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A Very Cool Event Put on by One of My Beloved Friends
Hi Writer, As you know, I'm passionate about your books partly because I know you have life-changing messages for your future readership. And when I come upon a resource I think will rock your world (and help you rock the world of your target audience), I want to pass...
Unlock YOUR Story! Announcing our new 6-month prompt-driven program!!
"Oh, I should get this story out of my body." "I need to get this story down so it isn't lost." "I don't know what I have to say exactly, but I've had some crazy sh!t happen to me I should write about." Have you ever had any thoughts like the above, writer? You're not...
You MUST Write Your Life!
Dear writerly friends, I'm reeling at the recent loss of a friend who died too young and who has left a void in my world. Not for the first time in the last few years have I been knocked on my ass with a loss that reiterates the reality that we have no promise of time...
Announcing: Enrollment open for our September Cohort! Do You Really Want to Write Your Book? We’ve Got Exactly What You Need!
Writer, With any dream--whether it's a dream to own a home, to run a marathon, or to WRITE A BOOK--you've got to have a plan if you REALLY want to get it done. I'll never forget a writer I knew who had a book she'd wanted to write for over a decade. She had the...
We start NEXT week! Are you jumping on the life raft with us????
Writer, I can't believe it, but we have lift off next week (Thursday, March 16!!) for our 2023 Get-Your-Book-Done Program. We've been interviewing writers since January to put together this cohort! I'm so excited to get started. And we still have a few spots open that...
Keep This Story to Yourself… only don’t!
Writer, Let me tell you a rather vulnerable story about a commitment I made to myself in the year 2000. I had just finished my grad program in family therapy and had bought a house with my then-husband, when something very unsettling happened. I met a part of myself...
How long have you been getting “ready” to write this book?
I meet writers (or would-be writers) regularly who follow what we are up to at The Narrative Project for a long while—attending our monthly mastermind classes, our Ready, Set, Write series at the beginning of the year, and even masterminding with us—but STILL tell me...
Don’t Let This Happen to YOU!
People offer a lot of reasons they don’t get their books done: Time The Inner Critic Fear of other people’s reactions Lack of know-how Other obligations I can attest to the fact, after working with writers for a few decades, that all of these things play in to keeping...
Are you really going to do this?
How's your year going? Are you making progress on your book? Writer pal, let me be honest with you. It takes a village to write a book. And most writers I know don't realize this. They think published authors have written their books alone in dark attics, emerging...
You would cry, too!
Writer, I will never forget the first time I saw my first book on a real bookstore shelf! I was 43-years-old. The names starting with “O” were on the bottom shelf, so I sat myself down on the floor, grabbed my book, held it to my face so I could smell its new-book...
Why are They So Mean to Us?!
The voices in our heads can be so stinking awful sometimes. A stuck writer I know (let's call her Sally) recently told me that the Inner Critic stopping her from getting her writing done sounded suspiciously like her mother's voice. "Let's interview that critic and...
Ready, Set, Write! Today!!
Writers, how's your writing going?? I hope the Write That Book Already conference continues to inspire you and that you're meeting your goals as we march through this first month of the year. We are super excited to see many of you tonight in the Ready, Set, Write...
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