The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience

How Chief Content Officer Sonia Simone Writes

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Coral-coiffed marketer and prolific online publisher Sonia Simone stopped by the show this week to share her writing secrets with us.

Ms. Simone is co-founder and Chief Content Officer of Copyblogger Media as well as an educator, speaker, and the devious mastermind behind the podcast Confessions of a Pink-Haired Marketer.

Sonia appeared in the written series over on Copyblogger.com and stopped by again to drop some writerly wisdom on us.

You can also see Sonia Simone live at Authority Rainmaker, a carefully designed live educational experience that presents a complete and effective online marketing strategy to help you immediately accelerate your business.

In addition to Ms. Simone you ll have the opportunity to see Dan Pink, Sally Hogshead, Ann Handley, punk legend Henry Rollins, and many other incredible speakers live. Get all the details at rainmaker.fm/event, and we look forward to seeing you in Denver, Colorado, May 13th, 2015.

In this 18-minute file Sonia Simone and I discuss:

  • Why You Should Read Outside Your Echo Chamber
  • Sonia s Secret of Reading the Tea Leaves
  • Writer s Block Vs. Deadlines
  • Productivity for Flakes, Head Cases, and Other Natural Disasters
  • The Fetishization of Creativity
  • Sonia Admits Her Most Unwholesome Writer s Addiction
  • Why the More You Care, the More You ll Write

    • The Show Notes

    • Here s How Sonia Simone Writes
    • Copyblogger.com
    • The Authority Community
    • Are You a Talented Professional Writer? Read This
    • Copyblogger Media Certified Content Marketers
    • Confessions of a Pink-Haired Marketer
    • Productivity for Flakes, Head Cases, and Other Natural Disasters
    • Authority Intensive, May 13-15 in Denver, Colorado
    • Sonia on Twitter
    • Kelton Reid on Twitter

      • Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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