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How To Deal With Other People’s Expectations Of Your Writing
Would You Like An Extra Month Of Writing Time?
Are You Tortured Because You’re A Really Slow Writer
Should You Stop Writing Because You’re A Bit Too Weird?
Want An Escape Route From Your Day Job? Your Book Won’t Provide That
Want An Easy And Realistic Way To Achieve What’s Important To You?
The Only Way To Beat Resistance Is To Do The Work
Why It’s Hard To Write, Even If You Really Want To
Writing a Novel Is Like Doing An Archaeological Dig
Do You Want To Smash Your Time Management?
Don’t Shy Away From Tricky Topics
How To Be Content With Your Writing Pace
Do You Need To Lower Your Writing Expectations?
Would You Really Write More If You Didn’t Have A Job?
Is 2022 The Year You Write That Book?
Here are all the older blogs. Happy reading…
Yes, you will piss people off when you do your creative work
When you decide to get serious and work consistently on your creative project there will be some people who don’t like it. Your friend who’s always been the great procrastinator will be jealous of your efforts. They may be critical of them. Your spouse will sometimes...
The self-help books make it look easy. Why is life still so sh*t?
You’ve read all the self-help books. The Secret says that you just have to imagine it and it is yours. Feel The Fear and do it anyway says you can handle it no matter how scary it is. Eat, Pray, Love says it is OK to eat lots of pasta and wear bigger jeans. If you...
Is your creativity worth the sacrifice?
Creativity often involves sacrifice. You may have had to give up a job that took up too much of your mental and physical energy so that you have more time to create. You may have forgone a social life so that you can make the most of your time and do something...
Piece of art gone wrong? Don’t worry, you’re still moving forward
Have you ever spent a long time working on a picture, a piece of music or an article and then arrived at the conclusion that what you have produced is crap? It's art gone wrong. All that time wasted. You’ve toiled away, doing your best and the result of your effort...
Are you creatively depleted?
It feels like your head has literally dried up and just won’t think. Ideas have stopped coming. Even if they did arrive you are not sure that you have the energy to do anything good with them. You’ve felt this coming on for a while but just kept pushing on with the...
Is it hard to accept yourself as a creative person?
It can be hard to accept yourself as a creative person. You might feel that you are different in the way that you think. Maybe you wish that you weren’t so sensitive. Perhaps in your job you feel like you are a square peg in a round hole, but you can’t afford not to...
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