"I don't want to add to the noise." Should you let this belief stop you?
As a teenager, my musical tastes gravitated to pop music. At the top of the list was an Nsync and Britney Spears collaboration. The...
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7 Practical Steps to Set up Your Email List and Grow your Reach
You’ve heard you’re supposed to have an email list. People have told you about lead magnets and opt-ins and freebies. But how are you...
A Simplistic How to Guide for Beginner's Success on Instagram
Instagram! The word either brings joy or dread. By the end of this post, I hope it brings you joy. Imagine feeling in control, making...
A Year on Instagram: 9 Mindset Shifts that Made me Love the Platform
You don’t have to look far for a study or story about social media’s deterioration of our mental health. During the pandemic and 2020...
How to Love Telling People You're a Writer without Sounding Crazy
You're mingling at a party with new people and a kind stranger asks you what you do for a living. You freeze. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "Uh, I'm a...
How to Make Progress by Seeing Rejection as an Opportunity
I’ll never forget one of the most painful experiences of my writing life. I was a college freelance writer working on a profile piece of...
How's Your Writing Life? Here's a Tool to Make it Better
Writing online can feel overwhelming, especially if you hope to write a self-published book someday. You’ve got to juggle your email and...
How to write an authentic blog post (or book!) people actually want to read
Raise your hand if you prefer the sound of an audience amening to crickets chirping. SAME. You pour your heart and soul into a blog post,...
My 3 pieces of advice to an amazing, balanced summer of writing and family
Anyone else ready to sit poolside with a sparkling water and a good book? Me too! Except this year, I’ll be kicking it at the community...
6 Reasons Why You Might Stop Writing + How to Avoid Them
Writing can be like trying to have a conversation with a friend while the news is blaring in the background. You want to pay attention to...
My Tried and True Favorite Journals to Help You Get Unstuck
As I write this blog post, I’m also writing an email series of mini-coaching sessions for writers who feel stuck and overwhelmed. In it,...
How to Find Your People and Increase Your Impact
“Our job as writers is to focus on one reader to serve. The outcome is not our business.” - Emily P. Freeman What emotions come up when...
20 prompts to get out of a rut and help you enjoy writing again
It’s mid-February, y’all. Statistically speaking, most of us have dropped our new year’s writing goals by now. I have. January exploded...
5 Questions to Ask When You Don't Know What's Next
I scrubbed a pot stuck with oatmeal over the kitchen sink and rolled over a business decision in my head again and again. As the hot...
5 Situations Where You Might Be Ready for a Writing Coach
I like to think of it as the $10,000 question. The question that sparked months of preparation, hundreds of running feet, and 15,000...
My Favorite 5 Step Process to Overcome Negative Emotions and Make Progress
Ever thought about the words we say to ourselves in our heads, when we know no one will ever hear or know them? Yikes. Sorry to go there....
Author's Advice: How to Feel Good Self-Publishing and Marketing Your Book
Y'all. We are in for a treat today! Lanna Andersen, my friend and self-published author of Daddy's Girl , hopped on a Zoom call with me...
5 Journal Prompts for When You Just Want to Give Up Your Writing
I debated whether or not to write this post. As writers, we often dwell on how hard this writing journey is. How lonely and arduous it...
8 Questions to Ask Yourself to Feel Good about Cutting Words
I know. Cutting words out of your manuscript is probably one of the most painful parts of this whole writing thing. You worked hard for...
How to Actually Overcome Writer's Block and Finish Your Book
I imagine you’re itching to make some writing dreams a reality. You’ve got a story to tell, an idea that won’t get out of your head. And...
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