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Really Quite Helpful Creative Writing Tips

Writing coach Megan Cohen is a white cis woman with soft femme hair. She wears a black tee shirt and stands against a white wall. She smiles gently with warm eyes. Her skin is amazing even though she's middle-aged.

These (hopefully) really quite helpful creative writing tips offer what I’ve learned as an award-winning author who writes a million words a year, and as a private writing coach serving writers at all experience levels.

If you have a particular writing question, contact me on socials or by email and maybe I’ll blog an answer for you!

xo Megan Cohen

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55 Ways to Stop Procrastination (for Writers and Everyone)

Sometimes you want to get to the root causes of procrastination (anxiety, trauma, hexed at birth by a local demon who your great-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

Flow State Writing (My Chill Million Words a Year)

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 I do it, plus some tips for….. read more

10 Tips a Private Writing Coach Wants You to Know

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 tell…. read more

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