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Fluff up your confidence with an annual review

I’m not immune to the stuff that makes life feel deflated. I fall prey to the things my clients do: forgetting our milestone wins, getting overwhelmed, and letting doubt and insecurity into the writing room. Luckily I believe in walking my talk. I don’t ask my clients to do anything I don’t do myself. So […]

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Need career or life advice? We need you!

I’m part of a rotating lineup of mentors on the SPARKED podcast, a podcast that explores how to find and do work that makes you come alive. And we’re looking for special guest “wisdom-seekers” to share the moment you’re in, then pose questions to Jonathan and the Sparked Braintrust to be answered, “on air.” To […]

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The biggest problem with online learning

I recently signed up for an online course delivered by email. It was a seven-day program, and it didn’t cost much. I was excited about it. But guess what? Guess how many days of the program I actually showed up for? You’re right – three. You probably guessed this because you have likely done this […]

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Use life’s ‘disruptions’ to focus on your writing projects

I’ve just topped 40,000 words on the novel I’m writing. My goal is 50,000. I’d hoped to reach that deadline before I leave for London tomorrow. Alas, it was too ambitious of a goal* for me.  I realized I wouldn’t achieve the goal about a week ago. It would be easy to go limp and […]

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Do you write while traveling?

Travel is one of those incredibly personal things. Many of my clients hope to get a lot of writing done while traveling. And some do. But if they don’t know how they write/travel, they can easily burden themselves with unrealistic expectations. It’s much better to plan according to your style of travel than to lug […]

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Five Benefits from Writing a Novel Now

The other day in the Impulse Writing Club, our Writual Blessing was Writing heals you. This Blessing seemed particularly apt for the week’s writing.  I’m just over 20,000 words into my novel in progress. There’s a lot to write, and my deadline is November 17th. We leave for a vacation in London that day and […]

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Flashes of Paris Inspiration – Creativity in Action

If you’re like me, when you travel, you get a ton of inspiration. When I lead writing and creativity workshops, I invite people to gather their inspiration in one place. I call this ‘Flashes of Inspiration’. It’s a page at the back of my notebook where I write down all the wacky ideas I get. […]

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A graceful return to your project

Have you ever been pulled away from a project? Perhaps you feared it was over and you wouldn’t get back to it. I know the feeling! Now that I am back from France, it’s time to focus on my book. I took a hiatus during the summer and early fall. Turns out it’s a lot […]

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You will hate this

I wish it weren’t true but sometimes you will HATE writing your book. I used to think that when we love our topic, we should love writing about it. And that writing a book should be a great adventure, start to finish. I was writing yet another draft of my novel. I had to take […]

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The biggest surprise about writing a book

Knowing this will save you a lot of angst. You will be caught off-guard when you discover this: Writing a book is different than writing anything else. Whaaaat? Here’s the problem. We were taught how to write in school. Everyone writes! Should be easy, right? We think because we’ve written blogs or articles that we […]

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