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We’re Better Together!
Writer! Can you believe we are nearly halfway through the year?? I was just sitting at Starbucks earlier this week working on my own writing, remembering how many years ago I wrote my whole first book (Second Wind) in the Northwest corner of a Starbucks in Bellingham,...
Heads Up, Writers! Things Are Gettin’ Good! (…and ‘Mastermind Your Book’ class is cancelled this month…)
Hello Writer! OMG we coaches are SO EXCITED!! Tomorrow we launch the 2022 Nine-Month Get Your Book Done program!! Congratulations to the writers who have jumped in and said YES to getting their books done this year! We are so proud of your courage and faith in the...
Writer, Get in Your Zone of Genius
Four spots left!!! Writer, I can hardly believe we are nearly through the SECOND month of 2022! This year’s Write That Book Already conference was a blast in early January! And then we had 70 people join us for our Ready, Set, Write course, where we went over how to...
Ready, Set…WRITE!
Writer!! Welcome to 2022! Are you ready to Ready, Set...WRITE!? We at The Narrative Project started off our writerly new year with a bang by hosting another AMAZING virtual conference, Write That Book Already. (A big thanks to Lisa Dailey from Sidekick Press for...
Happy Holidays
Seasons Greetings, Writers! I wanted to take a moment at the end of this year to say CONGRATULATIONS to all of you. 2021 was (again) not an easy year for many of us, and YET you were still able to grow and write and create stories that will impact the world. Writing...
Mastermind Your Book
Once a month, TNP’s ‘Chief Story Warrior’ Cami Ostman, along with us TNP coaches and our wildly brilliant writers, collaborate to help free one of our authors from a writing PICKLE!
Oaxaca, Mexico: Travel and WRITE!
Oaxaca is alive with Mexican vibrancy, assailing my senses, reminding me the world is full of characters and plots longing to be apprehended and then expelled onto the page–Writer, if you want to inspire the Muse, take her to Oaxaca!
Exciting News You Don’t Want to Miss!
Welcome to summer, writer. This time of year for some of us it is VERY difficult to keep our butts in the chair for our writing projects. It’s been more than half a year since we gathered virtually for our Write That Book Already conference? How is your book coming?...
Writing Words That Matter
Words started revealing themselves as part of a democracy—the more widely and generously they were shared, the more power they held. That strangely enough, sometimes the simplest words could carry profound meaning.
Dear baby-writer: Go. Go. Go. Don’t stop!
I like to joke that the only sign I was meant to be a writer was all that bad poetry I wrote when I was young. This phase seemed to peak in my teens. Hard emotions percolated up to the surface right after a bad breakup or a bout of disillusionment over my disconnected...
How To Deal With Imposter Syndrome
Writer, EVERYONE feels like an imposter… until they don’t. The key to thriving in anything is to making sure your INNER CHAMPION, not your Inner Critic, is in leadership.
Ready for Some Relief from Your Inner Critic?
Writer, Cami here, your chief Story Warrior. I have a question for you. How is your writing going so far in 2021? Are you kicking @ss the way you thought you would? We are inching toward the halfway mark of the year, and you promised yourself this would be YOUR year...