Why Most Writing Courses Aren’t Worth the Money (and How to Create One That Is)
Because wordsmiths are getting hit with so many storms at once (e.g., AI slop, publishers cutting staff due to losses of ad revenue, etc.), the golden piece of advice in the writing industry has become...
The Biggest Mistake I’ve Ever Made in Writing
I've been writing now for more than two decades. Mistakes? I've made 'em plenty. But out of everything, there's nothing I regret more than not personally networking to a greater degree. Watch/Subscribe Why I went...
The Best “Extra” Thing to Study as a Writer
If you get to know me a little, you quickly learn that most of my free time (if I have five minutes) is spent within psychology. This is both informal (e.g., YouTube videos from licensed...
Why Creating a Simple Spreadsheet Helps With Platform Building
Especially now, success as a writer unfortunately isn’t about the quality of your work — it’s about being able to prove to a publisher that they’ll get sales and a good ROI. That’s why there’s...
Why Collaboration Can Be Dangerous for Writers (and How to Do It Well)
People traditionally see writing as a “lonely” art where we put words to the page by ourselves in a corner somewhere, but many authors work together all the time — we use collaboration just like...
Who You Are and How You Write
Who are you? It's the kind of question you'd expect more at a therapy appointment than a writer's conference or webinar. But your sense of self invariably connects to what and how you express on...
What Is an “Author Platform?”
What's a book (or other writing) without an author platform? What even IS an author platform? 🤔🤔🤔 We tend to think of author platform in terms of social media and followers. That's PART of it....
About Your Reader Count…
Writers, we need to talk about your reader count. We all want to measure that. It's a lot like social media, where lots of followers implies you're resonating with people. But it's also a perception...
