How to Reload Your Book
Been away from your manuscript long enough that the story feels flat and writing has become a grind? You may not have lost your enthusiasm. You may simply need to reload the book.
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Ugly Success
Success rarely looks the way we imagine it. It isn’t always polished, confident, or accompanied by a triumphant soundtrack. More often, it’s messy, improvised, and held together with coffee, determination, and sheer stubbornness. Ugly success is still success—and it deserves far more credit than we give it.
The Magic Cookie Method of Writing Motivation
When writing starts to drag, the problem often isn’t laziness or lack of discipline — it’s that you’ve lost sight of what you’re writing toward. In this post, I explore the “magic cookie” method: finding the one scene, moment, or beat in your story that excites you enough to pull you through the difficult middle. Because sometimes the best cure for procrastination is knowing there’s something wonderful waiting a few chapters ahead.
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The Box Is the Point
We think hitting our goals will make us happy—but for creative work, the real joy is in the struggle. Pressure and constraints aren’t obstacles; they’re the fuel. This post explores why the box is the point, and what to do when it starts to feel too tight.
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Why Writing Feels So Damn Hard (Sometimes): It’s Not You, It’s Physics
Creative inertia is real. Whether you’ve stepped away from your novel for five minutes or five months, restarting always feels harder than continuing. It’s not a personal failing—it’s physics. Here’s how to beat the resistance and get back into flow, one “Just Start” at a time.
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If Your To-Do List Stresses You Out, You’re Doing It Wrong
Most writers think they’re breaking down their tasks—but if you’re still staring at “Revise novel” on your to-do list and feeling stuck, you’ve got a project, not a task. Here’s how to break your work down into do-able chunks that actually get done.
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Your Genre is Killing You — Here’s How to Break Up With It
There’s a question that haunts a lot of indie fiction writers, particularly after the third burned-out book in a series they don’t even want to read anymore:
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