Last week I hosted my Q&A show #AsktheEditor for my private community More to the Story (if you’re a nonfiction writer and you’d like to join me you can request an invite here). One of the questions I got was: How do you overcome your own lack of self-confidence? Whenever I get a question like […]
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Over the weekend my husband Jeremy and I planted a cherry tree. We had finished landscaping the backyard last year, with two fruit trees: a cocktail (more officially called a multi-graft stone fruit tree) and an apple. Sadly the apple tree didn’t make it, so we decided to replace it with a cherry. We brought
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Do you know who Tony Hawk is? The only reason I know about him is because of his video game that was super popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s. I’m pretty sure my brother (who’s also named Tony) had the game for his PlayStation. Tony Hawk is the most famous and best vertical
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I can’t tell you how many times I talk to writers about joining Nonfiction Bootcamp, my coaching and editing program for women writing nonfiction books, and they tell me things like: Well, I just need to do a little bit more work before I am ready. Well, I should be able to finish on my
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Over the weekend my business partner Karen and I hosted Eula Biss for a craft seminar that she gave for our clients. If you don’t know Eula Biss, she’s a giant in the literary and writing community—she’s an essayist and an author who has written several New York Times best sellers. Her most recent book
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Recently I read the book The Genius Zone by Gay Hendricks (he’s also the author of another book I love called The Big Leap). It’s all about figuring out how to spend the most time in your life doing only the thing that is your true creative genius. If that sounds like a lofty goal,
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Recently I saw someone post on Instagram: Asking for what you want is some powerful magic. The sentiment was along the lines of, nothing in life is ever handed to you. You must struggle and toil to get what you want. And you should never ask for what you want, because you don’t deserve it
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Today I talked to one of my writer/business friends who was telling me about how she feels like she’s in a groove with her writing routine for the first time in a long time. She gets up every day at 5 a.m., gets to her writing desk and computer by 5:30 and writes until 8:30.
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I’ve seen a lot of folks sharing online, some I know, some I just follow, about starting new jobs this month—which is AWESOME. What a way to start a new year, with a true fresh start. It’s like wiping the slate clean and the whole rest of the entire year is just full of possibilities
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