Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | Google Play If you’ve been listening to my podcast or reading my blog for any length of time, you know that I encourage you to do things that are scary. I’ve been getting into short story writing recently, and I recently dug this one out of the … Read more
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | Google Play When you think of ways to connect with your audience and add value to them, what comes to mind? What usually focus on the more flashy forms of marketing such as social media, Amazon algorithms or Facebook ads. But there’s a way to connect with … Read more
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | Google Play In a world of equality and opportunity, we usually talk about power as if it’s a bad thing. But power is like time, money, or any other resource. It can be used for good or for bad. Writers don’t think about what we do in terms of power. We use words … Read more
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | Google Play One of the tropes that seems to follow creative types around is the myth of the “tortured artist.” The myth goes something like this: creative work is very, very difficult, and it requires the artist to give their blood, sweat, and tears to their creative work. This tortured artist myth has been … Read more
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | Google Play Do you remember what it feels like to be criticized for your writing? Different memories come flooding back for different people. Maybe it was in junior high, when a teacher pointed out all your mistakes. Maybe it was in college when you submitted an essay to a contest, and you didn’t even … Read more
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | Google Play If you were to make a list of the most creative people from the last hundred years, Steve Jobs would be close to the top of the list. As the co-founder of Apple, he was in large part responsible for many of the devices and apps we use today, such as the … Read more
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | Google Play What does it mean to be successful as a writer? It’s a simple question—you might say even deceptively simple. Why? Because we don’t often stop to think about how we define success. We are so accustomed to certain metrics that we seldom question our ideas of success. Like a dog chasing a … Read more
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | Google Play The holiday season is in full swing, and most everyone is thinking about the gifts they are going to give others. While we’re probably spending a lot of time on Amazon or looking around local stores, the best gifts come from who we are, not just what we buy. As a writer, you … Read more
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | Google Play There are a lot of challenging aspects of being a writer. There are a lot of potential roadblocks. There’s our time management, sifting through creative ideas, staying inspired, figuring out publishing channels, building an audience, and so on and so on. But in my experience, some of the biggest obstacles come from … Read more