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How to Choose a Word Count Goal for Your Book
The development stage of writing a book can be daunting. You have all these ideas, many of them still murky and inchoate, and you’re working towards giving them shape. There are so many unknowns, so it’s hard to know what
How to Write About Love (Without the Sap)
Our hearts are bursting! Our lashes are fluttering! Butterflies in our stomachs! Love is in the air…and so are a lot of clichés and sappy, chocolate-covered metaphors. When we write about love, we risk enducing eye-rolls from our readers with
How to Defeat Imposter Syndrome
Often the biggest barriers are the ones that just keep us from getting started. When we work with writers, they have this great idea that is just itching to be brought to life. But many wonder if they’re good enough
Pillars are the Secret for Marketing a Book
The most consistently difficult transition that I see authors make is moving from writing their book to talking about their book. The transition is a difficult one because you have to reset the way you think about your book, your
Sneaky Ways Writers Procrastinate
We know that giving up goals or resolutions isn’t something that happens all at once in a snap decision. They slip away from us in a thousand little ways and before we know it, so much time has passed and we
Measuring Writing Productivity Beyond Word Count
If you write a thousand words a day, you can write a book in about two months. This seems like a rigid, no-debate-about-it kind of fact. It’s math, after all. Words are easy to count, so it seems like a
