Creative Frustration

Creative Frustration

Feel like you’ve hit a wall with your writing? Congratulations. Breaking through that irritating, scary, and oh so challenging creative frustration could be your next step to brilliance. So power through and keep going.
Realistic Writing Expectations

Realistic Writing Expectations

How realistic are your writing expectations? “I will write 2,500 words a week,” one of my writing coach clients assured me. I had heard this before. “I love your enthusiasm, but considering what’s happening at work and the fact that...
Are You Courting Writer’s Block?

Are You Courting Writer’s Block?

After some of the most stressful months I can recall, I’m pushing hard on a book deadline just as new and returning clients are calling, emailing and knocking on my door. Don’t they know it’s summer? Seriously, I’m delighted about both the book...

A Writer’s Worst Enemy

The forensic artist below draws individuals based on their descriptions of themselves, and then again based on the description that someone they’ve just met provides them. As you’ll see, most of us are far more beautiful in real life than how we perceive...

Brainstorming

As a literature major at the University of California, Santa Cruz I would regularly meet with other students to discuss themes in the books we had been assigned to read. We’d get together in small study groups and explore what the author was trying to say along with...