There are so many tips, tricks, hacks, and empty promises online for how to radically grow your business overnight. Many social media influencers, entrepreneurs, and motivational speakers will promise you exponential success—if only you will like, subscribe, ring that bell, and sign up for their latest course! It can leave you feeling duped, like there …
There is a lot of criticism floating around (like that annoying, sticky yellow pollen that ruins summer for a lot of us) about self-publishing being less legitimate than traditionally published books. Many naysayers (how many of them have published anything, self or traditional?) claim that all self-publishing really means is that your writing wasn’t good …
You’ve probably read all the encouraging advice that claims you have a unique story in you that only you can tell! Yeah, yeah, right? When you’re suffering from a decades-long (or is it just me??) case of writer’s block, it’s hard to believe that a best-selling story is burning a hole in your chest. But …
Most unpublished writers lack self-confidence more than they lack writing skills. The truth is that most people who feel they were born to write, have a certain degree of natural ability. What’s holding most of us back isn’t that we’re not good with sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, syntax, or anything related to our English or …
The inspirational story of Watership Down writer, Richard Adams Do you often wonder if your author ship has sailed, so to speak? Like, what if you’re just too old to write the book you’ve always imagined on the shelves at Barnes & Noble? Well, the good new is, many writers got their first crack at …
Some literary critics (snobs?) reject Stephen King as a serious novelist. Oh, they don’t deny he’s popular, or that he’s published 64 novels and 200 short stories. There’s enough data to back all of that up, right? They just poo-poo the horror genre. Maybe you do, too. But we certainly can’t deny that King is …
Have you ever read the novel, Still Alice, by Lisa Genova? It’s the story of 50-year old Alice, a Harvard professor, who begins to descend into early onset Alzheimer’s. It’s a beautiful book that was successfully adapted into a film starring Julianne Moore, who won an Academy Award for her performance. The book and film …
Sometimes, if you’re anything like me, you just need a quick little soundbite, a pearl of wisdom, a little sign to keep writing. You suffer from the terrible ailments of procrastination, self-doubt, self-loathing, laziness, and daydreaming. The only way to really get over any of that is to write. It’s not a sexy answer, I …
Do you ever wonder if it’s too late to fulfill your author dreams? I know I have pondered that thought dozens (OK, hundreds) of times over the years. I realize it’s an excuse, but the fear is still real! For a helpful injection of inspiration, check out the list of authors below who found literary …