Hey, I’m a trained deep work and flow state facilitator and I write a million words a year. It’s chill. As an award-winning author with messy habits and a lazy heart, writing in flow state is everything to me. Here’s an informal guide to how… Read More »Flow State Writing (My Chill Million Words a Year)
(3 min read.) Ok, here’s my real tea on the writer-reader relationship. I’ll give you four practical rules to write by at the end, but first I need to explain why they matter. The Core Writer-Reader Relationship Your reader owes you nothing and you owe… Read More »Nailing the Writer-Reader Relationship
(3 min read.) I’m not an artist. I can’t draw for squat. I draw like a first-grade kid in art class who’s about to get a D+. Last week I was a very successful visual artist. Here’s what happened and how it applies to writing.… Read More »How to Let Go of Perfectionism: a Pig Who Farts
Sometimes you want to get to the root causes of procrastination (anxiety, trauma, ADHD, hexed at birth by a local demon who your great-grandmother annoyed under a full moon) but sometimes you just wanna get the f*ck to work. There’s More than One Way to… Read More »55 Ways to Stop Procrastination (and Write it Now)
(5 min read.) Here’s the advice I give most often in my sessions as a private writing coach. Ten little ideas, some practical and a few theoretical. Wrote ‘em up as neat as I could because sharing is caring. They’re also the ten things I… Read More »10 Tips a Private Writing Coach Wants You to Know