Overcoming Overthinking—Take the Leap
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You Can Handle Rejection (And That’s Good Because You’ll Have To)
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How Much Should an Editor Do?
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Should Writers Use AI?
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The Ingredients for a Successful Writing Career
What makes any creative career successful is a combination of factors across key areas of an artist’s life and work.
How to Be a Better Storyteller (A Margot Robbie Master Class)
When Margot Robbie held the SmartLess podcast hosts in the palm of her hand during a recent interview as she…
Speak the Scary. Do the Scary.
Anytime we take a risk of extending ourselves, pushing our limitations, exposing our efforts in front of others, it can…
How Do You Know If You’re Ready to Query?
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5 Ways to Create Story Momentum
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Positive-training Your Creative Career
Olympic skater Alysa Liu rejected the rigid regimen imposed on her by her father and others and created her own…
The Carrot and the Stick
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Revision Isn’t Always Renovation
I had a consultation this week with an author about her current manuscript we’ve been working on together. She was…