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Free Teleclass Series: Master Your Creative Productivity

March 13, 2016 by Jenna Avery Leave a Comment

Registration is now open for my free four-part Master Your Creative Productivity teleclass series that starts on Tuesday, March 15.

In the class series we’ll cover:

Powerful Tools to Help You Write Productively
The Anti-Creativity Cycle and How to Break It
Energy Strategies and “Softer” Skills to Keep You Operating at Peak Performance
Recovery Skills For Whenever (If Ever) You Get Off Track
How to Set Motivating Writing Goals & Intentions
… and much more

Find out more and register here: http://programs.calledtowrite.com/creative-productivity

I’m looking forward to “seeing” you in the class series.

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Find Your Three Big Rocks

March 3, 2016 by Jenna Avery 11 Comments

I mentioned in a recent post that I’ve written “in the past” about choosing your “three big rocks” for the year. Turns out “the past” was 2007 (!), so I thought it was worth sharing again. I believe this idea has tremendous validity in our overly busy world. Turns out, when we focus our efforts on the important things […]

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The Antidote to “Blank Page” Paralysis

February 24, 2016 by Jenna Avery Leave a Comment

Does staring at a blank page paralyze you? Here’s how you can work around it. It’s a common vision of a writer’s life. Sitting and staring at the blank page, waiting for inspiration to come. But in my opinion, it’s a terrible strategy for a certain breed of writers. From my experience working with so many […]

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5 Steps to Defining a Physical Space for Your Writing

February 18, 2016 by Jenna Avery 3 Comments

A while back I wrote a post called, “Today is the perfect day to clean your writing desk.” In that post, I mentioned one of my pals and an amazing organizer, Miriam Ortiz y Pino. Just thinking of her inspired me to ask her to write a guest post for us about organizing our writing spaces. Miriam and […]

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Enjoy Your Writing, Enjoy Your Life

February 11, 2016 by Jenna Avery Leave a Comment

I’ve been thinking a lot about happiness, enjoyment, appreciation, and gratitude lately. As someone who tends to be prone to seeing “what’s wrong with this picture”, it isn’t particularly easy for me to remember to see the positives in my life and enjoy them. I habitually look for the next thing to fix and improve upon. Then throw […]

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Five Essential Steps to Crafting Your Premise Line, Part II (Plus a Free Guidebook!)

February 2, 2016 by Jenna Avery Leave a Comment

Today we’re continuing with Part 2 of a two-part article from story consultant Jeff Lyons, author of Anatomy of a Premise Line.* In the first article, Jeff reviewed the first two steps of the process: Step 1: Identify the Core Structure of Your Story Step 2: Assess Whether You Have a Story or a Situation Now he’ll guide us through […]

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Reverse Engineer Your 2016 Writing Goals

January 27, 2016 by Jenna Avery 2 Comments

We’re closing in on the end of the first month of the year. I can’t quite believe it! Most of us started off the year with solid intentions to write. How’s that going for you? If you’re writing less than you’d like to be, this is the perfect time to make a course correction. In […]

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Five Essential Steps to Crafting Your Premise Line, Part I (Plus a Free Guidebook!)

January 21, 2016 by Jenna Avery 2 Comments

Last week I shared an interview with my colleague Jeff Lyons, master storyteller, Enneagram expert, screenwriter, novelist, and author, about his new book, Anatomy of a Premise Line: How to Master Premise and Story Development for Writing Success.* This week, I’m sharing a powerful two-part article from Jeff about HOW to craft a premise line that will […]

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Solve Your Story Problems In Advance with Jeff Lyons’ Premise Line Development Method

January 13, 2016 by Jenna Avery 3 Comments

Today I’m sharing an interview with my colleague Jeff Lyons, master storyteller, Enneagram expert, screenwriter, novelist, and author, about his new book, Anatomy of a Premise Line *. Jeff and I ran a teleclass series and workshop in 2013 about using the Enneagram for story development. In fact, he has another book coming out later this year called Rapid […]

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Intensive Starts Thursday: Fitting Writing Into Your Life

January 5, 2016 by Jenna Avery Leave a Comment

Need help fitting writing into your life? Want to get a sense of working with me? Check out this online writing intensive I’m leading this week through Screenwriter’s University — it starts on Thursday! Fitting Writing Into Your Life: Becoming a Productive Screenwriter WHEN: January 7 to 14 HOW: A weeklong intensive with a three-part online recorded video presentation and […]

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