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Build a solid writing habit

• Building a habit
• When to write and when to call it a day
• The trap we all fall into
• Why I’m not interested in resolutions or themes or chains
• How to make writing a whole lot easier

Get inspired to write

• Live by desire, not mood
• Why do we write?
• Why it requires courage to write
• How to find your true stories

Honor your calling to write

• If this was your wake up call, what would it be?
• When are you a writer?
• Going pro
• Only you can kill your dream
• If someone offered you 10 million dollars with only one small catch, would you take it?

Get started writing (again)

• What to do when you want to write but you’re not writing
• 7 tips for staying motivated by self-created deadlines
• 5 secrets to harness the power of your calendar
• Getting into the creative zone

Overcome creative blocks

• Writer’s block: Does it exist?
• Fighting writing resistance
• Why we procrastinate, especially about the stuff that really matters
• Stop buying stuff and do the work
• Failure, zombies, and Steven Pressfield

Recover from creative burnout

• When you have nothing left
• 7 steps to recovering from creative burnout
• Creating a cycle of creative renewal

The inner game of writing

• Do you have accomplishment amnesia?
• For the days when you feel like a fraud
• Surprise! Objections are your friends
• How to spot the smokescreens that stop you from writing
• Learning from endings

Get unstuck

• 10 tips to get unstuck and write more now
• Take action on what you know

Make the most of being highly sensitive

• Is there a link between sensitivity and creativity?
• On being highly sensitive
• When you feel like you don’t belong
• Are you a sensitive called to the spotlight?

Manage your spotlight fears

• Are you called to the spotlight?
• The deep vulnerability of being seen creatively
• Stop your tomato fears from stopping you
• Getting comfortable with being seen, heard and read
• Getting comfortable with being seen, heard, and read, Part 2

Explore getting up early to write

• Write first thing in the morning? Are you crazy?
• Why I’ve been getting up at 6 a.m. every morning
• Intriguing side effects of getting up at o’ dark hundred

Manage distractions

• Unplugged.
• Minding my own business (managing the distractions so I can focus on my life, my kids, and my writing)
• Getting a handle on the online distractions that keep you from writing
• The results of my online detox experiment and how it has affected my writing

Other columns

• Sci-Fi Circuit — my sci-fi column on Script Mag
• Get a New Story — my writing habit column on Script Mag