Write Brain

Sometimes no one else can do a better job of sabotaging your confidence, your ideas, your energy, than you. So maybe figure out some ways to stop doing that? Or figure out why you're doing it in the first place?

How to maximize your productivity by choosing the best time of day to work in, and how to figure out what your best time of day is.

How to separate different tasks to help remember what helps you get your work done and what helps you get your work out. Ex: Social media doesn't meet your deadline.

There is no security in the writing business. Writing to trends is the most dangerous thing of all because it means that if you fail to sell the book, you've truly wasted the chance to write a book that means something to you. We only have a short number of years as writers when we're at our peak. I beg you to use those years for only books that are your best.

Virginia Woolf argued that a writer needs a "room of her own." Not every writer can manage that, but you can figure out how to create a safe space to create in, just for you. Think about what level of noise you can manage to work in, how badly interruptions bother you, and the beauty you want around you. But also consider how people around you can be safe spaces to create around.

You think you've just wasted four months of your life because you deleted everything you wrote during that time. Nothing is ever wasted. You're taking what you learned with you, and it's not just mistakes.

Failure is the most important part of success. If you can't let yourself fail, you're going to keep yourself from most of your capacity for success.

We all need fallow time, time to regroup and to find our creativity again after a difficult project is finally finished. How to let yourself accept that you need time, what to do in that time, and how you know when it's time to come back.

When you were starting out, all you wanted was to sell one book. But as soon as you sold it, you wanted a bigger advance, more marketing money, and starred reviews.

There are things you can do that keep your artistic soul happy and things you can do to kill it. I discuss both here.