by Cami Ostman | Mar 8, 2023 | Classes and groups, Events, Inspiration |
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...
by Cami Ostman | Mar 1, 2023 | Classes and groups, Events, Inspiration |
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...
by Cami Ostman | Feb 26, 2023 | Classes and groups, Events, Inspiration |
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...
by Cami Ostman | Feb 22, 2023 | Classes and groups, Events, Inspiration |
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...
by Cami Ostman | Feb 20, 2023 | Classes and groups, Inspiration, Writing advice |
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,...
by Cami Ostman | Feb 16, 2023 | Inspiration |
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...