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You Don’t Need to Be Brilliant

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By Kent Sanders

We live in a culture that celebrates brilliance. Everywhere you look, people worship the best and the brightest among us. The internet, magazines, movies, social ...

Just Keep Writing

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By Kent Sanders

In the Pixar movie Finding Nemo, we meet Marlin, a clownfish who has lost his son Nemo. On his way to find him, he meets ...

Why Are You So Busy?

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By Kent Sanders

The most common frustration about writing is that it takes time. There is nothing that keeps people from writing more than the idea that they ...

The Infamous Vomit Draft

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By Kent Sanders

There are lots of enemies we have to battle as writers. One of the most ferocious ones is self-editing. Self-editing is the tendency to edit ...

5 Things You Can Stop Worrying About

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By Kent Sanders

In a world where things are changing faster than ever, it’s easy to feel stressed about every little thing. Part of building a long-term career ...

Use Pockets of Time for Reading

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By Kent Sanders

We all know that reading is a vital part of the creative process. You need to have other inputs such as listening to great talks, ...

You Can’t Plot Out Your Life

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By Kent Sanders

If you spend enough time with fiction authors, you will eventually hear two terms: pantsers and plotters. Pantsers prefer to write by the “seat of ...

How to Multiply Your Ideas

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By Kent Sanders

If you’ve ever found yourself fresh out of ideas, you can quickly get more by using an exercise called “Idea Mating.” Let’s say you’re writing ...