope it gives you some inspiration to keep going. My father, Don Sanders, ...

Create a “Stop Doing” List

Today, we’re concluding a short series on being more productive. Many people, including myself, create a task list each day. We also call this a ...

Are You Publishing Your Work?

This week, we’ve been talking about ways to be a more productive writer. I have often talked about the importance of finishing a first draft ...

Feeling Stuck? Write Backward

This week, we’ve been talking about ways to be a more productive writer. One of the reasons why we get stuck in our writing is ...

So Good They Can’t Ignore You

One of the hardest things for any of us writers to swallow is being ignored. We work for months, or in some cases years, on ...

What Writers Can Learn from Citizen Kane

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

Become a Person of Interest

In the law-enforcement community, the phrase “person of interest” is used to describe someone who may be involved in an ongoing investigation or connected with ...