Are you an aspiring author looking for the inspiration and information you need to develop your writing habits, get your book finished and published so that it moves the needle? Or perhaps you’re thinking about writing a memoir or business book? There’s more to it than putting words on paper (or pixels).
Here’s your blog.
3 Questions From Your Creative Brain
3 questions from your creative brain that overrule the negativity chatter from your lizard brain about whether you can write a book. "It's rarely doing the work that is hard, it's starting the work. Once you begin, it's often less painful to continue working. This is...
Writing a Book is “Extra”
Writing a book is “extra” which is why our lizard brain actively tries to prevent us from doing it. "If you're going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill A quote like this seems physically counterintuitive since, as human beings, we are programmed to...
Untangling Multiple Memoir Threads
Untangling multiple memoir threads when you life has many interesting story and lesson angles to choose from. “Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.” Dr. Joyce Brothers Dr. Joyce Brothers When writing a...
When You Get Surprise Smacked
When you get surprise smacked by giant surprise obstacles is something that every author will deal with now and again, here is how to get through it. “Knowledge is power, and it can help you overcome any fear of the unexpected. When you learn, you gain more awareness...
How Are You Learning To Be An Author?
How are you learning to be an author likely reflects how you learn new things in other parts of your life, as a novice then an expert. "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty." Henry Ford Where in your life are you an expert and where are...
Are You Ready to Write Your Memoir?
Are you ready to write your memoir means finding the courage to act imperfectly when deciding whether a life event or trauma is too recent to write about. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." Franklin D. Roosevelt From the Ink...
Fail Like a Sportsball Player
Fail like a sportsball player and all professional athletes by training your author mindset to be a high performance mindset. “I have been truly blessed with the ability to compartmentalize the many competing agendas in my mind. Because of this I can shut it off and...
My Three Words for 2023
My three words for 2023 are intended to set a daily, actionable foundation to help me reach my goals this year as an author and entrepreneur. I love the number three. My Book Blueprint clients are well aware of this fact. Therefore, why have one word to act as...
Author Lessons From George Bailey
Author lessons from George Bailey and It’s a Wonderful Life to help you identify what your book is REALLY about and reach more readers. "You've been given a great gift, George, a chance to see what the world would be like without you." 'Clarence the Angel," It's a...
