Real Talk for Writers
with Isabel Sterling
Author & Master Certified Coach
Welcome to the third in our four-part series of essential skills for published novelists!
As a reminder, the overall categories are:
- Essential Writing Skills
- Essential Marketing Skills
- Essential Emotional Skills (today's post!)
- Essential Business Skills
Before I share the essential emoti...
Congrats! You did the thing!
You finished your novel and sent it off to a critique partner, your agent, or your editor.
Now what?
For many authors, the time between projects can feel strange. You might feel unmoored, adrift, or--most insidious of all--lazy for not having an active project goin...
Regular celebration is essential to crafting a burnout-free, sustainable fiction career.
Yet celebration is also the most commonly skipped -- or delayed -- parts of the process I teach.
Authors will tell me that it's "too soon" to celebrate when they get a new book deal because it's not "officia...
