Discipline & Motivation

15 Things I Wish I’d Known About Full Time Writing When I First Started Writing (2018 Edition)

I was tickled pink when James Scott Bell, writing guru and suspense author, and also one of my professional heroes, wrote a post a few days ago, “What I Wish I’d Known When I Started Writing”. He starts the post with: Next year will be my 24th as a professional writer. So I knew I […]

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What To Do When Writing Every Day Feels Like A Chore

  Most writers procrastinate about writing because (most often) they don’t have a good enough handle on their story. Others doubt themselves and think their writing sucks, or fear success, and twitter away their time for those reasons. Then there are writers who have reached a point where they loathe writing. If you’ve never hated

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Is It Really Burnout?

  If you’ve lost your get-up-and-go and loathe the idea of writing, you might be tempted to self-diagnose and decide you’re suffering from burnout. Alas, this might merely be yet another creative form of resistance.  I’ve seen several group discussions lately, where “burnout” is tossed around casually, as a reason why writers don’t write. But

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5 Powerful Strategies to Defeat Resistance And Get More Written – Part 6 and Final

  Strategy Number Five:  Organization and Structure This is the last of a six-part post series on defeating resistance (with a small “r”).  To start at the beginning of the series, click here. Let’s get straight into the organization and structure hacks that will help you sit down and write when you say you want to,

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5 Powerful Strategies to Defeat Resistance And Get More Written – Part 5

  Strategy Number Four: Motivation Hacks   In the past few weeks we have looked at your mindset, the trick of just starting and adjusting your environment to induce you to sit down to write. Ultimately, there comes a point where you make a decision to write…or not.  Before you even reach that decision point, though, there

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5 Powerful Strategies to Defeat Resistance And Get More Written – Part 4

  Strategy Number Three: Environment.   How did you go with just starting? In part four of our series on defeating resistance, this week I’m looking at the environment where you write. Sometimes, you have no control over the physical environment in which you write. The local coffee shop is going to be noisy, although there

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5 Powerful Strategies to Defeat Resistance And Get More Written – Part 3

  Strategy Number Two: Just Start.   Last week we looked at some of the mental blocks that help resistance get a foothold in your brain. When resistance is at its most active, though, is the few moments before you sit down and start writing, to about twenty minutes after you have “started” (if you actually

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5 Powerful Strategies to Defeat Resistance And Get More Written – Part 2

  Strategy Number One: Mindset Today we’re looking at the first strategy of five approaches to defeating resistance and getting more written. Last week [here] I explained why you need these five strategies. All of us do. Resistance is built into the human psyche. How you approach resistance, deal with it, and how you think

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5 Powerful Strategies to Defeat Resistance And Get More Written

  What is resistance? Are you a victim of it? Probably! The term “Resistance” was first coined by Steven Pressfield in his book, The War of Art. To Pressfield, Resistance is an external entity against whom artists must wage war to win at the game of writing.  For him, Resistance always has a capital “R”.   As

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