Writing a book takes time, energy, focus, and sacrifice. You must also defeat or subdue the enemies of great writing. Here are five of them, along...
Enemies of Great Writing
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4 ½ Things You Don’t Need for a Productive Writing Session
If you’ve got plenty of time to write, this post is not for you. I’m not like that. My clients aren’t like that. We must squeeze our writing into...
Writing conversationally: why it’s hard and why it’s worth it.
For many years, I made a good portion of my income by giving speeches. Fifty or more times a year, I d hit the road to speak to an audience I'd...
Better Writing: 7 Things to Try to Improve Your Writing
"Experiment.Make it your motto day and night.Experiment, and it will lead you to the light." That's Cole Porter's advice. He wrote the song...
Better Writing: 2 Ways to Spark Inspiration
You need inspiration to do your best work. When you are inspired, you can get into the zone and produce good work. When you're not inspired, you...
ChatGPT Dos and Don’ts for Authors
Technology is neither good nor bad, but users make it so. Users always complete the innovation. When he invented the phonograph, Thomas Edison...
What you miss when ChatGPT writes your book
“Well, I guess you'll be out of a job soon!” Bill grinned and clapped me on the shoulder. “I guess people won't need help writing a book anymore....
Advice from the Writing Masters: James Clear
James Clear is the author of Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones. It's one of the best-selling...
Authors: 5 Benefits of Walking
Quick! What do Charles Dickens, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Albert Einstein have in common? They all loved to walk. So did Claude Monet, Ernest Hemingway,...
What you would do, begin it
“What you would do, begin it. Boldness has wonder, power, and magic in it.” There are several versions of that quote from Johann Wolfgang von...
