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152. The Solution to Everything
Your mindset is the most powerful tool in your author toolkit. Every challenge you face in writing, publishing, and life can be improved–if not outright solved!–by learning how to manage your mind. In this episode,...
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151. Managing Your Author Finances
Keeping track of your author finances does not have to be overwhelming or time consuming. In fact, it can also be fun and help provide additional motivation to continue to grow your career. Today, I’m walking you...
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150. Emergency Writing Protocols
You want to write consistently… but life keeps getting in the way. There’s an emergency at work. The kids are home sick from school. Your chronic migraines are acting up. Your friends want to surprise you with a night...
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149. How to Meet a Tight Deadline
If you’ve decided not to ask for a deadline extension–but you also don’t want to burnout–this is the episode for you.
Learn my 5-step process for tackling tight deadlines so you can work hard without risking...
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148. When (& How) to Ask for a Deadline Extension
Your deadline is fast approaching, but you still have a lot of work left to do on your novel. Should you ask for more time or power through? What will your editor think if you need more time?
And if you DO decide you...
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147. Author Goal Setting: Reframed
Happy New Year! Have you set goals for the upcoming year yet? If so, there’s a good chance you made yourself a list of project to-dos rather than setting a goal that focuses on how you want to EXPERIENCE your author...
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146. Emotional Time Travel (Embodying Future Success)
Do you go after writerly milestones, expecting to feel happy when you meet them, only to find yourself disappointed and moving the goal post further away?Â
Do you feel emotionally disconnected from your work and then...
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145. Accepting Where You Are
When you tell yourself that you’re “behind” or that you “should be further along” (whether in your draft or in your career overall), you inadvertently make it harder to achieve your writing and publishing goals. In...
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144. Essential Skills for Debut Authors
As a debut author, you've worked for years (if not decades!) honing your writing and storytelling skills. Yet you're ALSO a beginner in so many ways. Editing under deadline, planning a book launch, and navigating the...
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143. Debut vs Mid-Career Agents with Dahlia Adler
It's normal to have multiple agents throughout your career. As you grow as an author, you need different things out of the author/agent relationship.
On today's podcast, Dahlia Adler (author of Home Field Advantage,...
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142. Feeling Bad & Doing It Anyway
The prioritization of a sustainable, joyful writing life doesn't mean that every writing session feels like rainbows shooting out of your fingertips. Sometimes, you feel bad (because of personal, writing, or...
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141. Trusting Your Process
If you struggle to trust your writing process–or you often doubt your ability to produce a novel despite a history of finished projects–this episode is for you.
You’ll learn how to look back at previous experiences to...
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